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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Transcontinental railroad
Richard M. Nixon
Yellow Journalism
George Wallace
2. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Berlin Wall
Reynolds v. Sims
The Little Rock Nine
WEB DuBois
3. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
U.S.S. Maine
Clarence Darrow
Nikita Kruschev
Tenements
4. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Federalist Papers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
5. The right to a fast and public trial.
Rough Riders
FDIC
6th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
6. Right to bear arms
Malcolm X
Clarence Darrow
2nd Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
7. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Segregation
Malcolm X
WEB DuBois
Cuban Missile Crisis
8. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Battle of Midway
Charles Lindbergh
Ronald Reagan
The Little Rock Nine
9. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Gloria Steinem
Federalism
Nullification Crisis
World War II
10. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Bay of Pigs
Clarence Darrow
FDIC
9th Amendment
11. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Watergate
Baker v. Carr
Bobby Kennedy
Tenements
12. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Booker T. Washington
The Articles of Confederation
Laissez Faire
Homestead Act
13. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Thomas Jefferson
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Battle of Midway
Lyndon B. Johnson
14. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Muckrakers
Malcolm X
24th Amendment
15. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Cesar Chavez
Bay of Pigs
Urbanization
Baker v. Carr
16. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Great Society
Yellow Journalism
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Thomas Paine
17. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Scopes Trial
Fidel Castro
Teapot Dome Scandal
Immigration
18. Abolished slavery
Nikita Kruschev
13th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
19. Abolished the poll tax.
24th Amendment
17th Amendment
Populism
Red Scare
20. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Jim Crow laws
Neil Armstrong
U.S.S. Maine
FDIC
21. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Miranda v. Arizona
Yellow Journalism
Domino Theory
7th Amendment
22. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
The New Deal
Berlin Airlift
Barbed wire
Laissez Faire
23. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
League of Nations
The Articles of Confederation
Great Society
Spanish - American War
24. Rights reserved to the people.
14th Amendment
Tenements
Korean War
9th Amendment
25. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Federalist Papers
John J. Pershing
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Ronald Reagan
26. Movement of people into a country from another country.
The Baby Boom
The Rosenberg's
Immigration
Miranda v. Arizona
27. Sets a term limit for the President
Prohibition
Fourteen Points
19thAmendment
22nd Amendment
28. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Great Compromise
16th Amendment
Dawes Act
29. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
17th Amendment
SEC
Laissez Faire
Gloria Steinem
30. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
16th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
Georgia O'Keefe
Bay of Pigs
31. United Farm Workers activist
Ronald Reagan
World War II
Cesar Chavez
Checks and Balances
32. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
WEB DuBois
Berlin Airlift
Federalism
1st Amendment
33. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Reynolds v. Sims
Thomas Paine
14th Amendment
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Transcontinental railroad
Pearl Harbor
The Harlem Renaissance
Sacco and Vanzetti
35. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
John J. Pershing
Great Society
Omar Bradley
Checks and Balances
36. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Great Compromise
Escobedo v. Illinois
John F. Kennedy
22nd Amendment
37. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
4th Amendment
26th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
FDIC
38. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Viet Nam
King George III
The Harlem Renaissance
Columbian Exchange
39. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
The Little Rock Nine
World War I
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Treaty of Versailles
40. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Watergate
George Washington
Cuban Missile Crisis
41. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Red Scare
15th Amendment
42. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Abraham Lincoln
Miranda v. Arizona
The War on Poverty
43. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
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44. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Omar Bradley
13th Amendment
Dust Bowl
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
45. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Jim Crow laws
Upton Sinclair
Malcolm X
Treaty of Versailles
46. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Bay of Pigs
Command Economy
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Social Darwinism
47. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Treaty of Versailles
FDIC
World War II
48. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Command Economy
John F. Kennedy
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Dawes Act
49. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Great Compromise
Rough Riders
GI Bill
Manifest Destiny
50. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
The Articles of Confederation
Henry Ford
Calvin Coolidge
Tenements