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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
William H. Taft
22nd Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
World War II
2. Founding father - politician - scientist
Benjamin Franklin
William 'Boss' Tweed
Bobby Kennedy
Battle of Wounded Knee
3. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
24th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
7th Amendment
Political machines
4. 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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5. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Jacob Riis
Richard M. Nixon
9th Amendment
GI Bill
6. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
Reconstruction
2nd Amendment
Prohibition
7. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Flappers
Bobby Kennedy
Brown v. Board of Education
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
8. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Nullification Crisis
The New Deal
Flappers
Joe McCarthy
9. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Free Enterprise Economy
Elvis Presley
Cuban Missile Crisis
10. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Hoovervilles
The Harlem Renaissance
Andrew Carnegie
GI Bill
11. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Viet Nam
World War I
12. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Watergate
Korean War
15th Amendment
18th Amendment
13. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Rough Riders
King George III
The Holocaust
Imperialism
14. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Prohibition
Federalist Papers
Flappers
Gideon v. Wainwright
15. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Articles of Confederation
Rosa Parks
Fourteen Points
Thomas Paine
16. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Lyndon B. Johnson
Booker T. Washington
2nd Amendment
17. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Shirley Chisholm
Miranda v. Arizona
Federalism
Battle of Wounded Knee
18. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Woodrow Wilson
Truman Doctrine (1947)
13th Amendment
Spanish - American War
19. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Sputnik
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Nikita Kruschev
Muckrakers
20. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Jacob Riis
Bay of Pigs
NATO (1959)
Imperialism
21. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
26th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
The Little Rock Nine
22. The prohibition of alcohol.
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
2nd Amendment
18th Amendment
23. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Douglas MacArthur
U-2 Incident
22nd Amendment
William H. Taft
24. President of the US during the Civil War.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Little Rock Nine
Lyndon B. Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
25. President during Roaring 20's
Calvin Coolidge
5th Amendment
John J. Pershing
Harry S. Truman
26. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Red Scare
Berlin Airlift
Separation of Powers
Thomas Paine
27. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
4th Amendment
King George III
SEC
Free Enterprise Economy
28. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
Double V Campaign
Elvis Presley
Federalism
29. New York political machine boss.
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30. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Yellow Journalism
Henry Ford
31. Established the federal income tax.
16th Amendment
Red Scare
Bay of Pigs
George Wallace
32. 1914 - 1918
Rough Riders
World War I
Bobby Kennedy
Pearl Harbor
33. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Bracero Program
15th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
Harry S. Truman
34. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Ronald Reagan
Laissez Faire
Brown v. Board of Education
The New Deal
35. Communist leader of Cuba.
3rd Amendment
Fidel Castro
Political machines
Sacco and Vanzetti
36. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Gloria Steinem
Bracero Program
Samuel Adams
Federalist Papers
37. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Pearl Harbor
Double V Campaign
Truman Doctrine (1947)
38. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
The Little Rock Nine
Yellow Journalism
Teapot Dome Scandal
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
39. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
U.S.S. Maine
John F. Kennedy
17th Amendment
Dust Bowl
40. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
Pearl Harbor
Berlin Wall
Ronald Reagan
41. Abolished the poll tax.
24th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
Rough Riders
13th Amendment
42. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Rough Riders
Prohibition
Omar Bradley
43. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Clarence Darrow
Viet Nam
Emancipation Proclamation
William Jennings Bryan
44. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Abraham Lincoln
Upton Sinclair
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Fourteen Points
45. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Warren G. Harding
Federalist Papers
Elvis Presley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
46. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Abraham Lincoln
16th Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
Douglas MacArthur
47. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Warren G. Harding
Pearl Harbor
2nd Amendment
Manifest Destiny
48. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1st Amendment
Domino Theory
Charles Lindbergh
The Harlem Renaissance
49. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
John Scopes
Muckrakers
Upton Sinclair
Reynolds v. Sims
50. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Susan B. Anthony
Viet Nam
Prohibition
Jacob Riis