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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
4th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
Douglas MacArthur
Samuel Adams
2. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
Malcolm X
Nullification Crisis
Ronald Reagan
3. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
8th Amendment
Laissez Faire
Booker T. Washington
4. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
FDIC
Medger Evers
Battle of Wounded Knee
William H. Taft
5. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Scopes Trial
The Rosenberg's
Domino Theory
6. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Checks and Balances
Martin Luther King Jr
Free Enterprise Economy
U-2 Incident
7. Rights reserved to the people.
Cuban Missile Crisis
9th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
Pearl Harbor
8. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
1st Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
26th Amendment
Rough Riders
9. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
U.S.S. Maine
Federalist Papers
Watergate
Escobedo v. Illinois
10. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Rosenberg's
24th Amendment
Tenements
11. American painter from 1920's
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12. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Medger Evers
Jonas Salk
Reconstruction
4th Amendment
13. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Muckrakers
Battle of Midway
Benjamin Franklin
Great Compromise
14. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
WPA
Populism
Teapot Dome Scandal
Social Darwinism
15. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
The Jazz Age
Homestead Act
Pearl Harbor
16. 1914 - 1918
Teapot Dome Scandal
Harry S. Truman
Warren G. Harding
World War I
17. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Cuban Missile Crisis
Plessy v. Ferguson
League of Nations
18. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
24th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
18th Amendment
19. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Command Economy
14th Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
20. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
SEC
The Articles of Confederation
Malcolm X
21. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dust Bowl
Columbian Exchange
Gloria Steinem
22. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Berlin Wall
Lyndon B. Johnson
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Viet Nam
23. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
King George III
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Berlin Wall
24. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Muckrakers
The Little Rock Nine
Alfred Thayer Mahan
10th Amendment
25. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Harry S. Truman
Checks and Balances
Viet Nam
Imperialism
26. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Samuel Adams
Treaty of Versailles
The Rosenberg's
WPA
27. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Elvis Presley
Jim Crow laws
14th Amendment
Bracero Program
28. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Imperialism
The Scopes Trial
Checks and Balances
The Baby Boom
29. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
22nd Amendment
8th Amendment
Sputnik
Richard M. Nixon
30. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Benjamin Franklin
Martin Luther King Jr
17th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
31. No cruel or unusual punishment.
17th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
Viet Nam
8th Amendment
32. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Homestead Act
4th Amendment
1st Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
33. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Brown v. Board of Education
court packing
Clarence Darrow
Korean War
34. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Bay of Pigs
Pearl Harbor
Urbanization
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Industrialization
14th Amendment
Separation of Powers
Civil War
36. Established the federal income tax.
16th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Fidel Castro
37. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
George Washington
The War on Poverty
Industrialization
Dawes Act
38. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Red Scare
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Neil Armstrong
Korean War
39. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Hoovervilles
Civil War
Miranda v. Arizona
Fidel Castro
40. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Barbed wire
Theodore Roosevelt
16th Amendment
41. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Double V Campaign
Gideon v. Wainwright
Fourteen Points
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
42. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Federalism
The Holocaust
Emancipation Proclamation
Baker v. Carr
43. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
9th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
44. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Abraham Lincoln
William 'Boss' Tweed
Rosa Parks
45. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Holocaust
Checks and Balances
22nd Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
46. No unlawful search and seizure.
26th Amendment
Checks and Balances
4th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
47. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Cesar Chavez
Abraham Lincoln
George Wallace
Korean War
48. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
26th Amendment
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Viet Nam
49. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
George Wallace
Rosa Parks
Jacob Riis
Marshall Plan (1948)
50. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Omar Bradley
Brown v. Board of Education
Bay of Pigs
14th Amendment