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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
16th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Jacob Riis
Pearl Harbor
2. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Rosa Parks
Warren G. Harding
Manifest Destiny
Flappers
3. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Charles Lindbergh
Sacco and Vanzetti
19thAmendment
Nikita Kruschev
4. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
GI Bill
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Battle of Midway
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
5. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
The Harlem Renaissance
Marshall Plan (1948)
court packing
9th Amendment
6. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
GI Bill
Domino Theory
League of Nations
The Rosenberg's
7. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
George Wallace
Upton Sinclair
Hoovervilles
Booker T. Washington
8. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Nullification Crisis
Fourteen Points
FDIC
SEC
9. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Homestead Act
Industrialization
George Washington
10. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
John J. Pershing
Yellow Journalism
Separation of Powers
John F. Kennedy
11. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pearl Harbor
6th Amendment
12. 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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13. Invented the vaccine for polio
Malcolm X
15th Amendment
Spanish - American War
Jonas Salk
14. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Double V Campaign
Douglas MacArthur
Federalist Papers
Henry Ford
15. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
The Scopes Trial
Samuel Adams
Command Economy
Cattle Drives
16. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Calvin Coolidge
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Bay of Pigs
court packing
17. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Flappers
26th Amendment
U-2 Incident
Jim Crow laws
18. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Malcolm X
Booker T. Washington
John J. Pershing
Jacob Riis
19. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Flappers
The New Deal
Henry Ford
20. Early rock n ' roll performer
Teapot Dome Scandal
Industrialization
16th Amendment
Elvis Presley
21. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Rosa Parks
Sacco and Vanzetti
Federalism
Domino Theory
22. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
The Little Rock Nine
Teapot Dome Scandal
Social Darwinism
Lyndon B. Johnson
23. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Reconstruction
Shirley Chisholm
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Laissez Faire
24. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
17th Amendment
Industrialization
court packing
Jim Crow laws
25. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Barbed wire
Viet Nam
Great Society
Upton Sinclair
26. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Richard M. Nixon
Bracero Program
Spanish - American War
Lyndon B. Johnson
27. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Martin Luther King Jr
Flappers
Great Compromise
Homestead Act
28. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Charles Lindbergh
21st Amendment
Berlin Wall
Calvin Coolidge
29. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Berlin Wall
The Harlem Renaissance
2nd Amendment
Tenements
30. No quartering of troops during peace time
U.S.S. Maine
3rd Amendment
Marshall Plan (1948)
Urbanization
31. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
24th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
22nd Amendment
Columbian Exchange
32. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Pearl Harbor
15th Amendment
Command Economy
Segregation
33. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Great Society
8th Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
Alfred Thayer Mahan
34. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Lyndon B. Johnson
14th Amendment
19thAmendment
Muckrakers
35. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Jacob Riis
The Baby Boom
The Holocaust
36. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Domino Theory
Prohibition
Populism
37. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Containment
Bill of Rights
Jacob Riis
Command Economy
38. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
League of Nations
Emancipation Proclamation
Normandy
Jonas Salk
39. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
World War II
Elvis Presley
Berlin Airlift
Joe McCarthy
40. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
21st Amendment
SEC
Battle of Midway
Lyndon B. Johnson
41. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
Susan B. Anthony
Columbian Exchange
John F. Kennedy
42. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Henry Ford
Warren G. Harding
Double V Campaign
John F. Kennedy
43. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Clarence Darrow
13th Amendment
King George III
Theodore Roosevelt
44. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Henry Ford
U.S.S. Maine
7th Amendment
William H. Taft
45. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
10th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Cattle Drives
WEB DuBois
46. President of the US during the Civil War.
Bracero Program
5th Amendment
Hoovervilles
Abraham Lincoln
47. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Double V Campaign
Bracero Program
21st Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
48. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Nikita Kruschev
Containment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
World War I
49. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Bobby Kennedy
Andrew Carnegie
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
50. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Rosa Parks
Battle of Wounded Knee
Neil Armstrong
WPA