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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. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
26th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
The War on Poverty
2. Rights reserved to the people.
The Articles of Confederation
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Sacco and Vanzetti
9th Amendment
3. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
SEC
Checks and Balances
Susan B. Anthony
Medger Evers
4. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Watergate
Separation of Powers
Muckrakers
15th Amendment
5. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Thomas Jefferson
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Containment
Escobedo v. Illinois
6. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Booker T. Washington
FDIC
24th Amendment
Pearl Harbor
7. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
The Jazz Age
24th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
William H. Taft
8. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Samuel Adams
Imperialism
Elvis Presley
U.S.S. Maine
9. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Federalism
League of Nations
Rough Riders
FDIC
10. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Dust Bowl
Brown v. Board of Education
Marshall Plan (1948)
Fourteen Points
11. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Pearl Harbor
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Prohibition
12. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Free Enterprise Economy
League of Nations
Cuban Missile Crisis
Jim Crow laws
13. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Rosa Parks
The Rosenberg's
Escobedo v. Illinois
Imperialism
14. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
4th Amendment
Harry S. Truman
13th Amendment
Barbed wire
15. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Bill of Rights
Rosa Parks
Prohibition
League of Nations
16. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Thomas Paine
Homestead Act
Pearl Harbor
17. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Double V Campaign
Industrialization
Omar Bradley
King George III
18. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Federalism
Dwight D. Eisenhower
2nd Amendment
Bill of Rights
19. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Thomas Paine
Spanish - American War
Henry Ford
The Baby Boom
20. Alternate term for 1920's.
Yellow Journalism
Nullification Crisis
The Jazz Age
Richard M. Nixon
21. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
William Jennings Bryan
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Battle of Midway
Rosa Parks
22. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Emancipation Proclamation
Great Compromise
22nd Amendment
23. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Benjamin Franklin
Susan B. Anthony
Sacco and Vanzetti
Dwight D. Eisenhower
24. New York political machine boss.
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25. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Cattle Drives
Checks and Balances
Rough Riders
21st Amendment
26. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Jim Crow laws
Flappers
26th Amendment
6th Amendment
27. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Battle of Wounded Knee
WPA
Sputnik
The Harlem Renaissance
28. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
15th Amendment
Dust Bowl
SEC
29. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Prohibition
Imperialism
Trench Warfare
GI Bill
30. Movement of people into a country from another country.
19thAmendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
Joe McCarthy
Immigration
31. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Domino Theory
Red Scare
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Omar Bradley
32. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Bill of Rights
Federalism
SEC
Checks and Balances
33. Right to bear arms
The Articles of Confederation
2nd Amendment
Harry S. Truman
Dust Bowl
34. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
1st Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
Manifest Destiny
35. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The New Deal
The War on Poverty
Andrew Carnegie
Lyndon B. Johnson
36. No quartering of troops during peace time
GI Bill
Korean War
3rd Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
37. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Separation of Powers
1st Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
SEC
38. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Gideon v. Wainwright
The New Deal
10th Amendment
Segregation
39. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
22nd Amendment
Social Darwinism
Henry Ford
Nullification Crisis
40. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Imperialism
John J. Pershing
Command Economy
Martin Luther King Jr
41. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Industrialization
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
William Jennings Bryan
42. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
Medger Evers
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Woodrow Wilson
43. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
John Scopes
Bill of Rights
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Richard M. Nixon
44. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
15th Amendment
Homestead Act
Muckrakers
Nikita Kruschev
45. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
U-2 Incident
Gideon v. Wainwright
SEC
14th Amendment
46. President 1961-63
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Korean War
Watergate
John F. Kennedy
47. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Berlin Wall
24th Amendment
Korean War
Thomas Paine
48. Early rock n ' roll performer
Booker T. Washington
1st Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Elvis Presley
49. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tenements
Neil Armstrong
Warren G. Harding
Upton Sinclair
50. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Korean War
Joe McCarthy
24th Amendment
Separation of Powers