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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Medger Evers
Normandy
World War I
William 'Boss' Tweed
2. American painter from 1920's
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3. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Prohibition
Rosa Parks
8th Amendment
Spanish - American War
4. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Cattle Drives
Transcontinental railroad
Great Compromise
court packing
5. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Jonas Salk
Pearl Harbor
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cesar Chavez
6. Alternate term for 1920's.
Columbian Exchange
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Jazz Age
Rosa Parks
7. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
U.S.S. Maine
Yellow Journalism
Immigration
8. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Lyndon B. Johnson
William H. Taft
court packing
9. Abolished the poll tax.
24th Amendment
14th Amendment
Bracero Program
Henry Ford
10. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Transcontinental railroad
24th Amendment
7th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
11. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Jonas Salk
Reynolds v. Sims
William H. Taft
5th Amendment
12. Established the federal income tax.
Elvis Presley
16th Amendment
8th Amendment
Checks and Balances
13. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Berlin Airlift
Korean War
3rd Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
14. Power is shared between the states and national government.
5th Amendment
The War on Poverty
Federalism
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
15. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Spanish - American War
Georgia O'Keefe
Prohibition
Joe McCarthy
16. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Berlin Wall
6th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Social Darwinism
17. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
U-2 Incident
Henry Ford
Neil Armstrong
Checks and Balances
18. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Malcolm X
26th Amendment
The Great Migration
1st Amendment
19. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
GI Bill
George Wallace
Barbed wire
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Douglas MacArthur
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
WPA
Jonas Salk
21. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Plessy v. Ferguson
Manifest Destiny
Harry S. Truman
Social Darwinism
22. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Miranda v. Arizona
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
court packing
15th Amendment
23. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
King George III
Domino Theory
John J. Pershing
16th Amendment
24. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Federalist Papers
Federalism
Shirley Chisholm
Laissez Faire
25. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Free Enterprise Economy
U-2 Incident
19thAmendment
Cattle Drives
26. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Nullification Crisis
1st Amendment
19thAmendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
27. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Neil Armstrong
The Articles of Confederation
Andrew Carnegie
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
28. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
William H. Taft
Medger Evers
Upton Sinclair
Omar Bradley
29. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
William 'Boss' Tweed
10th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
The Little Rock Nine
30. The right to vote for women.
19thAmendment
Containment
court packing
Laissez Faire
31. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Woodrow Wilson
Tenements
Marshall Plan (1948)
Free Enterprise Economy
32. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Rough Riders
Flappers
Separation of Powers
Political machines
33. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Cattle Drives
Bobby Kennedy
Samuel Adams
Clarence Darrow
34. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Malcolm X
Thomas Paine
Booker T. Washington
Korean War
35. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
GI Bill
Brown v. Board of Education
Dust Bowl
Political machines
36. Separation by race.
18th Amendment
Segregation
Checks and Balances
Theodore Roosevelt
37. No unlawful search and seizure.
John F. Kennedy
4th Amendment
Rough Riders
Pearl Harbor
38. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Urbanization
Jim Crow laws
6th Amendment
39. Movement of people into a country from another country.
14th Amendment
Imperialism
Immigration
Reynolds v. Sims
40. Trial by jury.
The Baby Boom
Flappers
Jacob Riis
7th Amendment
41. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
NATO (1959)
Sputnik
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Scopes Trial
42. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Nullification Crisis
Malcolm X
Transcontinental railroad
43. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Bill of Rights
Berlin Airlift
Spanish - American War
Thomas Paine
44. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marshall Plan (1948)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jacob Riis
45. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Elvis Presley
Thomas Paine
Island hopping
Flappers
46. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Spanish - American War
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Political machines
47. 1939 - 1945
World War II
The New Deal
John F. Kennedy
Flappers
48. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Brown v. Board of Education
1st Amendment
World War II
Lyndon B. Johnson
49. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Social Darwinism
U.S.S. Maine
Berlin Wall
50. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Fidel Castro
6th Amendment
Dust Bowl
Fourteen Points