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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. Trial by jury.
18th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
7th Amendment
Cattle Drives
2. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Industrialization
Battle of Wounded Knee
Battle of Midway
3. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
The Harlem Renaissance
Samuel Adams
Gloria Steinem
Red Scare
4. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
John Scopes
Federalist Papers
Brown v. Board of Education
Emancipation Proclamation
5. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Emancipation Proclamation
Imperialism
Political machines
George Wallace
6. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
Cattle Drives
Abraham Lincoln
7. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Spanish - American War
Island hopping
Watergate
Populism
8. Alternate term for 1920's.
7th Amendment
26th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
The Jazz Age
9. Power is shared between the states and national government.
The Rosenberg's
Federalism
George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
10. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
Federalism
9th Amendment
William 'Boss' Tweed
11. American painter from 1920's
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12. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Barbed wire
Baker v. Carr
Political machines
13. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
The Articles of Confederation
24th Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
Treaty of Versailles
14. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Rosa Parks
15th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
The New Deal
15. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Great Migration
Escobedo v. Illinois
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Pearl Harbor
16. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Articles of Confederation
Industrialization
Prohibition
The Harlem Renaissance
17. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
SEC
Great Compromise
18. 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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19. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Sputnik
15th Amendment
17th Amendment
Laissez Faire
20. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Shirley Chisholm
Andrew Carnegie
Cuban Missile Crisis
21. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
6th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Berlin Wall
22. No quartering of troops during peace time
Great Society
Abraham Lincoln
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
3rd Amendment
23. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
SEC
Upton Sinclair
Rough Riders
24. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
Flappers
Yellow Journalism
William 'Boss' Tweed
25. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Federalism
Benjamin Franklin
Normandy
26. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Clarence Darrow
Charles Lindbergh
Jonas Salk
27. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
WPA
21st Amendment
15th Amendment
Sputnik
28. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Fourteen Points
8th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
29. Established the federal income tax.
William H. Taft
Transcontinental railroad
16th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
30. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Theodore Roosevelt
The Great Migration
3rd Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
31. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Red Scare
Thomas Jefferson
Medger Evers
Omar Bradley
32. President during Roaring 20's
Emancipation Proclamation
Calvin Coolidge
SEC
Theodore Roosevelt
33. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Martin Luther King Jr
21st Amendment
The Rosenberg's
The Little Rock Nine
34. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
16th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
Fidel Castro
35. President of the US during the Civil War.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Free Enterprise Economy
Miranda v. Arizona
Abraham Lincoln
36. 1939 - 1945
World War II
The Harlem Renaissance
Reconstruction
Joe McCarthy
37. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X
Prohibition
The Great Migration
Social Darwinism
38. The right to vote for women.
Baker v. Carr
Abraham Lincoln
19thAmendment
Brown v. Board of Education
39. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
Barbed wire
15th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
40. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
8th Amendment
Rough Riders
Gideon v. Wainwright
World War I
41. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Columbian Exchange
Island hopping
42. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Dust Bowl
Battle of Wounded Knee
21st Amendment
43. Founding father - politician - scientist
Containment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
King George III
Benjamin Franklin
44. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Brown v. Board of Education
15th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
Manifest Destiny
45. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Laissez Faire
Great Society
13th Amendment
Jim Crow laws
46. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Civil War
18th Amendment
Berlin Wall
Calvin Coolidge
47. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
Abraham Lincoln
19thAmendment
FDIC
48. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
24th Amendment
court packing
Treaty of Versailles
U-2 Incident
49. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Columbian Exchange
The Harlem Renaissance
Imperialism
Upton Sinclair
50. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Plessy v. Ferguson
NATO (1959)
The Scopes Trial