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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
The Articles of Confederation
Bay of Pigs
Containment
2. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
18th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
15th Amendment
The War on Poverty
3. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Charles Lindbergh
Social Darwinism
World War I
Flappers
4. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Populism
The Harlem Renaissance
Bracero Program
3rd Amendment
5. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
court packing
19thAmendment
Jim Crow laws
24th Amendment
6. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Imperialism
Cesar Chavez
Muckrakers
Ronald Reagan
7. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Nikita Kruschev
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
8. Powers reserved to the states
WPA
10th Amendment
Yellow Journalism
5th Amendment
9. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Viet Nam
The Rosenberg's
Urbanization
George Washington
10. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Federalist Papers
John J. Pershing
John F. Kennedy
Columbian Exchange
11. Movement of people into a country from another country.
4th Amendment
Immigration
15th Amendment
Korean War
12. Established the federal income tax.
court packing
Industrialization
16th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
13. 1939 - 1945
World War II
The Little Rock Nine
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William 'Boss' Tweed
14. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Berlin Wall
21st Amendment
William H. Taft
Battle of Wounded Knee
15. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
The Baby Boom
The Great Migration
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
16. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Treaty of Versailles
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bobby Kennedy
World War II
17. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Populism
18th Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
Great Society
18. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
The Holocaust
15th Amendment
19thAmendment
Laissez Faire
19. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Industrialization
19thAmendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Treaty of Versailles
20. No unlawful search and seizure.
4th Amendment
Laissez Faire
Fidel Castro
Clarence Darrow
21. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
22. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Calvin Coolidge
Gloria Steinem
Martin Luther King Jr
John Scopes
23. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
The Harlem Renaissance
The New Deal
Reynolds v. Sims
NATO (1959)
24. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Benjamin Franklin
Containment
Brown v. Board of Education
Normandy
25. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
Woodrow Wilson
Dust Bowl
Shirley Chisholm
26. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Spanish - American War
Fourteen Points
10th Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
27. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Bracero Program
6th Amendment
Separation of Powers
court packing
28. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
17th Amendment
George Wallace
The Great Migration
GI Bill
29. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Sacco and Vanzetti
Red Scare
GI Bill
30. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Double V Campaign
Separation of Powers
Andrew Carnegie
World War I
31. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Gloria Steinem
6th Amendment
Samuel Adams
32. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Elvis Presley
The Scopes Trial
Korean War
WEB DuBois
33. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
26th Amendment
16th Amendment
Civil War
League of Nations
34. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
League of Nations
SEC
15th Amendment
The New Deal
35. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Calvin Coolidge
Elvis Presley
Abraham Lincoln
Miranda v. Arizona
36. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Barbed wire
Benjamin Franklin
Hoovervilles
Island hopping
37. Trial by jury.
The Jazz Age
Federalist Papers
Omar Bradley
7th Amendment
38. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Cesar Chavez
Shirley Chisholm
Normandy
Imperialism
39. Abolished slavery
13th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
Checks and Balances
GI Bill
40. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
WPA
Watergate
Immigration
Double V Campaign
41. Founding father - politician - scientist
Nullification Crisis
Benjamin Franklin
Dust Bowl
John Scopes
42. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
22nd Amendment
Berlin Airlift
Benjamin Franklin
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
43. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Sputnik
The Little Rock Nine
U.S.S. Maine
The Rosenberg's
44. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Berlin Airlift
Henry Ford
George Wallace
Martin Luther King Jr
45. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Nullification Crisis
Viet Nam
Samuel Adams
Barbed wire
46. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Spanish - American War
26th Amendment
Laissez Faire
Ronald Reagan
47. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
World War I
The War on Poverty
Great Society
GI Bill
48. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Berlin Wall
7th Amendment
The Scopes Trial
Separation of Powers
49. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Prohibition
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Trench Warfare
50. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Battle of Wounded Knee
Miranda v. Arizona
Calvin Coolidge