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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. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
George Washington
Susan B. Anthony
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
18th Amendment
2. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
18th Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Cesar Chavez
Henry Ford
3. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Nikita Kruschev
Jonas Salk
4. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
The New Deal
WPA
Sputnik
Yellow Journalism
5. American painter from 1920's
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6. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Jacob Riis
Susan B. Anthony
Nullification Crisis
SEC
7. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Flappers
Theodore Roosevelt
Social Darwinism
Bobby Kennedy
8. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
The Great Migration
WPA
Calvin Coolidge
John J. Pershing
9. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln
SEC
Malcolm X
Free Enterprise Economy
10. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sputnik
King George III
18th Amendment
11. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
John J. Pershing
Nullification Crisis
Command Economy
7th Amendment
12. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
SEC
Populism
Lyndon B. Johnson
8th Amendment
13. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Imperialism
Populism
Malcolm X
Command Economy
14. Alternate term for 1920's.
Reynolds v. Sims
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Jazz Age
Double V Campaign
15. President 1980-88.
The Harlem Renaissance
Ronald Reagan
3rd Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
16. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Abraham Lincoln
WEB DuBois
FDIC
Emancipation Proclamation
17. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
The Jazz Age
George Wallace
The Holocaust
Teapot Dome Scandal
18. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Dust Bowl
U-2 Incident
Federalist Papers
FDIC
19. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
George Wallace
The Harlem Renaissance
Henry Ford
Checks and Balances
20. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Nullification Crisis
Treaty of Versailles
William 'Boss' Tweed
Great Society
21. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Rough Riders
Korean War
Prohibition
Great Compromise
22. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Nullification Crisis
Miranda v. Arizona
Cuban Missile Crisis
15th Amendment
23. 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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24. Power is shared between the states and national government.
7th Amendment
Command Economy
Federalism
Thomas Jefferson
25. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Charles Lindbergh
26. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Ronald Reagan
Containment
Douglas MacArthur
Thomas Jefferson
27. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Laissez Faire
Ronald Reagan
Federalist Papers
Rough Riders
28. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Marshall Plan (1948)
George Washington
29. Separation by race.
Thomas Jefferson
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Spanish - American War
Segregation
30. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
4th Amendment
14th Amendment
Imperialism
Omar Bradley
31. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
Double V Campaign
5th Amendment
William 'Boss' Tweed
32. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Urbanization
5th Amendment
16th Amendment
33. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
18th Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
34. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Homestead Act
Sacco and Vanzetti
Nikita Kruschev
35. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
FDIC
Douglas MacArthur
Susan B. Anthony
William 'Boss' Tweed
36. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Joe McCarthy
Georgia O'Keefe
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
24th Amendment
37. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Cattle Drives
George Wallace
Neil Armstrong
Segregation
38. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
Emancipation Proclamation
Trench Warfare
Clarence Darrow
39. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
The Baby Boom
Hoovervilles
Dawes Act
40. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Laissez Faire
World War I
9th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
41. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
court packing
Free Enterprise Economy
John J. Pershing
William H. Taft
42. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
Escobedo v. Illinois
Dawes Act
Barbed wire
43. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Shirley Chisholm
Dawes Act
Bay of Pigs
3rd Amendment
44. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Joe McCarthy
Civil War
Shirley Chisholm
Rough Riders
45. Founding father - politician - scientist
Muckrakers
George Washington
World War II
Benjamin Franklin
46. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Fidel Castro
Viet Nam
Great Society
22nd Amendment
47. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Korean War
The War on Poverty
14th Amendment
George Wallace
48. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Fidel Castro
22nd Amendment
Battle of Midway
49. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
John J. Pershing
Bay of Pigs
The Rosenberg's
The Jazz Age
50. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Homestead Act
NATO (1959)
Immigration
Island hopping