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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. 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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2. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Warren G. Harding
Island hopping
13th Amendment
Great Society
3. 1914 - 1918
World War I
5th Amendment
Populism
Checks and Balances
4. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Samuel Adams
Great Compromise
Island hopping
Hoovervilles
5. Early rock n ' roll performer
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Miranda v. Arizona
Elvis Presley
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
6. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Treaty of Versailles
10th Amendment
Sputnik
7. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
Korean War
Hoovervilles
Industrialization
8. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Korean War
Reconstruction
Columbian Exchange
Cattle Drives
9. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Korean War
FDIC
Columbian Exchange
Omar Bradley
10. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Elvis Presley
Trench Warfare
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Transcontinental railroad
11. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Urbanization
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Manifest Destiny
Fourteen Points
12. The right to vote for women.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
The Holocaust
19thAmendment
Elvis Presley
13. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Domino Theory
4th Amendment
14th Amendment
14. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
WPA
The War on Poverty
William 'Boss' Tweed
15. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Cattle Drives
Dawes Act
Command Economy
Malcolm X
16. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Domino Theory
Trench Warfare
Miranda v. Arizona
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
17. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Bay of Pigs
Baker v. Carr
10th Amendment
19thAmendment
18. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Joe McCarthy
Gloria Steinem
WEB DuBois
Tenements
19. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Samuel Adams
U.S.S. Maine
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Henry Ford
20. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
26th Amendment
Federalist Papers
The Holocaust
Yellow Journalism
21. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
John Scopes
Spanish - American War
Nullification Crisis
The Little Rock Nine
22. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Columbian Exchange
Civil War
Shirley Chisholm
Baker v. Carr
23. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Andrew Carnegie
Gideon v. Wainwright
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Trench Warfare
24. New York political machine boss.
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25. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
The Little Rock Nine
Emancipation Proclamation
NATO (1959)
Teapot Dome Scandal
26. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
SEC
Clarence Darrow
Homestead Act
18th Amendment
27. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Hoovervilles
Richard M. Nixon
Federalism
NATO (1959)
28. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
Watergate
Douglas MacArthur
15th Amendment
29. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Bill of Rights
World War II
Double V Campaign
Calvin Coolidge
30. Trial by jury.
Federalist Papers
World War I
7th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
31. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Island hopping
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Treaty of Versailles
Rosa Parks
32. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
3rd Amendment
Command Economy
Reynolds v. Sims
Industrialization
33. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Plessy v. Ferguson
King George III
Bill of Rights
Booker T. Washington
34. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
Separation of Powers
Free Enterprise Economy
Clarence Darrow
35. Alternate term for 1920's.
The War on Poverty
Populism
The Jazz Age
William Jennings Bryan
36. 1860 - 1865
Thomas Jefferson
Civil War
Gideon v. Wainwright
William Jennings Bryan
37. President 1961-63
GI Bill
Dust Bowl
Flappers
John F. Kennedy
38. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Booker T. Washington
Manifest Destiny
Woodrow Wilson
Berlin Wall
39. 1939 - 1945
World War II
The Great Migration
League of Nations
Viet Nam
40. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Bracero Program
Plessy v. Ferguson
5th Amendment
41. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
William H. Taft
Alfred Thayer Mahan
42. American painter from 1920's
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43. Separation by race.
Hoovervilles
Susan B. Anthony
court packing
Segregation
44. The prohibition of alcohol.
The Great Migration
Dwight D. Eisenhower
18th Amendment
Imperialism
45. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
U.S.S. Maine
24th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
Muckrakers
46. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Political machines
9th Amendment
Pearl Harbor
4th Amendment
47. Established the federal income tax.
6th Amendment
16th Amendment
George Washington
Malcolm X
48. Sets a term limit for the President
Gloria Steinem
Civil War
Immigration
22nd Amendment
49. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Reconstruction
Martin Luther King Jr
Jacob Riis
Industrialization
50. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Prohibition
The Baby Boom
2nd Amendment
16th Amendment