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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Baker v. Carr
GI Bill
The Articles of Confederation
17th Amendment
2. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Sputnik
10th Amendment
Omar Bradley
Thomas Jefferson
3. Communist leader of Cuba.
Domino Theory
Prohibition
Fidel Castro
League of Nations
4. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
14th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
The Harlem Renaissance
5. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Separation of Powers
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Thomas Jefferson
26th Amendment
6. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Fidel Castro
Sacco and Vanzetti
Thomas Paine
6th Amendment
7. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Teapot Dome Scandal
The New Deal
Nikita Kruschev
Charles Lindbergh
8. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Calvin Coolidge
Transcontinental railroad
The New Deal
Shirley Chisholm
9. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
The War on Poverty
9th Amendment
The Baby Boom
10. 1939 - 1945
World War II
Booker T. Washington
19thAmendment
Domino Theory
11. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Great Compromise
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
2nd Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
12. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Bay of Pigs
George Wallace
Great Compromise
Nikita Kruschev
13. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Hoovervilles
Island hopping
14th Amendment
21st Amendment
14. Powers reserved to the states
Federalism
10th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Normandy
15. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
GI Bill
Urbanization
Hoovervilles
Watergate
16. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Neil Armstrong
The Articles of Confederation
Dust Bowl
Columbian Exchange
17. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Command Economy
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Fourteen Points
Federalism
18. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Industrialization
Containment
World War II
Fidel Castro
19. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
The Jazz Age
Escobedo v. Illinois
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Charles Lindbergh
20. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Woodrow Wilson
Sacco and Vanzetti
Reconstruction
Berlin Wall
21. No quartering of troops during peace time
3rd Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Cattle Drives
WEB DuBois
22. Established the federal income tax.
16th Amendment
WPA
26th Amendment
Island hopping
23. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Samuel Adams
13th Amendment
Bracero Program
Sacco and Vanzetti
24. No unlawful search and seizure.
Trench Warfare
Civil War
4th Amendment
William H. Taft
25. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Social Darwinism
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Jefferson
Fidel Castro
26. Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
SEC
Bay of Pigs
24th Amendment
27. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Harlem Renaissance
Lyndon B. Johnson
Brown v. Board of Education
Warren G. Harding
28. The prohibition of alcohol.
court packing
Flappers
4th Amendment
18th Amendment
29. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
14th Amendment
WPA
Prohibition
Clarence Darrow
30. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Hoovervilles
Political machines
Georgia O'Keefe
Medger Evers
31. No cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
U-2 Incident
Ronald Reagan
32. Trial by jury.
Omar Bradley
Great Society
Battle of Midway
7th Amendment
33. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Miranda v. Arizona
24th Amendment
Laissez Faire
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
34. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Calvin Coolidge
Hoovervilles
6th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
35. Founding father - politician - scientist
Clarence Darrow
Benjamin Franklin
Nullification Crisis
Muckrakers
36. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Island hopping
Rosa Parks
Bay of Pigs
U-2 Incident
37. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Domino Theory
Barbed wire
Containment
SEC
38. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
10th Amendment
Laissez Faire
8th Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
39. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Nikita Kruschev
King George III
Charles Lindbergh
Dawes Act
40. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Thomas Jefferson
Island hopping
13th Amendment
The Scopes Trial
41. Alternate term for 1920's.
Containment
Battle of Midway
The Jazz Age
Red Scare
42. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Muckrakers
Political machines
Normandy
John F. Kennedy
43. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Checks and Balances
Berlin Wall
Homestead Act
44. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
21st Amendment
Gloria Steinem
8th Amendment
45. The right to a fast and public trial.
GI Bill
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
6th Amendment
Fourteen Points
46. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
Battle of Wounded Knee
Barbed wire
Dust Bowl
47. The right to vote for women.
19thAmendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bobby Kennedy
Yellow Journalism
48. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Fidel Castro
Dawes Act
The Little Rock Nine
49. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
Muckrakers
John Scopes
Booker T. Washington
50. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
U-2 Incident
Thomas Jefferson
Jonas Salk