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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. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
Civil War
Richard M. Nixon
SEC
2. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
13th Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
The Scopes Trial
Sputnik
3. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
17th Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
Theodore Roosevelt
The War on Poverty
4. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Medger Evers
Watergate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
5. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Miranda v. Arizona
Transcontinental railroad
Columbian Exchange
Andrew Carnegie
6. Early rock n ' roll performer
Tenements
22nd Amendment
Elvis Presley
2nd Amendment
7. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
The Little Rock Nine
Escobedo v. Illinois
King George III
Bobby Kennedy
8. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
22nd Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe
18th Amendment
Domino Theory
9. 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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10. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Rosa Parks
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cattle Drives
Ronald Reagan
11. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
The Great Migration
Yellow Journalism
Laissez Faire
21st Amendment
12. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Nullification Crisis
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Civil War
Industrialization
13. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Bay of Pigs
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Muckrakers
Medger Evers
14. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Yellow Journalism
Charles Lindbergh
Great Society
Viet Nam
15. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
The Articles of Confederation
Reynolds v. Sims
Immigration
Social Darwinism
16. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Warren G. Harding
Populism
Harry S. Truman
17. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Federalist Papers
FDIC
GI Bill
Reynolds v. Sims
18. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Columbian Exchange
17th Amendment
Samuel Adams
Fidel Castro
19. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Escobedo v. Illinois
Georgia O'Keefe
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Articles of Confederation
20. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Thomas Paine
Andrew Carnegie
Homestead Act
Federalism
21. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Battle of Midway
Cattle Drives
16th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
22. New York political machine boss.
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23. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Civil War
Neil Armstrong
Separation of Powers
24. No unlawful search and seizure.
The Baby Boom
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dust Bowl
4th Amendment
25. No quartering of troops during peace time
3rd Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
William Jennings Bryan
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
26. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
Thomas Jefferson
Bracero Program
Homestead Act
27. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
7th Amendment
Nullification Crisis
Great Compromise
28. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
The Great Migration
Laissez Faire
SEC
Red Scare
29. Communist leader of Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Sputnik
court packing
24th Amendment
30. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Laissez Faire
Segregation
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
John Scopes
31. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Trench Warfare
World War II
The Scopes Trial
Immigration
32. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Omar Bradley
Rosa Parks
7th Amendment
Populism
33. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Benjamin Franklin
Spanish - American War
William 'Boss' Tweed
John J. Pershing
34. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Viet Nam
Cattle Drives
Abraham Lincoln
Cesar Chavez
35. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Free Enterprise Economy
Transcontinental railroad
Charles Lindbergh
Thomas Paine
36. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
WPA
Neil Armstrong
William H. Taft
The Articles of Confederation
37. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
World War I
Cesar Chavez
The War on Poverty
Pearl Harbor
38. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
Laissez Faire
The War on Poverty
U.S.S. Maine
39. President during Roaring 20's
Abraham Lincoln
GI Bill
Calvin Coolidge
Laissez Faire
40. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Populism
Sputnik
8th Amendment
Jacob Riis
41. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
John Scopes
Plessy v. Ferguson
WPA
8th Amendment
42. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Warren G. Harding
Dust Bowl
Federalist Papers
Command Economy
43. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Nullification Crisis
Social Darwinism
Tenements
The War on Poverty
44. The right to vote for women.
Laissez Faire
17th Amendment
19thAmendment
Malcolm X
45. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
U.S.S. Maine
Normandy
5th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
46. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Treaty of Versailles
Plessy v. Ferguson
League of Nations
Great Compromise
47. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Reconstruction
court packing
Sputnik
Jacob Riis
48. President of the US during the Civil War.
Upton Sinclair
Dust Bowl
Abraham Lincoln
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
49. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Battle of Wounded Knee
John F. Kennedy
50. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Cesar Chavez
Containment
Nullification Crisis
Dwight D. Eisenhower