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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. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
U.S.S. Maine
GI Bill
Prohibition
2. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Rosa Parks
Emancipation Proclamation
Bay of Pigs
3. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
The Articles of Confederation
Elvis Presley
John F. Kennedy
Teapot Dome Scandal
4. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
The Harlem Renaissance
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
5. 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
World War I
Abraham Lincoln
Homestead Act
6. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
The Holocaust
Andrew Carnegie
Nikita Kruschev
Bobby Kennedy
7. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Bracero Program
Dawes Act
Douglas MacArthur
Georgia O'Keefe
8. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Gideon v. Wainwright
League of Nations
Harry S. Truman
Bill of Rights
9. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
Rough Riders
Cesar Chavez
WPA
10. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Reynolds v. Sims
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Immigration
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
11. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Emancipation Proclamation
The Articles of Confederation
Cuban Missile Crisis
Booker T. Washington
12. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Harry S. Truman
Woodrow Wilson
Pearl Harbor
Malcolm X
13. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Great Society
Transcontinental railroad
Medger Evers
14. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Berlin Airlift
Red Scare
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Baker v. Carr
15. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Harry S. Truman
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Manifest Destiny
24th Amendment
16. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
17th Amendment
Cattle Drives
Jacob Riis
court packing
17. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Gloria Steinem
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Gideon v. Wainwright
King George III
18. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Separation of Powers
Sputnik
GI Bill
19. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Double V Campaign
9th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
Nullification Crisis
20. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Scopes Trial
Booker T. Washington
16th Amendment
Populism
21. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
George Wallace
King George III
Shirley Chisholm
Omar Bradley
22. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
Normandy
Dust Bowl
John J. Pershing
23. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Warren G. Harding
Medger Evers
Samuel Adams
19thAmendment
24. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Theodore Roosevelt
Transcontinental railroad
5th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
25. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
court packing
Reynolds v. Sims
Theodore Roosevelt
World War I
26. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Theodore Roosevelt
Tenements
Rosa Parks
13th Amendment
27. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Upton Sinclair
Malcolm X
The War on Poverty
The Baby Boom
28. Early rock n ' roll performer
Great Society
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Elvis Presley
29. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
SEC
Urbanization
George Wallace
Alfred Thayer Mahan
30. The prohibition of alcohol.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Tenements
Reynolds v. Sims
18th Amendment
31. 1914 - 1918
Calvin Coolidge
The Jazz Age
Rosa Parks
World War I
32. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Laissez Faire
Trench Warfare
Malcolm X
10th Amendment
33. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Rough Riders
World War II
Command Economy
Susan B. Anthony
34. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
George Washington
1st Amendment
The New Deal
Command Economy
35. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Woodrow Wilson
William H. Taft
24th Amendment
Pearl Harbor
36. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Fourteen Points
William Jennings Bryan
26th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
37. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Rosa Parks
Korean War
Double V Campaign
The Great Migration
38. President during Roaring 20's
Tenements
World War I
Calvin Coolidge
Reconstruction
39. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Urbanization
Laissez Faire
The War on Poverty
5th Amendment
40. President of the US during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
U-2 Incident
Free Enterprise Economy
13th Amendment
41. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Woodrow Wilson
1st Amendment
Tenements
The Rosenberg's
42. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Fourteen Points
Pearl Harbor
Great Society
Sputnik
43. Right to bear arms
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
League of Nations
2nd Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
44. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Columbian Exchange
Yellow Journalism
Pearl Harbor
Medger Evers
45. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
George Washington
The Jazz Age
Double V Campaign
Reconstruction
46. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
World War II
Spanish - American War
Yellow Journalism
Emancipation Proclamation
47. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Bay of Pigs
14th Amendment
48. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Medger Evers
Clarence Darrow
Columbian Exchange
Dwight D. Eisenhower
49. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
Homestead Act
Brown v. Board of Education
Bill of Rights
50. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Urbanization
1st Amendment
Sputnik
Immigration