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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Laissez Faire
Populism
Korean War
Elvis Presley
2. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Tenements
Yellow Journalism
1st Amendment
3. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Separation of Powers
Clarence Darrow
21st Amendment
Thomas Paine
4. 1914 - 1918
Political machines
NATO (1959)
14th Amendment
World War I
5. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
10th Amendment
Social Darwinism
15th Amendment
1st Amendment
6. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
1st Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Marshall Plan (1948)
The Great Migration
7. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Separation of Powers
21st Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
Prohibition
8. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr
World War II
The Harlem Renaissance
9. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Pearl Harbor
Federalist Papers
Samuel Adams
10. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
22nd Amendment
Industrialization
Watergate
11. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Domino Theory
Miranda v. Arizona
Reconstruction
Segregation
12. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Thomas Paine
Bay of Pigs
Dust Bowl
Flappers
13. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
Homestead Act
King George III
1st Amendment
14. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
The Great Migration
Immigration
15th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
15. Alternate term for 1920's.
Richard M. Nixon
Bay of Pigs
The Jazz Age
7th Amendment
16. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Korean War
Berlin Wall
George Wallace
Jonas Salk
17. 1939 - 1945
World War II
Jonas Salk
The Holocaust
Sputnik
18. President 1963-68
Georgia O'Keefe
Lyndon B. Johnson
Federalism
4th Amendment
19. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
22nd Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
The Little Rock Nine
Spanish - American War
20. Established the federal income tax.
The War on Poverty
The Baby Boom
16th Amendment
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21. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Abraham Lincoln
Susan B. Anthony
9th Amendment
13th Amendment
22. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Neil Armstrong
League of Nations
16th Amendment
26th Amendment
23. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Federalist Papers
Bobby Kennedy
Jacob Riis
Baker v. Carr
24. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Samuel Adams
FDIC
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Henry Ford
25. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
FDIC
10th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
George Washington
26. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Cuban Missile Crisis
21st Amendment
Sputnik
Baker v. Carr
27. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
William 'Boss' Tweed
The War on Poverty
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
League of Nations
28. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Jim Crow laws
Nullification Crisis
World War I
Fidel Castro
29. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
9th Amendment
10th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
30. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Federalism
Viet Nam
The Scopes Trial
Tenements
31. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Spanish - American War
Trench Warfare
John J. Pershing
Manifest Destiny
32. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Nullification Crisis
The War on Poverty
Jim Crow laws
Omar Bradley
33. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
15th Amendment
Dawes Act
Double V Campaign
34. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Yellow Journalism
Gloria Steinem
Cattle Drives
Muckrakers
35. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Woodrow Wilson
Watergate
10th Amendment
Bill of Rights
36. Right to bear arms
The Jazz Age
Containment
2nd Amendment
Samuel Adams
37. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
17th Amendment
Command Economy
10th Amendment
Immigration
38. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Yellow Journalism
Muckrakers
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Charles Lindbergh
39. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Andrew Carnegie
William Jennings Bryan
Fourteen Points
Barbed wire
40. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Great Compromise
Free Enterprise Economy
41. 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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42. Communist leader of Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
4th Amendment
Muckrakers
43. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
3rd Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
7th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
44. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Social Darwinism
Dust Bowl
Reconstruction
Neil Armstrong
45. Founding father - politician - scientist
Malcolm X
Bay of Pigs
Benjamin Franklin
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
46. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Social Darwinism
Treaty of Versailles
Clarence Darrow
Rosa Parks
47. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Transcontinental railroad
Plessy v. Ferguson
Bobby Kennedy
Normandy
48. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
Prohibition
Separation of Powers
World War I
49. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
Red Scare
The Jazz Age
Thomas Paine
50. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Korean War
18th Amendment
Checks and Balances
Red Scare