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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.






2. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.






3. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto






4. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.






5. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.






6. President of the US during the Civil War.






7. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.






8. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.






9. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.






10. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968






11. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.






12. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.






13. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's






14. 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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15. No quartering of troops during peace time






16. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations






17. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.






18. Separation by race.






19. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.






20. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`






21. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.






22. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.






23. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.






24. The right to a fast and public trial.






25. Alternate term for 1920's.






26. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.






27. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.






28. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.






29. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.






30. President during Roaring 20's






31. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






32. King of Great Britain during American Revolution






33. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.






34. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.






35. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.






36. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.






37. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.






38. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans






39. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.






40. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government






41. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.






42. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.






43. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.






44. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.






45. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






46. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition






47. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.






48. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.






49. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.






50. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.