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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.






2. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action






3. President of the US during the Civil War.






4. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.






5. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.






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






7. President 1963-68






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






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






10. Powers reserved to the states






11. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.






12. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.






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






14. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.






15. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.






16. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)






17. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.






18. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957






19. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.






20. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.






21. First astronaut to land on the moon.






22. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.






23. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.






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






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






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






27. Competition between European countries to create empires.






28. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.






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






30. Movement of people into a country from another country.






31. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.






32. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.






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






34. Communist leader of Cuba.






35. Right to bear arms






36. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress






37. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.






38. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






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






40. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers






41. Progressive president who served during WW I.






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






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






44. King of Great Britain during American Revolution






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






46. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.






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






48. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






49. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency






50. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.