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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. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.






2. No cruel or unusual punishment.






3. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas






4. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.






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






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






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






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






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






10. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.






11. The right to vote for women.






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






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






14. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's






15. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.






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






17. Sets a term limit for the President






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






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






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






21. 1939 - 1945






22. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.






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






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






25. Made segregation illegal in public schools.






26. Communist leader of Cuba.






27. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.






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






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






30. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.






31. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I






32. Invented the vaccine for polio






33. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.






34. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.






35. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.






36. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.






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






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






39. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.






40. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.






41. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.






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






43. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President






44. President 1961-63






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






46. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.






47. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.






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






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






50. Abolished slavery