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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.






2. Sets a term limit for the President






3. No quartering of troops during peace time






4. Trial by jury.






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






6. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.






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






8. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.






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






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






11. No cruel or unusual punishment.






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






13. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.






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






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






16. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.






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






18. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.






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






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






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






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






23. Separation by race.






24. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.






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






26. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.






27. President of the US during the Civil War.






28. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I






29. Power is shared between the states and national government.






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






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






33. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.






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






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






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






37. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.






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






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






40. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.






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






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






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






44. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.






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






46. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.






47. Early rock n ' roll performer






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






49. The right to vote for women.






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