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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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1. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.






2. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.






3. 1860 - 1865






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






5. The right to a fast and public trial.






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






7. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.






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






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






10. Early rock n ' roll performer






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






12. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.






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






14. 1914 - 1918






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






16. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.






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






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






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






20. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.






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






22. Rights reserved to the people.






23. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






24. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.






25. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.






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






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






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






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






30. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.






31. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.






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






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






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






35. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.






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






37. Communist leader of Cuba.






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






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






40. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.






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






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






43. Invented the vaccine for polio






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






45. The right to vote for women.






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






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






49. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.






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