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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. Abolished the poll tax.






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






3. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition






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






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






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






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






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






9. 1860 - 1865






10. No cruel or unusual punishment.






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Trial by jury.






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






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






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






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






22. No quartering of troops during peace time






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






24. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.






25. The right to a fast and public trial.






26. First astronaut to land on the moon.






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






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






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






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






31. Abolished slavery






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.






39. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.






40. Progressive president who served during WW I.






41. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.






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






43. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.






44. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.






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






46. Reapportionment / one man - one vote






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






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






49. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.






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