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






2. Competition between European countries to create empires.






3. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.






4. The direct election of US Senators.






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






6. Founding father - politician - scientist






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






8. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.






9. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.






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






11. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.






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






13. President 1980-88.






14. 1860 - 1865






15. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.






16. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.






17. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.






18. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.






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






20. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.






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






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






23. Right to bear arms






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






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






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






27. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.






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






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






30. President 1961-63






31. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.






32. Established the federal income tax.






33. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.






34. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.






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






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






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






38. 1914 - 1918






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






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






41. President 1963-68






42. The right to a fast and public trial.






43. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.






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






45. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.






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






47. President of the US during the Civil War.






48. 1939 - 1945






49. 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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50. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.