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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.






2. 1914 - 1918






3. The right to a fast and public trial.






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






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






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






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






8. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.






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






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






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






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






13. No cruel or unusual punishment.






14. First form of government established by the 13 states.






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






16. President 1980-88.






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






18. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






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






20. 1939 - 1945






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






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






23. No quartering of troops during peace time






24. Rights reserved to the people.






25. President 1961-63






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






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






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






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






30. First astronaut to land on the moon.






31. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.






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






33. The right to vote for women.






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






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






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






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






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






39. Gave African - American men the right to vote.






40. Competition between European countries to create empires.






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






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






43. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.






44. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.






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






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






47. Invented the vaccine for polio






48. 1860 - 1865






49. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.






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