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






2. Progressive president who served during WW I.






3. Trial by jury.






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






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






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






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






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






9. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.






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






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






12. 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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13. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






14. Competition between European countries to create empires.






15. United Farm Workers activist






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






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






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






19. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning






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






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






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






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






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






25. Communist leader of Cuba.






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






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






28. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government






29. Sets a term limit for the President






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






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






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






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






34. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.






35. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.






36. First astronaut to land on the moon.






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






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






39. Early rock n ' roll performer






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






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






42. 1860 - 1865






43. Invented the vaccine for polio






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






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






46. Founding father - politician - scientist






47. Right to bear arms






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






49. No unlawful search and seizure.






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