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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. No quartering of troops during peace time






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






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






4. No unlawful search and seizure.






5. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial






6. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.






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






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






9. Powers reserved to the states






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






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






12. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.






13. President 1963-68






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. The right to a fast and public trial.






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






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






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






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






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






29. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government






30. Separation by race.






31. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.






32. Progressive president who served during WW I.






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






34. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






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






36. President 1980-88.






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






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






39. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






40. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.






41. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.






42. 1939 - 1945






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






44. The prohibition of alcohol.






45. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.






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






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






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






49. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.






50. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent