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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sets a term limit for the President






2. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.






3. President 1961-63






4. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.






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






6. Founding father - politician - scientist






7. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.






8. 1939 - 1945






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






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






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






12. Communist leader of Cuba.






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






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






15. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






16. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.






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






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






19. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.






20. Alternate term for 1920's.






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






22. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.






23. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.






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






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






26. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.






27. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I






28. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.






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






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






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






32. Established the federal income tax.






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






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






35. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.






36. President of the US during the Civil War.






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






38. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.






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






40. Competition between European countries to create empires.






41. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.






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






43. Reapportionment / one man - one vote






44. King of Great Britain during American Revolution






45. 1914 - 1918






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






47. President during Roaring 20's






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






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






50. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.