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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. No quartering of troops during peace time






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






3. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






4. Progressive president who served during WW I.






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






6. Invented the vaccine for polio






7. The right to a fast and public trial.






8. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.






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






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






11. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.






12. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.






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






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






15. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I






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






17. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.






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






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






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






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






22. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968






23. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.






24. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.






25. Abolished slavery






26. President 1963-68






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






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






29. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)






30. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.






31. Separation by race.






32. Powers reserved to the states






33. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.






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






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






36. New York political machine boss.

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.






45. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.






46. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






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






48. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.






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






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