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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas






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






3. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.






4. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.






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






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






7. Established the federal income tax.






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






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






10. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.






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






12. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.






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






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






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






16. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.






17. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government






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






19. No cruel or unusual punishment.






20. Right to bear arms






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






22. Abolished the poll tax.






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






24. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.






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






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






27. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I






28. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.






29. Freedom of speech - religion and press;






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






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






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






33. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.






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






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






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






37. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.






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






39. President 1963-68






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






41. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.






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






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






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






45. Communist leader of Cuba.






46. Alternate term for 1920's.






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






48. No unlawful search and seizure.






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






50. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate