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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1914 - 1918






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






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






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






5. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.






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






7. Competition between European countries to create empires.






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






9. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.






10. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.






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






12. 1939 - 1945






13. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.






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






15. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






16. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.






17. First astronaut to land on the moon.






18. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.






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






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






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






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






23. Established the federal income tax.






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






25. 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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26. United Farm Workers activist






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






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






29. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government






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






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






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






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






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






35. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)






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






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






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






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






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






41. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.






42. Communist leader of Cuba.






43. Rights reserved to the people.






44. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.






45. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress






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






47. Abolished slavery






48. Founding father - politician - scientist






49. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.






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