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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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1. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.






2. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.






3. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Alternate term for 1920's.






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






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






13. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.






14. 1914 - 1918






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






16. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.






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






18. The right to vote for women.






19. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.






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






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






22. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.






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






24. Reapportionment / one man - one vote






25. Invented the vaccine for polio






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






27. No unlawful search and seizure.






28. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.






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






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






32. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.






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






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






35. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.






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






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






38. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.






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






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






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






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






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






44. Abolished slavery






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






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






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






48. Movement of people into a country from another country.






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






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







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