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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.






2. Competition between European countries to create empires.






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






4. Communist leader of Cuba.






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






6. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






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






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






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






10. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.






11. Early rock n ' roll performer






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






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






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






15. President of the US during the Civil War.






16. 1939 - 1945






17. Abolished slavery






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






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






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






21. President 1980-88.






22. The right to vote for women.






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






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






25. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.






26. Sets a term limit for the President






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






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






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






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






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






32. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.






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






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






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






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






37. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.






38. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.






39. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Trial by jury.






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






49. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.






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