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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. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.






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






4. Freedom of speech - religion and press;






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






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






7. The right to a fast and public trial.






8. Sets a term limit for the President






9. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






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






11. Established the federal income tax.






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






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






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






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






16. Separation by race.






17. Gave African - American men the right to vote.






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






19. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.






20. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.






21. Communist leader of Cuba.






22. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.






23. The direct election of US Senators.






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






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






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






27. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






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






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






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






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






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






33. New York political machine boss.

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34. 1939 - 1945






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






36. No unlawful search and seizure.






37. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.






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






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






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






41. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.






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






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






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






45. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.






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






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






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






49. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.






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






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