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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. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.






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






3. Power is shared between the states and national government.






4. First astronaut to land on the moon.






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






6. Trial by jury.






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






8. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.






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






10. Communist leader of Cuba.






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






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






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






14. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.






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






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






17. President of the US during the Civil War.






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






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






20. President during Roaring 20's






21. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning






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






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






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






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






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






27. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.






28. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.






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






30. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.






31. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.






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






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






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






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






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






37. President 1961-63






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






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






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






41. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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