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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.






2. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.






3. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






4. 1914 - 1918






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






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






7. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition






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






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






10. Invented the vaccine for polio






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






12. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government






13. First astronaut to land on the moon.






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






15. Alternate term for 1920's.






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






17. 1939 - 1945






18. President 1963-68






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






20. Established the federal income tax.






21. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I






32. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.






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






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






35. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.






36. Right to bear arms






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






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






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






40. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945






41. 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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42. Communist leader of Cuba.






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






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






45. Founding father - politician - scientist






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






47. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)






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






49. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto






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