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






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






3. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.






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






5. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.






14. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.






15. No cruel or unusual punishment.






16. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.






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






18. Established the federal income tax.






19. Reapportionment / one man - one vote






20. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.






21. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.






22. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government






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






24. Separation by race.






25. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Alternate term for 1920's.






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






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






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






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






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






42. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.






43. Made segregation illegal in public schools.






44. The prohibition of alcohol.






45. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.






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






47. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.






48. Powers reserved to the states






49. Abolished the poll tax.






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