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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.






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






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






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






5. First astronaut to land on the moon.






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






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






8. Abolished the poll tax.






9. President of the US during the Civil War.






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






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






12. Right to bear arms






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






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






15. Communist leader of Cuba.






16. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






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






18. 1939 - 1945






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






20. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.






21. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 1914 - 1918






29. No cruel or unusual punishment.






30. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.






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






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






34. Movement of people into a country from another country.






35. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.






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






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






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






39. 1860 - 1865






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






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






42. President during Roaring 20's






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






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






45. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.






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






47. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.






48. Abolished slavery






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






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






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