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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.






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






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






4. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's






5. No unlawful search and seizure.






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






7. The right to vote for women.






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






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






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






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






12. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






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






14. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






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






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






17. First form of government established by the 13 states.






18. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.






19. Powers reserved to the states






20. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.






21. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.






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






23. Established the federal income tax.






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






25. United Farm Workers activist






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






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






28. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.






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






30. President 1963-68






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






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






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






34. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.






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






36. No quartering of troops during peace time






37. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.






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






39. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.






40. No cruel or unusual punishment.






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






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






43. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.






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






45. 1914 - 1918






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






47. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.






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






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






50. Reapportionment / one man - one vote