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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. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.






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






3. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.






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






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






6. President 1961-63






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






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






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






10. No quartering of troops during peace time






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






12. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.






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






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






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






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






17. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.






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






19. Abolished slavery






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






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






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






23. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






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






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






26. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent






27. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)






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






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






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






31. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action






32. President 1980-88.






33. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.






34. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition






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






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






37. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.






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






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






40. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.






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






42. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.






43. Powers reserved to the states






44. Progressive president who served during WW I.






45. Early rock n ' roll performer






46. American painter from 1920's

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






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






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






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