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






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






3. No unlawful search and seizure.






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






5. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.






6. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.






7. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)






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






9. American painter from 1920's

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10. President of the US during the Civil War.






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






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






13. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.






14. President 1961-63






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






16. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






17. Competition between European countries to create empires.






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






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






20. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.






21. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I






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






23. Sets a term limit for the President






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






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






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






27. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.






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






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






30. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.






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






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






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






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






35. Early rock n ' roll performer






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






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






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






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






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






41. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition






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






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






44. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.






45. First astronaut to land on the moon.






46. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.






47. Founding father - politician - scientist






48. 1914 - 1918






49. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.






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