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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.






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






3. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.






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






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






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






7. Freedom of speech - religion and press;






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






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






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






11. King of Great Britain during American Revolution






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






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






14. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial






15. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.






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






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






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






19. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.






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






21. Communist leader of Cuba.






22. No cruel or unusual punishment.






23. The right to a fast and public trial.






24. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.






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






26. No unlawful search and seizure.






27. Abolished slavery






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






29. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.






30. 1860 - 1865






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






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






33. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






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






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






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






37. Invented the vaccine for polio






38. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`






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






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






41. Competition between European countries to create empires.






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






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






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






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






46. Founding father - politician - scientist






47. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I






48. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.






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