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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • 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. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.






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






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






5. The right to vote for women.






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






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






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






9. The prohibition of alcohol.






10. Reapportionment / one man - one vote






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






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






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






14. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.






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






16. United Farm Workers activist






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






18. President 1961-63






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






20. New York political machine boss.

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






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






23. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.






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






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






26. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






27. Progressive president who served during WW I.






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






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






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






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






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






33. The right to a fast and public trial.






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






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






36. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers






37. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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