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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Right to bear arms






2. United Farm Workers activist






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






4. Freedom of speech - religion and press;






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






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






7. President 1963-68






8. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.






9. The right to vote for women.






10. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate






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






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






13. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.






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






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






16. Abolished the poll tax.






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






18. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.






19. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Founding father - politician - scientist






27. New York political machine boss.

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28. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans






29. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.






30. President 1961-63






31. 1860 - 1865






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






33. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.






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






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






36. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government






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






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






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






40. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I






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






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






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






44. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.






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






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






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






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






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






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