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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.






2. Gave African - American men the right to vote.






3. 1914 - 1918






4. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.






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






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






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






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






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






10. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)






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






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






13. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.






14. The prohibition of alcohol.






15. Right to bear arms






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






17. United Farm Workers activist






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






19. Competition between European countries to create empires.






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






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






22. Communist leader of Cuba.






23. The right to a fast and public trial.






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






25. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.






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






27. President during Roaring 20's






28. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945






29. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.






30. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.






31. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.






32. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






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






43. Invented the vaccine for polio






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






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






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






47. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.






48. No quartering of troops during peace time






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






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