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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Sets a term limit for the President






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






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






10. Communist leader of Cuba.






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






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






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






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






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






16. 1939 - 1945






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






18. Abolished slavery






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






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






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






22. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.






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






24. Powers reserved to the states






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






26. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.






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






41. Reapportionment / one man - one vote






42. Invented the vaccine for polio






43. Rights reserved to the people.






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






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






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






47. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.






48. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning






49. Trial by jury.






50. First astronaut to land on the moon.