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TAKS 11th Grade Us History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.






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






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






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






5. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.






6. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.






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






8. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.






9. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.






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






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






12. King of Great Britain during American Revolution






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






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






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






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






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






18. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.






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






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






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






22. Abolished the poll tax.






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






24. Reapportionment / one man - one vote






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






26. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.






27. The right to a fast and public trial.






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






29. Established the federal income tax.






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






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






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






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






34. Early rock n ' roll performer






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






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






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






38. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.






39. Competition between European countries to create empires.






40. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968






41. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.






42. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.






43. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I






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






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






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






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






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






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






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