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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs
Woodrow Wilson
2. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Bay of Pigs
Andrew Carnegie
The Scopes Trial
Gloria Steinem
3. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Escobedo v. Illinois
18th Amendment
Flappers
Dust Bowl
4. Progressive president who served during WW I.
U-2 Incident
Georgia O'Keefe
Viet Nam
Woodrow Wilson
5. Established the federal income tax.
Containment
16th Amendment
King George III
Sacco and Vanzetti
6. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
Jacob Riis
SEC
Emancipation Proclamation
7. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Jim Crow laws
Viet Nam
18th Amendment
26th Amendment
8. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Medger Evers
Fidel Castro
9. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
King George III
Pearl Harbor
Nullification Crisis
Containment
10. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Barbed wire
Free Enterprise Economy
Elvis Presley
Teapot Dome Scandal
11. President of the US during the Civil War.
24th Amendment
18th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
12. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Dust Bowl
Federalism
Georgia O'Keefe
Jacob Riis
13. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
10th Amendment
Thomas Paine
Industrialization
Ronald Reagan
14. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Great Society
FDIC
Reynolds v. Sims
15. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Cattle Drives
Rosa Parks
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
World War II
16. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Holocaust
Harry S. Truman
Muckrakers
17. Abolished the poll tax.
24th Amendment
court packing
Berlin Wall
Sputnik
18. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
William H. Taft
Reconstruction
Dawes Act
Martin Luther King Jr
19. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Red Scare
William H. Taft
Berlin Airlift
Bobby Kennedy
20. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Muckrakers
Sputnik
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Truman Doctrine (1947)
21. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
The New Deal
League of Nations
Spanish - American War
Fourteen Points
22. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
18th Amendment
Segregation
Douglas MacArthur
23. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Calvin Coolidge
The Baby Boom
Bill of Rights
16th Amendment
24. President 1961-63
Treaty of Versailles
John F. Kennedy
Dawes Act
World War II
25. No quartering of troops during peace time
17th Amendment
Upton Sinclair
3rd Amendment
Barbed wire
26. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Little Rock Nine
Bay of Pigs
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
27. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Checks and Balances
Federalist Papers
Teapot Dome Scandal
League of Nations
28. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Neil Armstrong
Free Enterprise Economy
Battle of Midway
Korean War
29. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Joe McCarthy
Command Economy
Teapot Dome Scandal
Cuban Missile Crisis
30. President 1963-68
Rosa Parks
Warren G. Harding
Martin Luther King Jr
Lyndon B. Johnson
31. Invented the vaccine for polio
Calvin Coolidge
Samuel Adams
Shirley Chisholm
Jonas Salk
32. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
World War I
Upton Sinclair
George Washington
33. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Watergate
22nd Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Urbanization
34. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Reconstruction
Island hopping
League of Nations
35. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Hoovervilles
Abraham Lincoln
John Scopes
Columbian Exchange
36. Powers reserved to the states
Transcontinental railroad
Sputnik
Dwight D. Eisenhower
10th Amendment
37. 1914 - 1918
World War I
William H. Taft
Pearl Harbor
Jonas Salk
38. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
SEC
The New Deal
Free Enterprise Economy
Battle of Midway
39. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
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40. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
GI Bill
Gideon v. Wainwright
15th Amendment
14th Amendment
41. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Federalism
15th Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Flappers
42. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
WPA
Double V Campaign
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Harry S. Truman
43. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Flappers
Command Economy
26th Amendment
44. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Jacob Riis
Homestead Act
Sputnik
The Articles of Confederation
45. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Georgia O'Keefe
Medger Evers
John J. Pershing
Viet Nam
46. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Booker T. Washington
17th Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Charles Lindbergh
47. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Barbed wire
Flappers
John F. Kennedy
48. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
The Scopes Trial
Columbian Exchange
court packing
WEB DuBois
49. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Muckrakers
Bay of Pigs
Urbanization
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
50. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Calvin Coolidge
Marshall Plan (1948)
The Scopes Trial
Imperialism