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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Great Society
The Harlem Renaissance
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
World War II
2. No quartering of troops during peace time
Truman Doctrine (1947)
3rd Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
Federalist Papers
3. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Dawes Act
Berlin Wall
18th Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
4. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
22nd Amendment
The Holocaust
Red Scare
Warren G. Harding
5. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Martin Luther King Jr
Tenements
Gloria Steinem
5th Amendment
6. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Neil Armstrong
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Normandy
Teapot Dome Scandal
7. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Bobby Kennedy
21st Amendment
Great Society
Upton Sinclair
8. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tenements
6th Amendment
Berlin Wall
Flappers
9. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Separation of Powers
Truman Doctrine (1947)
League of Nations
Malcolm X
10. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
NATO (1959)
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
court packing
Domino Theory
11. The right to vote for women.
GI Bill
Andrew Carnegie
22nd Amendment
19thAmendment
12. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
Civil War
Bracero Program
William H. Taft
13. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
William H. Taft
17th Amendment
Populism
Yellow Journalism
14. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Great Compromise
Bracero Program
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Marshall Plan (1948)
15. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Viet Nam
Upton Sinclair
3rd Amendment
Checks and Balances
16. 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
Watergate
Baker v. Carr
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
17. Power is shared between the states and national government.
George Washington
Federalism
The Holocaust
Great Society
18. 1860 - 1865
Civil War
Rosa Parks
Gideon v. Wainwright
U.S.S. Maine
19. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
3rd Amendment
SEC
Red Scare
7th Amendment
20. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
21st Amendment
Watergate
The Rosenberg's
21. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Clarence Darrow
Command Economy
22. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Pearl Harbor
Urbanization
The Jazz Age
Social Darwinism
23. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Normandy
Booker T. Washington
Domino Theory
15th Amendment
24. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Transcontinental railroad
Imperialism
Berlin Wall
8th Amendment
25. President 1980-88.
Separation of Powers
Benjamin Franklin
Jim Crow laws
Ronald Reagan
26. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
Watergate
21st Amendment
Jacob Riis
27. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Tenements
Charles Lindbergh
The Scopes Trial
3rd Amendment
28. 1914 - 1918
Watergate
Gideon v. Wainwright
Upton Sinclair
World War I
29. Communist leader of Cuba.
Federalist Papers
Reconstruction
Fidel Castro
Joe McCarthy
30. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X
Abraham Lincoln
17th Amendment
15th Amendment
31. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Clarence Darrow
Segregation
Reconstruction
32. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Manifest Destiny
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Red Scare
Medger Evers
33. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Fourteen Points
Political machines
Flappers
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
34. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Columbian Exchange
Jacob Riis
9th Amendment
Charles Lindbergh
35. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
10th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Malcolm X
36. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Gloria Steinem
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Double V Campaign
Free Enterprise Economy
37. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Booker T. Washington
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Manifest Destiny
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
38. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
Reynolds v. Sims
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
39. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
21st Amendment
Political machines
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Harlem Renaissance
40. Trial by jury.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
6th Amendment
7th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
41. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Korean War
Urbanization
Social Darwinism
Clarence Darrow
42. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Federalism
Richard M. Nixon
Bobby Kennedy
Jim Crow laws
43. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Baby Boom
SEC
Federalism
Lyndon B. Johnson
44. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Viet Nam
John J. Pershing
Abraham Lincoln
Treaty of Versailles
45. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
46. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Bay of Pigs
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalist Papers
13th Amendment
47. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
Fourteen Points
Plessy v. Ferguson
48. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
21st Amendment
49. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
World War I
Island hopping
Domino Theory
50. Established the federal income tax.
Manifest Destiny
Trench Warfare
Political machines
16th Amendment