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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Jacob Riis
Rough Riders
Separation of Powers
The Harlem Renaissance
2. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Industrialization
Martin Luther King Jr
Harry S. Truman
Dust Bowl
3. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Great Migration
2nd Amendment
Yellow Journalism
4. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
League of Nations
Separation of Powers
The Harlem Renaissance
Nikita Kruschev
5. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Bay of Pigs
Abraham Lincoln
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
6. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Bay of Pigs
Yellow Journalism
Woodrow Wilson
Normandy
7. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
24th Amendment
Domino Theory
Treaty of Versailles
Dust Bowl
8. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Federalist Papers
Laissez Faire
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
William H. Taft
9. First form of government established by the 13 states.
10th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
The Articles of Confederation
Berlin Airlift
10. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
15th Amendment
Charles Lindbergh
Georgia O'Keefe
The Great Migration
11. Powers reserved to the states
Manifest Destiny
Island hopping
10th Amendment
The Great Migration
12. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
FDIC
Warren G. Harding
Fourteen Points
Bill of Rights
13. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr
Laissez Faire
5th Amendment
U.S.S. Maine
14. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
WEB DuBois
Baker v. Carr
Thomas Jefferson
The New Deal
15. Trial by jury.
7th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
Rough Riders
U.S.S. Maine
16. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Fidel Castro
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Double V Campaign
Barbed wire
17. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Woodrow Wilson
Populism
Nullification Crisis
Containment
18. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Muckrakers
Prohibition
4th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
19. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
13th Amendment
Great Compromise
Plessy v. Ferguson
20. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
King George III
16th Amendment
Urbanization
Transcontinental railroad
21. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Booker T. Washington
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
World War II
22. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Gloria Steinem
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Clarence Darrow
23. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Upton Sinclair
Treaty of Versailles
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
24. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Korean War
Normandy
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
WPA
25. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Bobby Kennedy
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Jonas Salk
Domino Theory
26. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Rough Riders
Great Society
SEC
WPA
27. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Bay of Pigs
Baker v. Carr
World War I
World War II
28. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Dust Bowl
WPA
The Great Migration
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
29. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Great Society
Command Economy
Battle of Wounded Knee
Ronald Reagan
30. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Warren G. Harding
Shirley Chisholm
Reynolds v. Sims
Korean War
31. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
Island hopping
6th Amendment
Great Society
32. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
17th Amendment
9th Amendment
WEB DuBois
33. New York political machine boss.
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34. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
John F. Kennedy
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Reconstruction
Muckrakers
35. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
Elvis Presley
Bracero Program
Normandy
36. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Immigration
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Jacob Riis
37. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Henry Ford
Thomas Paine
John J. Pershing
Harry S. Truman
38. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Thomas Jefferson
21st Amendment
Henry Ford
Manifest Destiny
39. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
Great Society
Rosa Parks
Normandy
40. President of the US during the Civil War.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Normandy
Columbian Exchange
Abraham Lincoln
41. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Red Scare
Warren G. Harding
Cuban Missile Crisis
Jim Crow laws
42. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Richard M. Nixon
Susan B. Anthony
The New Deal
Treaty of Versailles
43. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
court packing
Douglas MacArthur
Brown v. Board of Education
44. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Flappers
Neil Armstrong
Jim Crow laws
Red Scare
45. Founding father - politician - scientist
Benjamin Franklin
Normandy
3rd Amendment
Nullification Crisis
46. Rights reserved to the people.
4th Amendment
9th Amendment
6th Amendment
FDIC
47. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Fidel Castro
Populism
Dawes Act
Truman Doctrine (1947)
48. Abolished the poll tax.
Cattle Drives
17th Amendment
24th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
49. Invented the vaccine for polio
8th Amendment
Jonas Salk
Great Compromise
John J. Pershing
50. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
The Articles of Confederation
Cattle Drives
Elvis Presley
Shirley Chisholm