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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Woodrow Wilson
Booker T. Washington
Joe McCarthy
Omar Bradley
2. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Ronald Reagan
Berlin Airlift
Segregation
Malcolm X
3. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
22nd Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Miranda v. Arizona
Medger Evers
4. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Little Rock Nine
Reconstruction
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
5. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
6th Amendment
21st Amendment
Federalist Papers
Dust Bowl
6. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Sputnik
Domino Theory
Viet Nam
Rosa Parks
7. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
26th Amendment
Korean War
Federalist Papers
10th Amendment
8. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
The War on Poverty
Gloria Steinem
Great Compromise
8th Amendment
9. Founding father - politician - scientist
William Jennings Bryan
2nd Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
10. New York political machine boss.
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11. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Pearl Harbor
Nikita Kruschev
William Jennings Bryan
U-2 Incident
12. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
The New Deal
Clarence Darrow
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Laissez Faire
13. The prohibition of alcohol.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Federalist Papers
18th Amendment
14. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
Calvin Coolidge
Nullification Crisis
15. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Fourteen Points
William Jennings Bryan
Teapot Dome Scandal
Miranda v. Arizona
16. Abolished the poll tax.
24th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
26th Amendment
Federalist Papers
17. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Tenements
Viet Nam
1st Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
18. 1860 - 1865
Treaty of Versailles
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Civil War
Muckrakers
19. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Susan B. Anthony
Dust Bowl
Domino Theory
Thomas Paine
20. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Emancipation Proclamation
3rd Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
League of Nations
21. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
FDIC
Nullification Crisis
Watergate
22. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Andrew Carnegie
Woodrow Wilson
Trench Warfare
Flappers
23. Early rock n ' roll performer
2nd Amendment
9th Amendment
Elvis Presley
18th Amendment
24. Sets a term limit for the President
George Washington
Industrialization
Fourteen Points
22nd Amendment
25. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Gloria Steinem
Barbed wire
26. Rights reserved to the people.
Jim Crow laws
9th Amendment
Rosa Parks
22nd Amendment
27. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
NATO (1959)
Upton Sinclair
1st Amendment
5th Amendment
28. Established the federal income tax.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Emancipation Proclamation
16th Amendment
3rd Amendment
29. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
Douglas MacArthur
WPA
Prohibition
30. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Susan B. Anthony
Checks and Balances
Muckrakers
Richard M. Nixon
31. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
Nikita Kruschev
Bobby Kennedy
William Jennings Bryan
32. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
John Scopes
24th Amendment
The Great Migration
Cattle Drives
33. President 1961-63
Berlin Airlift
John F. Kennedy
Andrew Carnegie
Malcolm X
34. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Political machines
Watergate
Bay of Pigs
Lyndon B. Johnson
35. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Booker T. Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Bobby Kennedy
36. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Jim Crow laws
Rough Riders
The Harlem Renaissance
Nikita Kruschev
37. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
John Scopes
Bobby Kennedy
15th Amendment
5th Amendment
38. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Rosa Parks
Nikita Kruschev
WPA
Dust Bowl
39. Trial by jury.
World War II
7th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
Jim Crow laws
40. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Sacco and Vanzetti
Susan B. Anthony
41. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Elvis Presley
Great Compromise
Dawes Act
Flappers
42. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Elvis Presley
Yellow Journalism
The War on Poverty
Segregation
43. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Jim Crow laws
Treaty of Versailles
Red Scare
Thomas Jefferson
44. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
21st Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Political machines
GI Bill
45. The right to vote for women.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Benjamin Franklin
19thAmendment
Neil Armstrong
46. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Warren G. Harding
Dust Bowl
Double V Campaign
Columbian Exchange
47. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
King George III
Fourteen Points
Populism
9th Amendment
48. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
John F. Kennedy
Island hopping
The Holocaust
Georgia O'Keefe
49. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
24th Amendment
WPA
Muckrakers
Emancipation Proclamation
50. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
SEC
Emancipation Proclamation
Thomas Jefferson