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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Gideon v. Wainwright
Charles Lindbergh
Jim Crow laws
2. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
1st Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
Cesar Chavez
Bay of Pigs
3. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Omar Bradley
Warren G. Harding
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Joe McCarthy
4. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Federalist Papers
Andrew Carnegie
Berlin Airlift
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
5. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Martin Luther King Jr
U-2 Incident
2nd Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
6. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
17th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
10th Amendment
21st Amendment
7. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Red Scare
Domino Theory
4th Amendment
8. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
GI Bill
Charles Lindbergh
League of Nations
court packing
9. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Rough Riders
The Scopes Trial
Upton Sinclair
7th Amendment
10. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
18th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
Harry S. Truman
League of Nations
11. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Political machines
Richard M. Nixon
Barbed wire
Upton Sinclair
12. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Elvis Presley
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
William H. Taft
Fourteen Points
13. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
The Jazz Age
Double V Campaign
William Jennings Bryan
14. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
The Baby Boom
Tenements
Teapot Dome Scandal
Nikita Kruschev
15. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
The Great Migration
Tenements
Federalist Papers
Plessy v. Ferguson
16. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Homestead Act
Reynolds v. Sims
court packing
John F. Kennedy
17. President during Roaring 20's
WEB DuBois
court packing
Checks and Balances
Calvin Coolidge
18. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Separation of Powers
Baker v. Carr
Island hopping
Bracero Program
19. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
26th Amendment
George Washington
Rough Riders
20. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Warren G. Harding
Sputnik
Laissez Faire
Cattle Drives
21. Abolished the poll tax.
24th Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
Transcontinental railroad
John F. Kennedy
22. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Ronald Reagan
William Jennings Bryan
Gloria Steinem
Treaty of Versailles
23. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
Segregation
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
24. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
George Wallace
Treaty of Versailles
Douglas MacArthur
Flappers
25. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Social Darwinism
Great Compromise
26. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Political machines
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Shirley Chisholm
GI Bill
27. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
1st Amendment
Harry S. Truman
Charles Lindbergh
The Holocaust
28. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Transcontinental railroad
Teapot Dome Scandal
Berlin Airlift
Susan B. Anthony
29. 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
WPA
Plessy v. Ferguson
Columbian Exchange
30. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Georgia O'Keefe
9th Amendment
WPA
Marshall Plan (1948)
31. Abolished slavery
Battle of Midway
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
13th Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
32. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Elvis Presley
John Scopes
Abraham Lincoln
World War II
33. Founding father - politician - scientist
Benjamin Franklin
Upton Sinclair
15th Amendment
Double V Campaign
34. President of the US during the Civil War.
Upton Sinclair
Abraham Lincoln
Double V Campaign
Spanish - American War
35. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Transcontinental railroad
Reynolds v. Sims
The Harlem Renaissance
Immigration
36. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Samuel Adams
Harry S. Truman
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
37. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Bracero Program
Rosa Parks
Andrew Carnegie
1st Amendment
38. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Holocaust
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
3rd Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
39. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
NATO (1959)
Truman Doctrine (1947)
U-2 Incident
Plessy v. Ferguson
40. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Sacco and Vanzetti
17th Amendment
FDIC
Prohibition
41. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Theodore Roosevelt
Domino Theory
Sacco and Vanzetti
Normandy
42. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
1st Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Industrialization
U.S.S. Maine
43. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
Populism
Fourteen Points
George Washington
44. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gideon v. Wainwright
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Miranda v. Arizona
45. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
SEC
3rd Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
Jonas Salk
46. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Barbed wire
The Holocaust
47. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Richard M. Nixon
14th Amendment
Dust Bowl
Manifest Destiny
48. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Georgia O'Keefe
Fourteen Points
The Little Rock Nine
Booker T. Washington
49. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
George Wallace
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Elvis Presley
Korean War
50. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Upton Sinclair
Dust Bowl
Social Darwinism
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
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