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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Muckrakers
Trench Warfare
5th Amendment
Omar Bradley
2. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Jonas Salk
Korean War
The War on Poverty
Henry Ford
3. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Rosenberg's
Clarence Darrow
Neil Armstrong
Charles Lindbergh
4. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Woodrow Wilson
Brown v. Board of Education
The Great Migration
Laissez Faire
5. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
26th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
21st Amendment
Normandy
6. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Jonas Salk
Clarence Darrow
Normandy
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
7. Rights reserved to the people.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Manifest Destiny
9th Amendment
Prohibition
8. Abolished slavery
18th Amendment
13th Amendment
Flappers
Imperialism
9. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Susan B. Anthony
Pearl Harbor
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Containment
Korean War
John J. Pershing
The Scopes Trial
11. No cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Bill of Rights
Urbanization
Richard M. Nixon
12. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
John F. Kennedy
Shirley Chisholm
9th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
13. Powers reserved to the states
Cuban Missile Crisis
10th Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe
Berlin Wall
14. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Baker v. Carr
WEB DuBois
15. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Korean War
Henry Ford
Abraham Lincoln
Manifest Destiny
16. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Andrew Carnegie
Bracero Program
Henry Ford
Marshall Plan (1948)
17. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
21st Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Flappers
18. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Reconstruction
WPA
Abraham Lincoln
Rough Riders
19. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
League of Nations
Booker T. Washington
Benjamin Franklin
The Rosenberg's
20. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Checks and Balances
Political machines
Omar Bradley
Domino Theory
21. The direct election of US Senators.
Separation of Powers
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
17th Amendment
Henry Ford
22. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Escobedo v. Illinois
The Jazz Age
7th Amendment
1st Amendment
23. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
GI Bill
Baker v. Carr
Muckrakers
SEC
24. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Flappers
10th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Martin Luther King Jr
25. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Tenements
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
2nd Amendment
26. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
Benjamin Franklin
GI Bill
Federalism
27. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
Command Economy
NATO (1959)
Fidel Castro
28. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Escobedo v. Illinois
Teapot Dome Scandal
Charles Lindbergh
Muckrakers
29. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
10th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
World War I
Tenements
30. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Pearl Harbor
7th Amendment
Henry Ford
John J. Pershing
31. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Civil War
World War I
WEB DuBois
Sputnik
32. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
19thAmendment
George Washington
Baker v. Carr
Dawes Act
33. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Rough Riders
William H. Taft
Charles Lindbergh
Separation of Powers
34. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Bay of Pigs
Andrew Carnegie
Industrialization
4th Amendment
35. The right to vote for women.
19thAmendment
Ronald Reagan
Miranda v. Arizona
Theodore Roosevelt
36. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Federalist Papers
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Baker v. Carr
Containment
37. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Escobedo v. Illinois
Neil Armstrong
Imperialism
38. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Transcontinental railroad
Civil War
Brown v. Board of Education
Martin Luther King Jr
39. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Harry S. Truman
Domino Theory
William H. Taft
Battle of Midway
40. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Populism
8th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
21st Amendment
41. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Transcontinental railroad
William H. Taft
Trench Warfare
2nd Amendment
42. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Lyndon B. Johnson
10th Amendment
Viet Nam
The Jazz Age
43. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Booker T. Washington
The New Deal
14th Amendment
Berlin Wall
44. No unlawful search and seizure.
Social Darwinism
Nullification Crisis
Columbian Exchange
4th Amendment
45. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
Industrialization
17th Amendment
Cesar Chavez
46. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
The Baby Boom
Ronald Reagan
Treaty of Versailles
Jacob Riis
47. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
19thAmendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Booker T. Washington
NATO (1959)
48. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Sputnik
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Reconstruction
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
49. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Gideon v. Wainwright
Columbian Exchange
Cuban Missile Crisis
Barbed wire
50. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Harlem Renaissance
Baker v. Carr
Calvin Coolidge
Plessy v. Ferguson