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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Watergate
6th Amendment
Malcolm X
Cattle Drives
2. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Island hopping
Separation of Powers
Columbian Exchange
Laissez Faire
3. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Great Migration
Barbed wire
Jacob Riis
Bobby Kennedy
4. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Scopes Trial
Dwight D. Eisenhower
5. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
18th Amendment
Upton Sinclair
Tenements
Command Economy
6. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Urbanization
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Viet Nam
Battle of Midway
7. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Emancipation Proclamation
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Bill of Rights
Transcontinental railroad
8. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Escobedo v. Illinois
The New Deal
Civil War
9. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
Clarence Darrow
Truman Doctrine (1947)
10. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr
7th Amendment
court packing
Political machines
11. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Federalist Papers
Calvin Coolidge
Benjamin Franklin
12. 1939 - 1945
World War II
Alfred Thayer Mahan
21st Amendment
Political machines
13. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Andrew Carnegie
Homestead Act
Charles Lindbergh
World War I
14. The right to vote for women.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
19thAmendment
John Scopes
The Great Migration
15. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Tenements
The Holocaust
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Populism
16. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
14th Amendment
The Scopes Trial
NATO (1959)
Malcolm X
17. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
William H. Taft
10th Amendment
Great Society
WEB DuBois
18. The prohibition of alcohol.
Plessy v. Ferguson
19thAmendment
18th Amendment
SEC
19. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Elvis Presley
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Jacob Riis
3rd Amendment
20. Founding father - politician - scientist
4th Amendment
17th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
The Great Migration
21. Separation by race.
William H. Taft
Reconstruction
Lyndon B. Johnson
Segregation
22. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Clarence Darrow
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Segregation
Susan B. Anthony
23. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Command Economy
Federalism
16th Amendment
Double V Campaign
24. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Richard M. Nixon
The Jazz Age
Social Darwinism
Containment
25. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Reconstruction
26. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Island hopping
Great Society
Clarence Darrow
The Baby Boom
27. President 1961-63
Baker v. Carr
Normandy
Thomas Paine
John F. Kennedy
28. The right to a fast and public trial.
Clarence Darrow
6th Amendment
Fidel Castro
Pearl Harbor
29. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Viet Nam
18th Amendment
George Washington
The Little Rock Nine
30. President 1963-68
Manifest Destiny
7th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Truman Doctrine (1947)
31. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
Tenements
William 'Boss' Tweed
Social Darwinism
32. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Rosa Parks
Flappers
Populism
Sacco and Vanzetti
33. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Richard M. Nixon
Medger Evers
George Washington
Containment
34. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
The Jazz Age
Dust Bowl
4th Amendment
Harry S. Truman
35. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
The Jazz Age
Harry S. Truman
Miranda v. Arizona
William H. Taft
36. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Reconstruction
The Little Rock Nine
4th Amendment
John J. Pershing
37. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Jim Crow laws
Gideon v. Wainwright
Civil War
George Wallace
38. No unlawful search and seizure.
Martin Luther King Jr
4th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
15th Amendment
39. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Treaty of Versailles
Thomas Jefferson
Viet Nam
Martin Luther King Jr
40. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Calvin Coolidge
Populism
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Spanish - American War
41. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Battle of Wounded Knee
1st Amendment
Federalist Papers
Gloria Steinem
42. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Nullification Crisis
Cesar Chavez
Industrialization
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
43. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
John F. Kennedy
Reynolds v. Sims
Douglas MacArthur
Clarence Darrow
44. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Bobby Kennedy
3rd Amendment
18th Amendment
Trench Warfare
45. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Abraham Lincoln
Cuban Missile Crisis
Baker v. Carr
Rough Riders
46. President during Roaring 20's
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Calvin Coolidge
Henry Ford
Andrew Carnegie
47. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Trench Warfare
19thAmendment
Transcontinental railroad
1st Amendment
48. Sets a term limit for the President
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Alfred Thayer Mahan
22nd Amendment
SEC
49. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
The Articles of Confederation
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
22nd Amendment
Barbed wire
50. Invented the vaccine for polio
Charles Lindbergh
Richard M. Nixon
Jonas Salk
Teapot Dome Scandal