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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
John F. Kennedy
Viet Nam
2nd Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
2. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Spanish - American War
Benjamin Franklin
Populism
Teapot Dome Scandal
3. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Rough Riders
Thomas Paine
SEC
Pearl Harbor
4. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Baker v. Carr
21st Amendment
Warren G. Harding
Command Economy
5. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
4th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
Korean War
6. President of the US during the Civil War.
Double V Campaign
Lyndon B. Johnson
Checks and Balances
Abraham Lincoln
7. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
John F. Kennedy
Island hopping
Bill of Rights
Richard M. Nixon
8. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Reynolds v. Sims
Brown v. Board of Education
Free Enterprise Economy
9. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Rough Riders
1st Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
George Washington
10. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Theodore Roosevelt
Shirley Chisholm
Fidel Castro
10th Amendment
11. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
King George III
World War I
Political machines
Pearl Harbor
12. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Dawes Act
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cesar Chavez
Teapot Dome Scandal
13. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
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14. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Cattle Drives
Columbian Exchange
13th Amendment
Reconstruction
15. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Fourteen Points
WPA
U-2 Incident
Barbed wire
16. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
8th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
The Harlem Renaissance
League of Nations
17. Powers reserved to the states
Samuel Adams
10th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
16th Amendment
18. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Island hopping
Normandy
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
19. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Trench Warfare
The Great Migration
Great Society
The Jazz Age
20. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
NATO (1959)
Political machines
Richard M. Nixon
Gideon v. Wainwright
21. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
9th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
1st Amendment
Laissez Faire
22. Movement of people into a country from another country.
1st Amendment
The Holocaust
Bill of Rights
Immigration
23. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Viet Nam
Malcolm X
Plessy v. Ferguson
13th Amendment
24. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Great Migration
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Dust Bowl
Susan B. Anthony
25. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
John Scopes
Charles Lindbergh
Cattle Drives
26. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Shirley Chisholm
15th Amendment
U-2 Incident
court packing
27. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Miranda v. Arizona
Gloria Steinem
WEB DuBois
Jacob Riis
28. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Urbanization
John F. Kennedy
Command Economy
Spanish - American War
29. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Rosenberg's
FDIC
9th Amendment
30. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Jim Crow laws
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
WEB DuBois
Marshall Plan (1948)
31. No unlawful search and seizure.
4th Amendment
Spanish - American War
U.S.S. Maine
court packing
32. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
William H. Taft
King George III
Martin Luther King Jr
26th Amendment
33. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Fourteen Points
Martin Luther King Jr
Marshall Plan (1948)
19thAmendment
34. President 1961-63
Yellow Journalism
The Holocaust
13th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
35. Abolished the poll tax.
Escobedo v. Illinois
World War II
Containment
24th Amendment
36. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Fidel Castro
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Cattle Drives
37. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
GI Bill
court packing
24th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
38. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Berlin Airlift
The Little Rock Nine
Battle of Midway
Woodrow Wilson
39. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Jim Crow laws
Red Scare
U.S.S. Maine
GI Bill
40. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Brown v. Board of Education
Bobby Kennedy
John J. Pershing
9th Amendment
41. Separation by race.
Thomas Paine
Segregation
John Scopes
Jonas Salk
42. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm
Cesar Chavez
Plessy v. Ferguson
Trench Warfare
43. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Clarence Darrow
Free Enterprise Economy
Barbed wire
Watergate
44. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
George Washington
Sputnik
U-2 Incident
45. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
court packing
Command Economy
46. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Rosa Parks
Muckrakers
Red Scare
Reconstruction
47. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Baker v. Carr
The War on Poverty
George Wallace
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
48. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Red Scare
Jacob Riis
NATO (1959)
Fourteen Points
49. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
George Wallace
Bill of Rights
15th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
50. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Joe McCarthy
The Holocaust
Malcolm X