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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. President 1961-63
Bobby Kennedy
William H. Taft
John F. Kennedy
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
2. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Medger Evers
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Segregation
Brown v. Board of Education
3. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
John F. Kennedy
Jonas Salk
Martin Luther King Jr
24th Amendment
4. President of the US during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Containment
19thAmendment
Populism
5. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
Reconstruction
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bobby Kennedy
6. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
7th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Command Economy
7. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
18th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
Treaty of Versailles
Shirley Chisholm
8. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Upton Sinclair
Bill of Rights
The Harlem Renaissance
9. Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
Viet Nam
Rosa Parks
Domino Theory
10. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
26th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
Imperialism
Checks and Balances
11. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
18th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
Social Darwinism
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
12. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
Social Darwinism
William H. Taft
John J. Pershing
13. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
U.S.S. Maine
Gloria Steinem
Separation of Powers
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14. Power is shared between the states and national government.
The Great Migration
22nd Amendment
William H. Taft
Federalism
15. Abolished the poll tax.
Red Scare
24th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
Manifest Destiny
16. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
5th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
Checks and Balances
Dwight D. Eisenhower
17. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Tenements
Shirley Chisholm
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Muckrakers
18. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
Plessy v. Ferguson
Nikita Kruschev
Bracero Program
19. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
George Washington
Bracero Program
20. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Baker v. Carr
Island hopping
Reconstruction
The War on Poverty
21. No cruel or unusual punishment.
William 'Boss' Tweed
WEB DuBois
8th Amendment
Red Scare
22. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
22nd Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Bay of Pigs
Medger Evers
23. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Miranda v. Arizona
26th Amendment
Muckrakers
Andrew Carnegie
24. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
The Holocaust
Henry Ford
The Harlem Renaissance
25. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Great Migration
George Wallace
Checks and Balances
17th Amendment
26. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
WEB DuBois
Martin Luther King Jr
27. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
John F. Kennedy
John Scopes
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
28. No quartering of troops during peace time
3rd Amendment
Bay of Pigs
Richard M. Nixon
Thomas Paine
29. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Transcontinental railroad
The Rosenberg's
Joe McCarthy
30. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Booker T. Washington
Gloria Steinem
17th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
31. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Rough Riders
Columbian Exchange
Clarence Darrow
Populism
32. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Jonas Salk
League of Nations
WPA
13th Amendment
33. Rights reserved to the people.
Gideon v. Wainwright
court packing
Bay of Pigs
9th Amendment
34. President 1963-68
Tenements
5th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Spanish - American War
35. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
17th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
Neil Armstrong
Thomas Paine
36. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Homestead Act
Georgia O'Keefe
The War on Poverty
Ronald Reagan
37. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Yellow Journalism
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Battle of Midway
Normandy
38. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Jacob Riis
Shirley Chisholm
John Scopes
Columbian Exchange
39. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
GI Bill
Spanish - American War
24th Amendment
The Holocaust
40. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Federalism
Yellow Journalism
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Shirley Chisholm
41. 1939 - 1945
Watergate
Calvin Coolidge
World War II
Dwight D. Eisenhower
42. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Andrew Carnegie
The Scopes Trial
Urbanization
Fidel Castro
43. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Woodrow Wilson
U-2 Incident
14th Amendment
George Wallace
44. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Fourteen Points
Laissez Faire
FDIC
GI Bill
45. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
The Baby Boom
Jim Crow laws
Red Scare
Truman Doctrine (1947)
46. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
8th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
47. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Columbian Exchange
Homestead Act
William 'Boss' Tweed
Martin Luther King Jr
48. Communist leader of Cuba.
Normandy
Fidel Castro
Bobby Kennedy
Nullification Crisis
49. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Prohibition
Clarence Darrow
Gloria Steinem
Cattle Drives
50. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Upton Sinclair
George Wallace
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment