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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.
Harry S. Truman
Jim Crow laws
10th Amendment
Malcolm X
2. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Bay of Pigs
Teapot Dome Scandal
Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
3. American painter from 1920's
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4. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
5th Amendment
Bay of Pigs
FDIC
Clarence Darrow
5. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Berlin Wall
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Dawes Act
Korean War
6. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm
9th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
FDIC
7. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Yellow Journalism
Rosa Parks
Federalist Papers
Immigration
8. Established the federal income tax.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Yellow Journalism
Free Enterprise Economy
16th Amendment
9. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
The Little Rock Nine
Dawes Act
Yellow Journalism
Gideon v. Wainwright
10. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Laissez Faire
Dawes Act
9th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
11. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Transcontinental railroad
John J. Pershing
Martin Luther King Jr
12. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
World War I
Homestead Act
John J. Pershing
Harry S. Truman
13. No unlawful search and seizure.
Flappers
John Scopes
3rd Amendment
4th Amendment
14. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Harlem Renaissance
Spanish - American War
The Articles of Confederation
15. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Cuban Missile Crisis
7th Amendment
14th Amendment
Omar Bradley
16. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Manifest Destiny
9th Amendment
Dawes Act
Checks and Balances
17. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Checks and Balances
Berlin Wall
Plessy v. Ferguson
John F. Kennedy
18. No quartering of troops during peace time
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Berlin Airlift
3rd Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
19. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Korean War
Abraham Lincoln
Brown v. Board of Education
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
20. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Homestead Act
Free Enterprise Economy
5th Amendment
Henry Ford
21. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Pearl Harbor
Thomas Jefferson
Martin Luther King Jr
Nikita Kruschev
22. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Domino Theory
Sacco and Vanzetti
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Scopes
23. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Barbed wire
Containment
4th Amendment
8th Amendment
24. United Farm Workers activist
Great Compromise
Island hopping
Cesar Chavez
Dawes Act
25. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Yellow Journalism
Prohibition
Bay of Pigs
SEC
26. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Hoovervilles
Susan B. Anthony
Bracero Program
Nikita Kruschev
27. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
13th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Command Economy
The Holocaust
28. The right to vote for women.
Great Society
Andrew Carnegie
19thAmendment
Bracero Program
29. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
The Holocaust
Andrew Carnegie
Teapot Dome Scandal
Sputnik
30. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
5th Amendment
The War on Poverty
Domino Theory
Thomas Paine
31. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
court packing
Plessy v. Ferguson
Baker v. Carr
The Articles of Confederation
32. Power is shared between the states and national government.
1st Amendment
Battle of Midway
Federalism
Manifest Destiny
33. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Battle of Wounded Knee
Emancipation Proclamation
Bobby Kennedy
John J. Pershing
34. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Red Scare
Cesar Chavez
William 'Boss' Tweed
John J. Pershing
35. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Industrialization
The Great Migration
15th Amendment
Sacco and Vanzetti
36. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Watergate
GI Bill
18th Amendment
Red Scare
37. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Populism
6th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
Containment
38. President of the US during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Muckrakers
The Little Rock Nine
16th Amendment
39. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Populism
Industrialization
SEC
40. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Command Economy
Laissez Faire
15th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
41. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
2nd Amendment
Fourteen Points
Homestead Act
Martin Luther King Jr
42. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Dawes Act
Bobby Kennedy
Great Compromise
U-2 Incident
43. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Industrialization
The Scopes Trial
Sputnik
The Little Rock Nine
44. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
26th Amendment
court packing
Homestead Act
The Harlem Renaissance
45. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
Theodore Roosevelt
4th Amendment
WPA
46. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
Urbanization
Abraham Lincoln
The New Deal
47. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Federalist Papers
Omar Bradley
Laissez Faire
Gloria Steinem
48. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Island hopping
13th Amendment
Cattle Drives
Bill of Rights
49. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Free Enterprise Economy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Baker v. Carr
Domino Theory
50. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Double V Campaign
Henry Ford
1st Amendment