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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
The Great Migration
Omar Bradley
Gideon v. Wainwright
2. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Transcontinental railroad
Martin Luther King Jr
Calvin Coolidge
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
3. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Yellow Journalism
Populism
Flappers
Tenements
4. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Clarence Darrow
Yellow Journalism
Plessy v. Ferguson
Segregation
5. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Bobby Kennedy
Booker T. Washington
15th Amendment
Political machines
6. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Thomas Jefferson
Teapot Dome Scandal
Omar Bradley
7. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibition
World War I
court packing
8. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
George Washington
Plessy v. Ferguson
Populism
Elvis Presley
9. President 1980-88.
NATO (1959)
Segregation
Gideon v. Wainwright
Ronald Reagan
10. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Reynolds v. Sims
Baker v. Carr
Muckrakers
The Holocaust
11. No quartering of troops during peace time
The Little Rock Nine
Watergate
Teapot Dome Scandal
3rd Amendment
12. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
21st Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
World War I
Containment
13. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Barbed wire
Marshall Plan (1948)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
14. President 1961-63
Sacco and Vanzetti
Upton Sinclair
John J. Pershing
John F. Kennedy
15. The direct election of US Senators.
William Jennings Bryan
17th Amendment
19thAmendment
8th Amendment
16. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Transcontinental railroad
Neil Armstrong
24th Amendment
Nullification Crisis
17. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
George Wallace
The War on Poverty
Baker v. Carr
Federalist Papers
18. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Georgia O'Keefe
Barbed wire
Cuban Missile Crisis
Woodrow Wilson
19. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Command Economy
William Jennings Bryan
Plessy v. Ferguson
Escobedo v. Illinois
20. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
League of Nations
24th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
21. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Bracero Program
Omar Bradley
Muckrakers
Federalist Papers
22. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
World War II
Spanish - American War
Double V Campaign
Checks and Balances
23. Abolished slavery
John F. Kennedy
Great Society
13th Amendment
The War on Poverty
24. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Shirley Chisholm
7th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Lyndon B. Johnson
25. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Tenements
22nd Amendment
Separation of Powers
Bracero Program
26. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Clarence Darrow
John Scopes
Calvin Coolidge
Susan B. Anthony
27. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Dust Bowl
16th Amendment
Segregation
Flappers
28. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Battle of Midway
Battle of Wounded Knee
Samuel Adams
Muckrakers
29. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
The Little Rock Nine
The Scopes Trial
Free Enterprise Economy
Segregation
30. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Thomas Paine
Separation of Powers
Reynolds v. Sims
Omar Bradley
31. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
The Great Migration
Brown v. Board of Education
Warren G. Harding
Bracero Program
32. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Berlin Airlift
3rd Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
33. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
The Scopes Trial
SEC
Douglas MacArthur
34. President during Roaring 20's
Great Compromise
World War I
The Scopes Trial
Calvin Coolidge
35. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Bracero Program
Dust Bowl
Rough Riders
Gideon v. Wainwright
36. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
19thAmendment
Omar Bradley
Joe McCarthy
Battle of Midway
37. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Domino Theory
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Booker T. Washington
6th Amendment
38. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
Elvis Presley
Reconstruction
Civil War
39. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Nullification Crisis
Federalism
World War I
Malcolm X
40. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Great Compromise
Richard M. Nixon
Cesar Chavez
Spanish - American War
41. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
World War II
Checks and Balances
SEC
Urbanization
42. Founding father - politician - scientist
Benjamin Franklin
The Jazz Age
World War II
Prohibition
43. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Great Society
Bay of Pigs
Korean War
Truman Doctrine (1947)
44. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
22nd Amendment
Command Economy
Imperialism
Jacob Riis
45. Established the federal income tax.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Harry S. Truman
16th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
46. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Korean War
Watergate
Muckrakers
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
47. Competition between European countries to create empires.
The New Deal
U-2 Incident
Imperialism
Samuel Adams
48. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Bay of Pigs
League of Nations
Fourteen Points
Barbed wire
49. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
U.S.S. Maine
Omar Bradley
Prohibition
Hoovervilles
50. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
League of Nations
Prohibition
Pearl Harbor
Emancipation Proclamation
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