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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. President of the US during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Spanish - American War
Bay of Pigs
Rosa Parks
2. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Douglas MacArthur
Fidel Castro
The Harlem Renaissance
19thAmendment
3. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
WPA
Samuel Adams
The Baby Boom
4. First astronaut to land on the moon.
24th Amendment
John Scopes
Clarence Darrow
Neil Armstrong
5. Early rock n ' roll performer
Pearl Harbor
Elvis Presley
Federalist Papers
19thAmendment
6. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Watergate
17th Amendment
U.S.S. Maine
Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Paine
13th Amendment
Dust Bowl
8. Founding father - politician - scientist
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
18th Amendment
Marshall Plan (1948)
Benjamin Franklin
9. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Laissez Faire
Pearl Harbor
Civil War
NATO (1959)
10. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
4th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
19thAmendment
11. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Brown v. Board of Education
Treaty of Versailles
Cesar Chavez
The Little Rock Nine
12. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
Cuban Missile Crisis
Barbed wire
World War II
13. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
4th Amendment
22nd Amendment
Thomas Paine
14. Abolished the poll tax.
Nullification Crisis
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Medger Evers
24th Amendment
15. Invented the vaccine for polio
Immigration
Jonas Salk
John F. Kennedy
6th Amendment
16. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
Cattle Drives
Domino Theory
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
17. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Transcontinental railroad
The Little Rock Nine
Berlin Wall
Columbian Exchange
18. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Watergate
Baker v. Carr
William Jennings Bryan
Federalist Papers
19. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Reynolds v. Sims
Manifest Destiny
5th Amendment
15th Amendment
20. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
FDIC
Red Scare
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Jacob Riis
21. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Nikita Kruschev
Viet Nam
Spanish - American War
22. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bay of Pigs
George Washington
Watergate
23. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Normandy
Muckrakers
Jim Crow laws
24. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Dust Bowl
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Muckrakers
19thAmendment
25. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Calvin Coolidge
Manifest Destiny
21st Amendment
Separation of Powers
26. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Trench Warfare
1st Amendment
6th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
27. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Miranda v. Arizona
Calvin Coolidge
The Great Migration
18th Amendment
28. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Industrialization
William Jennings Bryan
Hoovervilles
29. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Homestead Act
Upton Sinclair
Ronald Reagan
30. No quartering of troops during peace time
3rd Amendment
William 'Boss' Tweed
19thAmendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
31. Competition between European countries to create empires.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Imperialism
Douglas MacArthur
Teapot Dome Scandal
32. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
Baker v. Carr
William H. Taft
Checks and Balances
33. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Treaty of Versailles
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Sacco and Vanzetti
Upton Sinclair
34. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
WEB DuBois
William H. Taft
Fourteen Points
Bobby Kennedy
35. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr
Georgia O'Keefe
Bill of Rights
Gloria Steinem
36. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
21st Amendment
Booker T. Washington
Homestead Act
Domino Theory
37. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Bill of Rights
2nd Amendment
Nullification Crisis
Reynolds v. Sims
38. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Medger Evers
Bill of Rights
Federalism
Industrialization
39. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Medger Evers
Domino Theory
SEC
1st Amendment
40. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
3rd Amendment
17th Amendment
Dawes Act
14th Amendment
41. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
William Jennings Bryan
Social Darwinism
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
The Scopes Trial
42. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
The Articles of Confederation
Berlin Wall
Susan B. Anthony
Columbian Exchange
43. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Dawes Act
Jacob Riis
7th Amendment
Homestead Act
44. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Henry Ford
Federalism
8th Amendment
Dawes Act
45. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Clarence Darrow
Shirley Chisholm
The Baby Boom
Rough Riders
46. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Joe McCarthy
George Wallace
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
47. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tenements
U.S.S. Maine
Jim Crow laws
Thomas Paine
48. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
WEB DuBois
Bobby Kennedy
Muckrakers
Great Society
49. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Elvis Presley
John Scopes
Segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson
50. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Island hopping
Susan B. Anthony
Harry S. Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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