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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
George Washington
Jacob Riis
2nd Amendment
Great Society
2. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
17th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
14th Amendment
Island hopping
3. No quartering of troops during peace time
GI Bill
3rd Amendment
Sputnik
Dawes Act
4. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
Immigration
Bobby Kennedy
court packing
5. The right to vote for women.
Calvin Coolidge
19thAmendment
Henry Ford
FDIC
6. Abolished slavery
Calvin Coolidge
Berlin Wall
13th Amendment
Bill of Rights
7. No unlawful search and seizure.
Thomas Jefferson
Island hopping
4th Amendment
Imperialism
8. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
9th Amendment
Watergate
Columbian Exchange
Rosa Parks
9. Trial by jury.
7th Amendment
GI Bill
Medger Evers
Omar Bradley
10. Abolished the poll tax.
Civil War
24th Amendment
The Little Rock Nine
Prohibition
11. United Farm Workers activist
U-2 Incident
Muckrakers
Cesar Chavez
Transcontinental railroad
12. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Containment
Medger Evers
Political machines
Sputnik
13. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Korean War
Checks and Balances
Warren G. Harding
WEB DuBois
14. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
9th Amendment
Medger Evers
Harry S. Truman
King George III
15. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
13th Amendment
Great Society
Prohibition
16. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
19thAmendment
Joe McCarthy
Berlin Wall
Rosa Parks
17. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
SEC
Imperialism
Georgia O'Keefe
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
18. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Muckrakers
The War on Poverty
Columbian Exchange
Fourteen Points
19. Sets a term limit for the President
Great Compromise
22nd Amendment
Dust Bowl
The Baby Boom
20. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Alfred Thayer Mahan
18th Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15th Amendment
21. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
18th Amendment
Bracero Program
5th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
22. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Cuban Missile Crisis
GI Bill
Segregation
1st Amendment
23. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Hoovervilles
Manifest Destiny
1st Amendment
24. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Jacob Riis
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
14th Amendment
Cattle Drives
25. President during Roaring 20's
Baker v. Carr
Calvin Coolidge
Double V Campaign
Cuban Missile Crisis
26. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
John J. Pershing
GI Bill
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
27. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Hoovervilles
26th Amendment
Bill of Rights
Brown v. Board of Education
28. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
17th Amendment
The War on Poverty
Reynolds v. Sims
U.S.S. Maine
29. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Berlin Wall
Gideon v. Wainwright
Rosa Parks
John Scopes
30. Established the federal income tax.
Bobby Kennedy
William H. Taft
Separation of Powers
16th Amendment
31. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Dawes Act
26th Amendment
World War II
Spanish - American War
32. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Red Scare
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The New Deal
33. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Treaty of Versailles
Baker v. Carr
Normandy
Escobedo v. Illinois
34. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Booker T. Washington
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
The Harlem Renaissance
Teapot Dome Scandal
35. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Escobedo v. Illinois
The Great Migration
Korean War
36. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Sputnik
2nd Amendment
13th Amendment
Containment
37. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Berlin Airlift
Muckrakers
The Articles of Confederation
Treaty of Versailles
38. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
Samuel Adams
Double V Campaign
Cattle Drives
39. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Bobby Kennedy
The New Deal
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Red Scare
40. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Trench Warfare
Rosa Parks
Korean War
41. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
Battle of Midway
Clarence Darrow
Urbanization
42. Founding father - politician - scientist
Cuban Missile Crisis
Double V Campaign
John F. Kennedy
Benjamin Franklin
43. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
John J. Pershing
Domino Theory
Double V Campaign
John Scopes
44. President of the US during the Civil War.
Double V Campaign
Abraham Lincoln
William Jennings Bryan
SEC
45. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Georgia O'Keefe
Douglas MacArthur
Berlin Airlift
22nd Amendment
46. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
The New Deal
Clarence Darrow
16th Amendment
The Rosenberg's
47. 1939 - 1945
World War II
Richard M. Nixon
Georgia O'Keefe
Federalist Papers
48. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Upton Sinclair
Populism
Treaty of Versailles
49. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Bill of Rights
Cesar Chavez
court packing
Plessy v. Ferguson
50. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
The Little Rock Nine
SEC
FDIC
Bay of Pigs