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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
U-2 Incident
Rough Riders
Immigration
Flappers
2. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Imperialism
William Jennings Bryan
U-2 Incident
26th Amendment
3. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Yellow Journalism
Barbed wire
Cuban Missile Crisis
Battle of Wounded Knee
4. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Neil Armstrong
Susan B. Anthony
Harry S. Truman
5. Founding father - politician - scientist
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
22nd Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
Benjamin Franklin
6. Trial by jury.
Barbed wire
7th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Joe McCarthy
7. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Island hopping
Elvis Presley
John J. Pershing
Urbanization
8. American painter from 1920's
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9. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Malcolm X
Fourteen Points
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Baker v. Carr
10. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Federalism
26th Amendment
Normandy
William H. Taft
11. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Henry Ford
Escobedo v. Illinois
John Scopes
Gideon v. Wainwright
12. The right to vote for women.
Free Enterprise Economy
19thAmendment
Barbed wire
George Washington
13. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Spanish - American War
Thomas Paine
Richard M. Nixon
Industrialization
14. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Medger Evers
Miranda v. Arizona
Nullification Crisis
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
15. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Muckrakers
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Marshall Plan (1948)
16. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Federalist Papers
Red Scare
17. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
World War II
24th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
Alfred Thayer Mahan
18. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
13th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
Douglas MacArthur
John F. Kennedy
19. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Charles Lindbergh
Treaty of Versailles
Cesar Chavez
Nikita Kruschev
20. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Shirley Chisholm
court packing
William H. Taft
Dawes Act
21. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Dust Bowl
Emancipation Proclamation
John J. Pershing
Imperialism
22. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Spanish - American War
21st Amendment
9th Amendment
23. Separation by race.
Andrew Carnegie
Cesar Chavez
Island hopping
Segregation
24. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
Neil Armstrong
Battle of Wounded Knee
Georgia O'Keefe
25. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Political machines
1st Amendment
George Washington
The Rosenberg's
26. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
2nd Amendment
Rough Riders
Cesar Chavez
27. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Containment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Holocaust
George Wallace
28. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Washington
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
29. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Prohibition
Homestead Act
Viet Nam
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
30. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
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31. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Baker v. Carr
William Jennings Bryan
Treaty of Versailles
Cuban Missile Crisis
32. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Viet Nam
Baker v. Carr
Calvin Coolidge
Susan B. Anthony
33. First form of government established by the 13 states.
15th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
Joe McCarthy
Charles Lindbergh
34. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
Henry Ford
Political machines
Prohibition
35. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Elvis Presley
Joe McCarthy
Industrialization
Warren G. Harding
36. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Andrew Carnegie
Woodrow Wilson
Joe McCarthy
Omar Bradley
37. President 1963-68
Watergate
4th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lyndon B. Johnson
38. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
Federalism
Medger Evers
Malcolm X
39. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
SEC
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Little Rock Nine
Joe McCarthy
40. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Georgia O'Keefe
The Scopes Trial
Pearl Harbor
Emancipation Proclamation
41. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
21st Amendment
Sputnik
Joe McCarthy
Malcolm X
42. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Nullification Crisis
Separation of Powers
Fourteen Points
Gloria Steinem
43. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
13th Amendment
Korean War
Transcontinental railroad
5th Amendment
44. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Baby Boom
Checks and Balances
Malcolm X
Separation of Powers
45. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Battle of Midway
Free Enterprise Economy
U-2 Incident
46. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
15th Amendment
World War I
FDIC
Omar Bradley
47. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
George Washington
Emancipation Proclamation
Viet Nam
World War I
48. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Jacob Riis
King George III
Andrew Carnegie
49. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
The Holocaust
Emancipation Proclamation
Nikita Kruschev
Pearl Harbor
50. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
7th Amendment
Fourteen Points
Gideon v. Wainwright
Bill of Rights
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