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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
The Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Miranda v. Arizona
Free Enterprise Economy
2. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
The War on Poverty
William H. Taft
Neil Armstrong
Immigration
3. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Joe McCarthy
26th Amendment
Upton Sinclair
4. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Civil War
League of Nations
Segregation
Sputnik
5. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
26th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Immigration
6. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
WPA
The War on Poverty
Federalism
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
7. 1860 - 1865
Flappers
Yellow Journalism
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Civil War
8. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
15th Amendment
Double V Campaign
Susan B. Anthony
Tenements
9. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
SEC
John Scopes
Tenements
10. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
WPA
Jacob Riis
Spanish - American War
George Wallace
11. President during Roaring 20's
Teapot Dome Scandal
Industrialization
Bobby Kennedy
Calvin Coolidge
12. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
Reconstruction
The New Deal
Cattle Drives
13. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Henry Ford
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Dust Bowl
24th Amendment
14. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
WPA
Federalist Papers
4th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
15. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Island hopping
Upton Sinclair
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
16. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Treaty of Versailles
Warren G. Harding
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Social Darwinism
17. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Battle of Wounded Knee
14th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Great Society
18. Communist leader of Cuba.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
6th Amendment
Fidel Castro
Escobedo v. Illinois
19. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Teapot Dome Scandal
Bay of Pigs
4th Amendment
20. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Gloria Steinem
The Jazz Age
Booker T. Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
21. Invented the vaccine for polio
Cesar Chavez
Jonas Salk
Jim Crow laws
Spanish - American War
22. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Warren G. Harding
Dawes Act
Shirley Chisholm
Bracero Program
23. Abolished the poll tax.
Susan B. Anthony
Richard M. Nixon
24th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
24. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Command Economy
Pearl Harbor
8th Amendment
Containment
25. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Joe McCarthy
Jacob Riis
Bobby Kennedy
FDIC
26. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Checks and Balances
Joe McCarthy
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
27. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
George Wallace
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Teapot Dome Scandal
24th Amendment
28. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Elvis Presley
The Harlem Renaissance
Fourteen Points
29. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Checks and Balances
Domino Theory
Warren G. Harding
14th Amendment
30. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Escobedo v. Illinois
John J. Pershing
Fidel Castro
Checks and Balances
31. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Transcontinental railroad
John J. Pershing
John F. Kennedy
Political machines
32. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
U-2 Incident
WEB DuBois
Great Compromise
Red Scare
33. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Bobby Kennedy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Reconstruction
34. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
21st Amendment
Jonas Salk
Cuban Missile Crisis
5th Amendment
35. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
John J. Pershing
League of Nations
John F. Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson
36. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Treaty of Versailles
21st Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
37. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Immigration
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
League of Nations
Thomas Jefferson
38. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Free Enterprise Economy
Calvin Coolidge
Cesar Chavez
Federalist Papers
39. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Bill of Rights
Korean War
Muckrakers
Harry S. Truman
40. Trial by jury.
Battle of Wounded Knee
GI Bill
Jonas Salk
7th Amendment
41. 1914 - 1918
FDIC
17th Amendment
The Great Migration
World War I
42. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Omar Bradley
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sacco and Vanzetti
Command Economy
43. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Upton Sinclair
Battle of Wounded Knee
Immigration
The Harlem Renaissance
44. No unlawful search and seizure.
Political machines
4th Amendment
George Washington
Populism
45. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Command Economy
George Wallace
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Watergate
46. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Thomas Paine
Berlin Wall
George Wallace
47. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
John J. Pershing
Cattle Drives
3rd Amendment
48. 1939 - 1945
Berlin Airlift
Baker v. Carr
Battle of Midway
World War II
49. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
16th Amendment
King George III
Booker T. Washington
Hoovervilles
50. Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
Sputnik
Woodrow Wilson
Plessy v. Ferguson