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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cesar Chavez
Cattle Drives
Great Society
2nd Amendment
2. 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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3. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Benjamin Franklin
Tenements
10th Amendment
Watergate
4. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Miranda v. Arizona
Segregation
Theodore Roosevelt
5. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
WEB DuBois
Joe McCarthy
Thomas Jefferson
The Harlem Renaissance
6. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
Manifest Destiny
Douglas MacArthur
Abraham Lincoln
7. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Henry Ford
Shirley Chisholm
Island hopping
John F. Kennedy
8. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Booker T. Washington
King George III
Malcolm X
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
9. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Checks and Balances
18th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
Alfred Thayer Mahan
10. No quartering of troops during peace time
Benjamin Franklin
Neil Armstrong
3rd Amendment
William H. Taft
11. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
17th Amendment
Korean War
The Great Migration
Populism
12. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Susan B. Anthony
8th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
13. American painter from 1920's
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14. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Charles Lindbergh
Domino Theory
15. President of the US during the Civil War.
Gideon v. Wainwright
9th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
16. The right to vote for women.
Malcolm X
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Red Scare
19thAmendment
17. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
court packing
Warren G. Harding
Manifest Destiny
Reynolds v. Sims
18. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
4th Amendment
Populism
Cesar Chavez
The Great Migration
19. 1914 - 1918
2nd Amendment
Homestead Act
13th Amendment
World War I
20. Established the federal income tax.
Bay of Pigs
16th Amendment
Jonas Salk
Normandy
21. Trial by jury.
Fourteen Points
7th Amendment
Bill of Rights
Transcontinental railroad
22. The direct election of US Senators.
WPA
17th Amendment
Dawes Act
Fidel Castro
23. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Watergate
Sputnik
Miranda v. Arizona
Normandy
24. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
The Baby Boom
13th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
Alfred Thayer Mahan
25. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
Hoovervilles
Domino Theory
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
26. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
George Washington
Sputnik
Checks and Balances
Tenements
27. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Muckrakers
William 'Boss' Tweed
John J. Pershing
28. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Bracero Program
The Holocaust
Calvin Coolidge
15th Amendment
29. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Checks and Balances
Federalism
Jacob Riis
Pearl Harbor
30. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Medger Evers
Fidel Castro
Treaty of Versailles
19thAmendment
31. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Korean War
Homestead Act
Industrialization
32. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
Fourteen Points
WEB DuBois
Watergate
33. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Medger Evers
Thomas Jefferson
9th Amendment
Imperialism
34. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The New Deal
Homestead Act
Trench Warfare
35. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Separation of Powers
Federalist Papers
4th Amendment
U.S.S. Maine
36. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Segregation
Malcolm X
Immigration
Containment
37. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Reconstruction
William 'Boss' Tweed
Escobedo v. Illinois
The Jazz Age
38. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Jonas Salk
U-2 Incident
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gloria Steinem
39. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr
WEB DuBois
Cesar Chavez
Federalism
40. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Woodrow Wilson
Reynolds v. Sims
Omar Bradley
Battle of Midway
41. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
5th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King Jr
42. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
26th Amendment
Cesar Chavez
19thAmendment
Douglas MacArthur
43. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
GI Bill
Calvin Coolidge
Social Darwinism
Bobby Kennedy
44. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Populism
Island hopping
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Reconstruction
45. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Fidel Castro
Shirley Chisholm
Emancipation Proclamation
46. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Red Scare
Watergate
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Urbanization
47. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Shirley Chisholm
Cesar Chavez
Flappers
Bracero Program
48. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Watergate
Imperialism
Susan B. Anthony
The Baby Boom
49. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Thomas Paine
Yellow Journalism
2nd Amendment
League of Nations
50. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
Urbanization
Cuban Missile Crisis
Civil War
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