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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Watergate
Sacco and Vanzetti
Prohibition
Elvis Presley
2. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
16th Amendment
Segregation
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Berlin Airlift
3. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Elvis Presley
Harry S. Truman
Henry Ford
Urbanization
4. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
8th Amendment
Urbanization
Truman Doctrine (1947)
5. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Civil War
Omar Bradley
Imperialism
Pearl Harbor
6. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Dust Bowl
14th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Yellow Journalism
7. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Manifest Destiny
6th Amendment
The War on Poverty
Berlin Airlift
8. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
George Wallace
Nikita Kruschev
Alfred Thayer Mahan
9. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
King George III
Great Society
Brown v. Board of Education
24th Amendment
10. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
3rd Amendment
The Great Migration
Harry S. Truman
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
11. No unlawful search and seizure.
4th Amendment
GI Bill
Treaty of Versailles
Cuban Missile Crisis
12. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
World War II
Elvis Presley
Industrialization
Battle of Wounded Knee
13. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Upton Sinclair
Thomas Paine
Command Economy
Sacco and Vanzetti
14. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Bill of Rights
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Free Enterprise Economy
Barbed wire
15. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
7th Amendment
The War on Poverty
The Holocaust
16. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Laissez Faire
Douglas MacArthur
Joe McCarthy
Charles Lindbergh
17. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Reynolds v. Sims
Federalism
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
18. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Great Compromise
U-2 Incident
Checks and Balances
Richard M. Nixon
19. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Command Economy
court packing
Reynolds v. Sims
The Baby Boom
20. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Bobby Kennedy
Imperialism
The War on Poverty
Martin Luther King Jr
21. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Prohibition
Samuel Adams
William Jennings Bryan
Joe McCarthy
22. President 1963-68
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Harlem Renaissance
John Scopes
Brown v. Board of Education
23. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Miranda v. Arizona
George Washington
Island hopping
24. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
Manifest Destiny
U.S.S. Maine
Sputnik
25. The right to vote for women.
Susan B. Anthony
19thAmendment
Bill of Rights
Henry Ford
26. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
King George III
Calvin Coolidge
Red Scare
Miranda v. Arizona
27. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
Berlin Wall
Abraham Lincoln
Columbian Exchange
28. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Shirley Chisholm
Watergate
Spanish - American War
Great Compromise
29. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Cattle Drives
William 'Boss' Tweed
The Great Migration
Douglas MacArthur
30. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Political machines
George Wallace
Bay of Pigs
The New Deal
31. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Containment
14th Amendment
Samuel Adams
Georgia O'Keefe
32. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X
14th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
Barbed wire
33. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Martin Luther King Jr
The Scopes Trial
Dawes Act
Clarence Darrow
34. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Gideon v. Wainwright
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
John Scopes
William H. Taft
35. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Richard M. Nixon
26th Amendment
WEB DuBois
League of Nations
36. The direct election of US Senators.
19thAmendment
17th Amendment
John J. Pershing
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
37. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Containment
Thomas Jefferson
The Harlem Renaissance
Tenements
38. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Jim Crow laws
Douglas MacArthur
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
39. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gloria Steinem
Reynolds v. Sims
Jacob Riis
40. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Free Enterprise Economy
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Double V Campaign
13th Amendment
41. President 1961-63
court packing
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
42. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Warren G. Harding
Normandy
Thomas Jefferson
Cuban Missile Crisis
43. Communist leader of Cuba.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Fidel Castro
The Articles of Confederation
19thAmendment
44. No quartering of troops during peace time
Cesar Chavez
Trench Warfare
3rd Amendment
Spanish - American War
45. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
The New Deal
Island hopping
William H. Taft
Emancipation Proclamation
46. Early rock n ' roll performer
court packing
Free Enterprise Economy
The Little Rock Nine
Elvis Presley
47. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Imperialism
U.S.S. Maine
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Martin Luther King Jr
48. 1939 - 1945
Theodore Roosevelt
World War II
Thomas Paine
Watergate
49. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
FDIC
1st Amendment
Baker v. Carr
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
50. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
14th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
Cesar Chavez
Emancipation Proclamation
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