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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
18th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
2nd Amendment
Yellow Journalism
2. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Ronald Reagan
Warren G. Harding
William Jennings Bryan
Political machines
3. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Tenements
Georgia O'Keefe
Henry Ford
Andrew Carnegie
4. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Calvin Coolidge
Command Economy
Urbanization
Normandy
5. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Domino Theory
Industrialization
Richard M. Nixon
SEC
6. President of the US during the Civil War.
Laissez Faire
William Jennings Bryan
Abraham Lincoln
World War II
7. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
17th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Fidel Castro
8th Amendment
8. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
Checks and Balances
Joe McCarthy
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
9. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
The Great Migration
Berlin Airlift
Omar Bradley
Cesar Chavez
10. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Bracero Program
Bobby Kennedy
Rosa Parks
11. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Dust Bowl
Malcolm X
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
WPA
12. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Harry S. Truman
Teapot Dome Scandal
court packing
The Articles of Confederation
13. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Georgia O'Keefe
U.S.S. Maine
Nikita Kruschev
Containment
14. 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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15. No quartering of troops during peace time
3rd Amendment
Thomas Paine
Flappers
8th Amendment
16. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
WPA
21st Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
Escobedo v. Illinois
17. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Dawes Act
Jonas Salk
Imperialism
Prohibition
18. Separation by race.
6th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Segregation
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
19. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
15th Amendment
Tenements
The Scopes Trial
George Washington
20. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Nikita Kruschev
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Plessy v. Ferguson
Watergate
21. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
King George III
Homestead Act
26th Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
22. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
U-2 Incident
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr
Elvis Presley
23. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Containment
Gideon v. Wainwright
22nd Amendment
Jim Crow laws
24. The right to a fast and public trial.
3rd Amendment
The Great Migration
6th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
25. Alternate term for 1920's.
Viet Nam
17th Amendment
The Jazz Age
Joe McCarthy
26. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
John Scopes
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Charles Lindbergh
Viet Nam
27. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Barbed wire
Muckrakers
Reconstruction
Jim Crow laws
28. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Lyndon B. Johnson
U-2 Incident
Hoovervilles
Separation of Powers
29. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Andrew Carnegie
Battle of Wounded Knee
Barbed wire
Federalism
30. President during Roaring 20's
Immigration
14th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
Calvin Coolidge
31. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
court packing
Richard M. Nixon
Jonas Salk
Command Economy
32. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
King George III
Clarence Darrow
Great Society
Fidel Castro
33. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Homestead Act
Rough Riders
17th Amendment
Domino Theory
34. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Upton Sinclair
24th Amendment
League of Nations
15th Amendment
35. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Treaty of Versailles
World War II
Transcontinental railroad
Calvin Coolidge
36. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
William H. Taft
WPA
4th Amendment
8th Amendment
37. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
The Great Migration
Rosa Parks
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
38. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Great Compromise
William Jennings Bryan
WEB DuBois
39. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Charles Lindbergh
Thomas Jefferson
Flappers
Pearl Harbor
40. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Federalism
Bay of Pigs
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8th Amendment
41. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
FDIC
GI Bill
Populism
Bobby Kennedy
42. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Andrew Carnegie
Political machines
Susan B. Anthony
43. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
NATO (1959)
FDIC
16th Amendment
8th Amendment
44. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
King George III
Thomas Jefferson
Command Economy
Bill of Rights
45. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Dust Bowl
Jim Crow laws
Thomas Paine
Lyndon B. Johnson
46. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
Bill of Rights
Island hopping
Reconstruction
47. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Warren G. Harding
Samuel Adams
Double V Campaign
Muckrakers
48. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Sputnik
Battle of Wounded Knee
GI Bill
Warren G. Harding
49. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
U.S.S. Maine
George Wallace
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Spanish - American War
50. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Henry Ford
19thAmendment
Harry S. Truman
Dust Bowl