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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Separation of Powers
Sacco and Vanzetti
Barbed wire
Columbian Exchange
2. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
21st Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
Battle of Wounded Knee
Upton Sinclair
3. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Populism
Prohibition
Imperialism
Brown v. Board of Education
4. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Brown v. Board of Education
Industrialization
Richard M. Nixon
Teapot Dome Scandal
5. Power is shared between the states and national government.
19thAmendment
16th Amendment
15th Amendment
Federalism
6. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
World War II
Political machines
Sputnik
Laissez Faire
7. Abolished slavery
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
13th Amendment
The Little Rock Nine
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
8. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
18th Amendment
Fidel Castro
Brown v. Board of Education
9. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
Dust Bowl
William H. Taft
Escobedo v. Illinois
10. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
The Holocaust
Federalist Papers
Nikita Kruschev
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
11. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Medger Evers
Andrew Carnegie
Jacob Riis
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
12. President 1961-63
7th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
John F. Kennedy
Baker v. Carr
13. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Jonas Salk
Reynolds v. Sims
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
14. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Calvin Coolidge
Domino Theory
Rosa Parks
15. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Warren G. Harding
Booker T. Washington
Social Darwinism
Richard M. Nixon
16. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Rosa Parks
Abraham Lincoln
The Rosenberg's
17. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
7th Amendment
The Little Rock Nine
SEC
Separation of Powers
18. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
Cuban Missile Crisis
15th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
19. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Medger Evers
Battle of Wounded Knee
16th Amendment
FDIC
20. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Shirley Chisholm
Dwight D. Eisenhower
GI Bill
Laissez Faire
21. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Elvis Presley
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Jazz Age
Industrialization
22. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
16th Amendment
Immigration
23. Founding father - politician - scientist
Benjamin Franklin
Marshall Plan (1948)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Flappers
24. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Charles Lindbergh
Thomas Paine
Viet Nam
25. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
George Wallace
Samuel Adams
Populism
15th Amendment
26. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
SEC
World War II
Charles Lindbergh
Columbian Exchange
27. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Transcontinental railroad
26th Amendment
Hoovervilles
Prohibition
28. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
John Scopes
Plessy v. Ferguson
Homestead Act
29. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Federalist Papers
9th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Medger Evers
30. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
The Articles of Confederation
The Baby Boom
Richard M. Nixon
Watergate
31. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
14th Amendment
Bracero Program
Reynolds v. Sims
U.S.S. Maine
32. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr
U-2 Incident
Susan B. Anthony
Barbed wire
33. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
21st Amendment
Red Scare
Battle of Midway
Samuel Adams
34. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Transcontinental railroad
NATO (1959)
Rough Riders
Reconstruction
35. Alternate term for 1920's.
4th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Jazz Age
36. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Neil Armstrong
Berlin Airlift
Miranda v. Arizona
Charles Lindbergh
37. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Checks and Balances
Prohibition
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Homestead Act
38. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Truman Doctrine (1947)
John Scopes
14th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
39. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Dust Bowl
Warren G. Harding
Containment
Theodore Roosevelt
40. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Muckrakers
16th Amendment
Dawes Act
Shirley Chisholm
41. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Douglas MacArthur
Flappers
Battle of Midway
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
42. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
The Holocaust
22nd Amendment
21st Amendment
George Washington
43. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
15th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
Berlin Wall
Dust Bowl
44. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Rosa Parks
Dust Bowl
Viet Nam
45. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
2nd Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
21st Amendment
46. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Prohibition
Calvin Coolidge
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Berlin Wall
47. No unlawful search and seizure.
4th Amendment
Muckrakers
Battle of Midway
The War on Poverty
48. Trial by jury.
Bay of Pigs
7th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bracero Program
49. The right to vote for women.
19thAmendment
24th Amendment
22nd Amendment
William 'Boss' Tweed
50. The prohibition of alcohol.
Shirley Chisholm
13th Amendment
18th Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe