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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Manifest Destiny
Samuel Adams
Andrew Carnegie
World War I
2. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Berlin Airlift
Federalist Papers
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Social Darwinism
3. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
Dust Bowl
SEC
Abraham Lincoln
4. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Martin Luther King Jr
Barbed wire
Reconstruction
Hoovervilles
5. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
GI Bill
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Korean War
Lyndon B. Johnson
6. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
George Wallace
8th Amendment
Civil War
WEB DuBois
7. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Emancipation Proclamation
Susan B. Anthony
Plessy v. Ferguson
Double V Campaign
8. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
WPA
16th Amendment
Rosa Parks
13th Amendment
9. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Upton Sinclair
Charles Lindbergh
Great Compromise
William Jennings Bryan
10. Alternate term for 1920's.
Upton Sinclair
The Jazz Age
Sputnik
Great Compromise
11. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Columbian Exchange
The Little Rock Nine
Battle of Midway
12. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
U-2 Incident
Omar Bradley
16th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
13. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Clarence Darrow
Brown v. Board of Education
Checks and Balances
Berlin Wall
14. 1914 - 1918
World War I
Andrew Carnegie
The Holocaust
Muckrakers
15. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Teapot Dome Scandal
Brown v. Board of Education
The Articles of Confederation
Columbian Exchange
16. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Berlin Wall
Jacob Riis
Dust Bowl
17. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Muckrakers
The New Deal
Bracero Program
Dust Bowl
18. The right to vote for women.
Urbanization
Great Society
Command Economy
19thAmendment
19. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
5th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Cattle Drives
The Great Migration
20. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
The Little Rock Nine
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Articles of Confederation
WEB DuBois
21. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Pearl Harbor
Populism
Double V Campaign
Viet Nam
22. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Andrew Carnegie
John Scopes
Flappers
Benjamin Franklin
23. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Domino Theory
Watergate
SEC
Great Society
24. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Viet Nam
Baker v. Carr
NATO (1959)
Sputnik
25. Invented the vaccine for polio
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Nullification Crisis
Jonas Salk
Miranda v. Arizona
26. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
John Scopes
26th Amendment
The Great Migration
4th Amendment
27. No unlawful search and seizure.
Prohibition
7th Amendment
4th Amendment
Great Compromise
28. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Sputnik
U-2 Incident
Trench Warfare
29. 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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30. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
5th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Richard M. Nixon
31. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Jazz Age
Thomas Jefferson
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Great Migration
32. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Harry S. Truman
Jacob Riis
Command Economy
Malcolm X
33. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Nullification Crisis
Rosa Parks
10th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
34. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Great Society
The Articles of Confederation
Transcontinental railroad
35. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Bracero Program
Neil Armstrong
22nd Amendment
George Wallace
36. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Pearl Harbor
Samuel Adams
3rd Amendment
Containment
37. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Manifest Destiny
Andrew Carnegie
Sputnik
38. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
Transcontinental railroad
Normandy
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
39. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
17th Amendment
Dust Bowl
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Trench Warfare
40. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Prohibition
Tenements
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
41. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Populism
SEC
Neil Armstrong
Miranda v. Arizona
42. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
John F. Kennedy
George Wallace
Sputnik
Berlin Wall
43. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Nullification Crisis
Douglas MacArthur
Theodore Roosevelt
Immigration
44. Abolished slavery
Island hopping
24th Amendment
13th Amendment
Marshall Plan (1948)
45. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Prohibition
Teapot Dome Scandal
William H. Taft
Alfred Thayer Mahan
46. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Immigration
Richard M. Nixon
47. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Fourteen Points
14th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Upton Sinclair
48. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Bay of Pigs
4th Amendment
10th Amendment
Immigration
49. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
George Wallace
Battle of Midway
Watergate
Calvin Coolidge
50. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
John F. Kennedy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Gloria Steinem
Battle of Midway
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