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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.
Great Society
Yellow Journalism
Social Darwinism
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Industrialization
Tenements
Great Society
George Wallace
3. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Checks and Balances
Normandy
Miranda v. Arizona
21st Amendment
4. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Federalist Papers
Nikita Kruschev
U.S.S. Maine
Douglas MacArthur
5. President of the US during the Civil War.
Great Compromise
Great Society
Bay of Pigs
Abraham Lincoln
6. The direct election of US Senators.
2nd Amendment
Berlin Wall
Truman Doctrine (1947)
17th Amendment
7. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
6th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
8. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Nikita Kruschev
Joe McCarthy
Charles Lindbergh
Plessy v. Ferguson
9. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Domino Theory
U.S.S. Maine
4th Amendment
Normandy
10. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
SEC
Political machines
Viet Nam
Spanish - American War
11. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Baker v. Carr
Hoovervilles
19thAmendment
Yellow Journalism
12. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Dust Bowl
19thAmendment
Abraham Lincoln
Treaty of Versailles
13. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
The New Deal
George Wallace
Lyndon B. Johnson
Containment
14. The right to a fast and public trial.
Warren G. Harding
Korean War
Social Darwinism
6th Amendment
15. Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
Jonas Salk
Georgia O'Keefe
Samuel Adams
16. Trial by jury.
7th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
Neil Armstrong
24th Amendment
17. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
League of Nations
George Washington
18. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
William H. Taft
Reynolds v. Sims
FDIC
Manifest Destiny
19. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
The Little Rock Nine
5th Amendment
Populism
Flappers
20. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Fourteen Points
Reynolds v. Sims
Homestead Act
7th Amendment
21. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
18th Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
Columbian Exchange
The Jazz Age
22. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
John J. Pershing
Theodore Roosevelt
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Teapot Dome Scandal
23. American painter from 1920's
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24. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Malcolm X
26th Amendment
Red Scare
GI Bill
25. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
Emancipation Proclamation
Great Society
8th Amendment
26. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
The Great Migration
7th Amendment
The Jazz Age
15th Amendment
27. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
19thAmendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Ronald Reagan
Manifest Destiny
28. No unlawful search and seizure.
Trench Warfare
4th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
Neil Armstrong
29. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Cattle Drives
Plessy v. Ferguson
Social Darwinism
Gloria Steinem
30. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Homestead Act
John J. Pershing
7th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
31. Alternate term for 1920's.
Great Society
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
The Jazz Age
32. Competition between European countries to create empires.
6th Amendment
Imperialism
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Neil Armstrong
33. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Harry S. Truman
Susan B. Anthony
Yellow Journalism
Shirley Chisholm
34. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Pearl Harbor
Federalism
The Great Migration
Imperialism
35. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Warren G. Harding
Jacob Riis
Georgia O'Keefe
Fidel Castro
36. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Harry S. Truman
Transcontinental railroad
17th Amendment
Bill of Rights
37. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Booker T. Washington
Laissez Faire
The Great Migration
WEB DuBois
38. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
The War on Poverty
WEB DuBois
Nikita Kruschev
Manifest Destiny
39. The right to vote for women.
The Articles of Confederation
19thAmendment
William H. Taft
Watergate
40. Separation by race.
Homestead Act
Trench Warfare
Reynolds v. Sims
Segregation
41. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Bill of Rights
Nikita Kruschev
14th Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe
42. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
WEB DuBois
Samuel Adams
FDIC
Susan B. Anthony
43. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Henry Ford
Marshall Plan (1948)
Red Scare
Lyndon B. Johnson
44. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Harlem Renaissance
Neil Armstrong
U-2 Incident
4th Amendment
45. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
22nd Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Double V Campaign
46. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
court packing
Great Society
Dust Bowl
47. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
King George III
Bracero Program
Warren G. Harding
Transcontinental railroad
48. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Cesar Chavez
Ronald Reagan
Great Compromise
Bracero Program
49. No cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
Emancipation Proclamation
Berlin Wall
50. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
Imperialism