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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Separation of Powers
George Washington
Booker T. Washington
Normandy
2. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Battle of Midway
Yellow Journalism
Nullification Crisis
Great Society
3. 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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4. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Little Rock Nine
Political machines
Great Society
5. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Segregation
Marshall Plan (1948)
The Scopes Trial
Viet Nam
6. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
26th Amendment
Normandy
Pearl Harbor
Industrialization
7. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Richard M. Nixon
Woodrow Wilson
Rosa Parks
Omar Bradley
8. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Manifest Destiny
Woodrow Wilson
Imperialism
Separation of Powers
9. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
24th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Industrialization
William 'Boss' Tweed
10. Founding father - politician - scientist
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Samuel Adams
Reconstruction
Benjamin Franklin
11. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Calvin Coolidge
Transcontinental railroad
4th Amendment
Muckrakers
12. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Sputnik
Martin Luther King Jr
U.S.S. Maine
Nikita Kruschev
13. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Charles Lindbergh
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
court packing
Immigration
14. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Cesar Chavez
Clarence Darrow
9th Amendment
Pearl Harbor
15. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Homestead Act
Columbian Exchange
Korean War
The War on Poverty
16. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Hoovervilles
Federalist Papers
Sacco and Vanzetti
17. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Watergate
Island hopping
Benjamin Franklin
6th Amendment
18. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
League of Nations
Cuban Missile Crisis
court packing
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
19. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Berlin Wall
Martin Luther King Jr
Richard M. Nixon
20. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Social Darwinism
William 'Boss' Tweed
13th Amendment
Trench Warfare
21. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
Flappers
Korean War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
George Washington
24th Amendment
Federalist Papers
Brown v. Board of Education
23. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Jacob Riis
Miranda v. Arizona
FDIC
WEB DuBois
24. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Dawes Act
Yellow Journalism
The Jazz Age
26th Amendment
25. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
World War II
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Nikita Kruschev
7th Amendment
26. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Teapot Dome Scandal
Domino Theory
Bobby Kennedy
King George III
27. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
League of Nations
16th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
WEB DuBois
28. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Yellow Journalism
Medger Evers
FDIC
Gideon v. Wainwright
29. 1939 - 1945
Warren G. Harding
World War II
court packing
Jacob Riis
30. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Great Society
Nikita Kruschev
Bobby Kennedy
Rosa Parks
31. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln
The Great Migration
The New Deal
32. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Imperialism
Samuel Adams
William H. Taft
Berlin Wall
33. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
George Wallace
Thomas Jefferson
34. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Ronald Reagan
Cesar Chavez
Normandy
Samuel Adams
35. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Woodrow Wilson
Marshall Plan (1948)
The Holocaust
22nd Amendment
36. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Great Compromise
The Holocaust
Neil Armstrong
Brown v. Board of Education
37. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
3rd Amendment
Tenements
Susan B. Anthony
Watergate
38. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Tenements
Free Enterprise Economy
Gloria Steinem
Emancipation Proclamation
39. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Harry S. Truman
15th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
Battle of Wounded Knee
40. President 1963-68
The Rosenberg's
4th Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
Lyndon B. Johnson
41. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
U-2 Incident
Command Economy
WPA
42. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Jonas Salk
Nullification Crisis
Baker v. Carr
Rough Riders
43. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cattle Drives
18th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
44. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
John Scopes
Bay of Pigs
Bill of Rights
World War I
45. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Elvis Presley
Escobedo v. Illinois
Neil Armstrong
Warren G. Harding
46. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
U-2 Incident
Reynolds v. Sims
Watergate
Homestead Act
47. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Nikita Kruschev
Emancipation Proclamation
The Harlem Renaissance
John Scopes
48. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Charles Lindbergh
Martin Luther King Jr
Cattle Drives
Great Society
49. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Woodrow Wilson
Federalism
WEB DuBois
Flappers
50. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
19thAmendment
Jonas Salk
22nd Amendment
The Baby Boom