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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Treaty of Versailles
NATO (1959)
22nd Amendment
2. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
The Articles of Confederation
Watergate
Federalist Papers
Abraham Lincoln
3. Rights reserved to the people.
Miranda v. Arizona
9th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Barbed wire
4. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Reynolds v. Sims
Berlin Airlift
Double V Campaign
William H. Taft
5. Communist leader of Cuba.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fidel Castro
WEB DuBois
2nd Amendment
6. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Baby Boom
John J. Pershing
The Articles of Confederation
Battle of Wounded Knee
7. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Federalist Papers
Clarence Darrow
14th Amendment
Homestead Act
8. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
League of Nations
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
World War II
Berlin Wall
9. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Federalist Papers
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Jonas Salk
Island hopping
10. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
John Scopes
Watergate
League of Nations
Gideon v. Wainwright
11. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Transcontinental railroad
Containment
Teapot Dome Scandal
Jim Crow laws
12. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
2nd Amendment
Segregation
Normandy
Douglas MacArthur
13. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Flappers
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Domino Theory
14. 1860 - 1865
Sacco and Vanzetti
Civil War
Reynolds v. Sims
Thomas Jefferson
15. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Cattle Drives
The Holocaust
Hoovervilles
Spanish - American War
16. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Fidel Castro
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Reconstruction
Laissez Faire
17. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Upton Sinclair
Populism
Escobedo v. Illinois
18. Abolished slavery
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Tenements
13th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
19. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Miranda v. Arizona
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Benjamin Franklin
The Harlem Renaissance
20. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
The Rosenberg's
Plessy v. Ferguson
Fidel Castro
Rough Riders
21. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Miranda v. Arizona
William 'Boss' Tweed
Normandy
Manifest Destiny
22. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Joe McCarthy
Medger Evers
Manifest Destiny
Neil Armstrong
23. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
22nd Amendment
17th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
U.S.S. Maine
24. New York political machine boss.
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25. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Dust Bowl
5th Amendment
Urbanization
Dawes Act
26. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Social Darwinism
14th Amendment
27. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Theodore Roosevelt
Nikita Kruschev
Hoovervilles
World War I
28. President 1980-88.
Korean War
Ronald Reagan
Fourteen Points
Rosa Parks
29. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Jim Crow laws
21st Amendment
Sputnik
WEB DuBois
30. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
SEC
George Washington
Clarence Darrow
Checks and Balances
31. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Nikita Kruschev
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Thomas Paine
Treaty of Versailles
32. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
24th Amendment
Social Darwinism
Gloria Steinem
The Little Rock Nine
33. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Bobby Kennedy
Immigration
Treaty of Versailles
The Holocaust
34. President 1963-68
Lyndon B. Johnson
Separation of Powers
8th Amendment
Double V Campaign
35. Powers reserved to the states
Emancipation Proclamation
10th Amendment
Bracero Program
16th Amendment
36. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
1st Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
Truman Doctrine (1947)
10th Amendment
37. The right to vote for women.
Tenements
Cuban Missile Crisis
18th Amendment
19thAmendment
38. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
World War II
The War on Poverty
Samuel Adams
39. No unlawful search and seizure.
Escobedo v. Illinois
4th Amendment
Urbanization
Dwight D. Eisenhower
40. Trial by jury.
The Great Migration
7th Amendment
Laissez Faire
4th Amendment
41. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Bracero Program
Checks and Balances
16th Amendment
Tenements
42. Established the federal income tax.
16th Amendment
Elvis Presley
U-2 Incident
Dust Bowl
43. Right to bear arms
Civil War
Teapot Dome Scandal
Dwight D. Eisenhower
2nd Amendment
44. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
17th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
Escobedo v. Illinois
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
45. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Emancipation Proclamation
Bobby Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
Battle of Wounded Knee
46. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Booker T. Washington
The Articles of Confederation
William 'Boss' Tweed
Andrew Carnegie
47. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Dust Bowl
Checks and Balances
William Jennings Bryan
Columbian Exchange
48. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Urbanization
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Malcolm X
3rd Amendment
49. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
George Washington
Muckrakers
Federalism
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
50. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
10th Amendment
Battle of Midway
Homestead Act
Clarence Darrow