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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Richard M. Nixon
Emancipation Proclamation
WEB DuBois
2. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Baker v. Carr
George Washington
Henry Ford
19thAmendment
3. Power is shared between the states and national government.
WEB DuBois
Federalism
Berlin Airlift
Sacco and Vanzetti
4. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Upton Sinclair
William Jennings Bryan
Thomas Paine
26th Amendment
5. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Neil Armstrong
Industrialization
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Susan B. Anthony
6. Abolished slavery
13th Amendment
3rd Amendment
Normandy
Bobby Kennedy
7. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Spanish - American War
Civil War
Reynolds v. Sims
Marshall Plan (1948)
8. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Henry Ford
Dust Bowl
GI Bill
Industrialization
9. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Richard M. Nixon
Georgia O'Keefe
Industrialization
Joe McCarthy
10. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Articles of Confederation
6th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Domino Theory
11. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Reynolds v. Sims
Pearl Harbor
Rough Riders
Immigration
12. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
The Scopes Trial
Normandy
Prohibition
Baker v. Carr
13. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
Booker T. Washington
Gloria Steinem
Warren G. Harding
14. Established the federal income tax.
16th Amendment
Political machines
King George III
Hoovervilles
15. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Spanish - American War
Woodrow Wilson
Douglas MacArthur
WPA
16. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Sacco and Vanzetti
13th Amendment
Fourteen Points
17. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Bobby Kennedy
Viet Nam
Henry Ford
Social Darwinism
18. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
George Washington
4th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
19. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
Woodrow Wilson
Bay of Pigs
League of Nations
20. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Jacob Riis
Martin Luther King Jr
2nd Amendment
21. No unlawful search and seizure.
George Washington
13th Amendment
4th Amendment
Double V Campaign
22. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Populism
Samuel Adams
Brown v. Board of Education
The War on Poverty
23. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Transcontinental railroad
Fidel Castro
Normandy
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
24. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Calvin Coolidge
WEB DuBois
Cuban Missile Crisis
Segregation
25. Invented the vaccine for polio
World War II
SEC
Jonas Salk
Bobby Kennedy
26. 1914 - 1918
Immigration
Checks and Balances
World War I
Baker v. Carr
27. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Abraham Lincoln
Korean War
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
John J. Pershing
28. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
Reynolds v. Sims
26th Amendment
Bill of Rights
29. The direct election of US Senators.
King George III
17th Amendment
Imperialism
Bill of Rights
30. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
4th Amendment
Bracero Program
Great Compromise
31. Early rock n ' roll performer
The Baby Boom
Elvis Presley
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
U.S.S. Maine
32. President of the US during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Yellow Journalism
1st Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
33. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Command Economy
William H. Taft
8th Amendment
34. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
GI Bill
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Charles Lindbergh
Cuban Missile Crisis
35. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Marshall Plan (1948)
Abraham Lincoln
Great Compromise
Battle of Midway
36. Right to bear arms
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brown v. Board of Education
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
2nd Amendment
37. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
The Rosenberg's
Cuban Missile Crisis
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Korean War
38. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
Gloria Steinem
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
39. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
13th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
Pearl Harbor
Harry S. Truman
40. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Berlin Airlift
Rough Riders
League of Nations
Yellow Journalism
41. Trial by jury.
Teapot Dome Scandal
19thAmendment
7th Amendment
Domino Theory
42. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Jonas Salk
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
GI Bill
Industrialization
43. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
The Baby Boom
Nullification Crisis
George Wallace
Elvis Presley
44. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
The Articles of Confederation
Theodore Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nullification Crisis
45. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Hoovervilles
William Jennings Bryan
Free Enterprise Economy
2nd Amendment
46. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Laissez Faire
Battle of Wounded Knee
Shirley Chisholm
47. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Red Scare
Island hopping
U-2 Incident
Great Compromise
48. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Jim Crow laws
Benjamin Franklin
Viet Nam
court packing
49. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Barbed wire
The Little Rock Nine
WPA
Nullification Crisis
50. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Neil Armstrong
John J. Pershing
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S.S. Maine