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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Columbian Exchange
Warren G. Harding
Barbed wire
Containment
2. Alternate term for 1920's.
George Wallace
U.S.S. Maine
Omar Bradley
The Jazz Age
3. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
George Washington
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Scopes Trial
Marshall Plan (1948)
4. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Rough Riders
Populism
Columbian Exchange
1st Amendment
5. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Pearl Harbor
Trench Warfare
Theodore Roosevelt
U-2 Incident
6. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Civil War
The Holocaust
Cesar Chavez
7. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
9th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
Homestead Act
Treaty of Versailles
8. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Jacob Riis
24th Amendment
William H. Taft
George Washington
9. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
7th Amendment
The Great Migration
William 'Boss' Tweed
10. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Bobby Kennedy
Free Enterprise Economy
21st Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
11. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
John F. Kennedy
Berlin Wall
Shirley Chisholm
Sacco and Vanzetti
12. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
William 'Boss' Tweed
John F. Kennedy
FDIC
17th Amendment
13. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Imperialism
William 'Boss' Tweed
Domino Theory
Columbian Exchange
14. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Harry S. Truman
10th Amendment
Charles Lindbergh
Susan B. Anthony
15. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Containment
Island hopping
Plessy v. Ferguson
16. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Cesar Chavez
Malcolm X
U.S.S. Maine
3rd Amendment
17. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
King George III
Warren G. Harding
Miranda v. Arizona
Richard M. Nixon
18. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Rough Riders
Viet Nam
Trench Warfare
The Rosenberg's
19. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Neil Armstrong
Booker T. Washington
Muckrakers
World War I
20. President 1963-68
Muckrakers
Lyndon B. Johnson
Command Economy
Medger Evers
21. 1939 - 1945
Miranda v. Arizona
Containment
Political machines
World War II
22. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
World War I
Booker T. Washington
Free Enterprise Economy
William H. Taft
23. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Jonas Salk
Berlin Airlift
Harry S. Truman
24. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Nikita Kruschev
Tenements
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
21st Amendment
25. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Flappers
Dust Bowl
Segregation
Hoovervilles
26. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
Yellow Journalism
Georgia O'Keefe
19thAmendment
27. Rights reserved to the people.
Dawes Act
Checks and Balances
9th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
28. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Booker T. Washington
Nikita Kruschev
Gloria Steinem
Jacob Riis
29. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
13th Amendment
Sputnik
John J. Pershing
19thAmendment
30. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Imperialism
Laissez Faire
Samuel Adams
Medger Evers
31. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Theodore Roosevelt
Bay of Pigs
Muckrakers
Abraham Lincoln
32. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Cuban Missile Crisis
William Jennings Bryan
Viet Nam
Social Darwinism
33. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Industrialization
Homestead Act
Sputnik
Trench Warfare
34. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Jonas Salk
24th Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
Dwight D. Eisenhower
35. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
The New Deal
WEB DuBois
William H. Taft
10th Amendment
36. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
5th Amendment
World War II
Manifest Destiny
GI Bill
37. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Korean War
Upton Sinclair
Berlin Airlift
38. No unlawful search and seizure.
Pearl Harbor
21st Amendment
Joe McCarthy
4th Amendment
39. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Jim Crow laws
14th Amendment
Sputnik
Teapot Dome Scandal
40. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Articles of Confederation
Bobby Kennedy
court packing
41. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
15th Amendment
Double V Campaign
Marshall Plan (1948)
Abraham Lincoln
42. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Upton Sinclair
William 'Boss' Tweed
League of Nations
Malcolm X
43. 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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44. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
The Great Migration
Bobby Kennedy
Joe McCarthy
Theodore Roosevelt
45. President during Roaring 20's
Brown v. Board of Education
Calvin Coolidge
Reconstruction
The Little Rock Nine
46. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Cattle Drives
Calvin Coolidge
Gideon v. Wainwright
21st Amendment
47. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Fidel Castro
Segregation
15th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
48. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
The New Deal
Jim Crow laws
Federalist Papers
John F. Kennedy
49. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Dawes Act
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
Normandy
50. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Andrew Carnegie
Marshall Plan (1948)
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Roosevelt