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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Samuel Adams
10th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
2. Founding father - politician - scientist
Benjamin Franklin
Andrew Carnegie
Berlin Wall
Theodore Roosevelt
3. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Benjamin Franklin
Warren G. Harding
8th Amendment
3rd Amendment
4. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Populism
Containment
World War II
Normandy
5. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Escobedo v. Illinois
Hoovervilles
19thAmendment
Barbed wire
6. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
FDIC
William Jennings Bryan
Marshall Plan (1948)
7. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Fidel Castro
Muckrakers
17th Amendment
Reconstruction
8. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Hoovervilles
Segregation
Thomas Jefferson
SEC
9. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Richard M. Nixon
Red Scare
Upton Sinclair
15th Amendment
10. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Clarence Darrow
Great Compromise
Great Society
World War I
11. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
U.S.S. Maine
Prohibition
World War II
12. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Susan B. Anthony
Harry S. Truman
George Wallace
Reynolds v. Sims
13. No quartering of troops during peace time
League of Nations
Red Scare
3rd Amendment
Thomas Paine
14. President during Roaring 20's
Calvin Coolidge
WPA
Omar Bradley
Susan B. Anthony
15. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Fourteen Points
Jim Crow laws
GI Bill
Thomas Paine
16. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
William 'Boss' Tweed
Abraham Lincoln
Containment
17. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Island hopping
Sacco and Vanzetti
The New Deal
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
18. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Island hopping
Reynolds v. Sims
Gloria Steinem
Double V Campaign
19. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
SEC
Teapot Dome Scandal
22nd Amendment
20. Early rock n ' roll performer
Sacco and Vanzetti
Elvis Presley
Barbed wire
21st Amendment
21. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
WEB DuBois
Warren G. Harding
3rd Amendment
22. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Baby Boom
16th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
23. Right to bear arms
14th Amendment
Domino Theory
2nd Amendment
Imperialism
24. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Calvin Coolidge
Domino Theory
6th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
25. President 1963-68
The Baby Boom
Lyndon B. Johnson
Susan B. Anthony
John F. Kennedy
26. Established the federal income tax.
Barbed wire
Island hopping
16th Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
27. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Neil Armstrong
Island hopping
Cattle Drives
28. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Rosa Parks
Red Scare
WEB DuBois
Upton Sinclair
29. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Social Darwinism
9th Amendment
Thomas Paine
Malcolm X
30. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Plessy v. Ferguson
Nikita Kruschev
Columbian Exchange
22nd Amendment
31. American painter from 1920's
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32. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm
Nullification Crisis
18th Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Nikita Kruschev
Cattle Drives
Theodore Roosevelt
Great Society
34. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
William Jennings Bryan
Teapot Dome Scandal
John J. Pershing
Prohibition
35. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
WPA
Bracero Program
Reconstruction
36. Movement of people into a country from another country.
John F. Kennedy
Political machines
Immigration
The Little Rock Nine
37. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Fourteen Points
The Rosenberg's
Laissez Faire
Samuel Adams
38. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Bracero Program
The Little Rock Nine
Clarence Darrow
Great Society
39. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Fourteen Points
Hoovervilles
The Scopes Trial
Battle of Wounded Knee
40. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
6th Amendment
League of Nations
Immigration
Tenements
41. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
19thAmendment
9th Amendment
21st Amendment
Gloria Steinem
42. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
William 'Boss' Tweed
18th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
43. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Columbian Exchange
Nullification Crisis
7th Amendment
Barbed wire
44. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Manifest Destiny
The Jazz Age
Flappers
18th Amendment
45. President 1980-88.
Flappers
Ronald Reagan
Malcolm X
John F. Kennedy
46. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Muckrakers
Neil Armstrong
Samuel Adams
Richard M. Nixon
47. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
Theodore Roosevelt
Baker v. Carr
Samuel Adams
48. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Flappers
GI Bill
Hoovervilles
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
49. 1914 - 1918
John J. Pershing
World War I
5th Amendment
Jacob Riis
50. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Douglas MacArthur
Woodrow Wilson
Watergate
Andrew Carnegie