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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Political machines
court packing
WEB DuBois
GI Bill
2. No quartering of troops during peace time
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Free Enterprise Economy
Cattle Drives
3rd Amendment
3. Abolished slavery
Berlin Airlift
13th Amendment
Sputnik
Trench Warfare
4. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Holocaust
The Articles of Confederation
Gloria Steinem
Henry Ford
5. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Flappers
Sacco and Vanzetti
9th Amendment
Containment
6. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Samuel Adams
The Jazz Age
Bill of Rights
7. Separation by race.
King George III
Command Economy
Segregation
Lyndon B. Johnson
8. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Dust Bowl
Columbian Exchange
Social Darwinism
Domino Theory
9. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Federalist Papers
WEB DuBois
William H. Taft
10. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Bobby Kennedy
U-2 Incident
Spanish - American War
11. Trial by jury.
Command Economy
Douglas MacArthur
18th Amendment
7th Amendment
12. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Barbed wire
Fourteen Points
Malcolm X
19thAmendment
13. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Red Scare
Ronald Reagan
Manifest Destiny
1st Amendment
14. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
The New Deal
Checks and Balances
Jim Crow laws
14th Amendment
15. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
WPA
Neil Armstrong
22nd Amendment
16. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
GI Bill
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
15th Amendment
Jim Crow laws
17. Early rock n ' roll performer
Plessy v. Ferguson
Elvis Presley
14th Amendment
Bill of Rights
18. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Domino Theory
9th Amendment
SEC
19. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Treaty of Versailles
Rosa Parks
22nd Amendment
Command Economy
20. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
21. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
4th Amendment
9th Amendment
Medger Evers
Nullification Crisis
22. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Flappers
Thomas Jefferson
6th Amendment
17th Amendment
23. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Rosa Parks
Rough Riders
Martin Luther King Jr
24. American painter from 1920's
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25. President of the US during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
The Jazz Age
26. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
George Washington
Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers
Korean War
27. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
Sputnik
The Scopes Trial
28. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
FDIC
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Double V Campaign
21st Amendment
29. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Great Compromise
26th Amendment
30. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Barbed wire
Martin Luther King Jr
Muckrakers
31. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Columbian Exchange
Miranda v. Arizona
Dawes Act
Andrew Carnegie
32. President 1963-68
Thomas Jefferson
19thAmendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Sacco and Vanzetti
33. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
Booker T. Washington
Reynolds v. Sims
34. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
GI Bill
Charles Lindbergh
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
WPA
35. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
court packing
Imperialism
Martin Luther King Jr
Rough Riders
36. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Berlin Airlift
Susan B. Anthony
The Baby Boom
Jacob Riis
37. President 1961-63
Reynolds v. Sims
Great Compromise
Gideon v. Wainwright
John F. Kennedy
38. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Industrialization
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
24th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
39. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Segregation
Laissez Faire
26th Amendment
Pearl Harbor
40. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Urbanization
Free Enterprise Economy
Bill of Rights
Hoovervilles
41. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Hoovervilles
Berlin Airlift
Segregation
Trench Warfare
42. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
The Little Rock Nine
Civil War
Nullification Crisis
Island hopping
43. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Segregation
King George III
John Scopes
Nikita Kruschev
44. Invented the vaccine for polio
Bill of Rights
The Little Rock Nine
Red Scare
Jonas Salk
45. No unlawful search and seizure.
4th Amendment
Social Darwinism
Reynolds v. Sims
Emancipation Proclamation
46. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Theodore Roosevelt
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Gloria Steinem
47. The right to vote for women.
19thAmendment
The Baby Boom
Treaty of Versailles
Dwight D. Eisenhower
48. Powers reserved to the states
Escobedo v. Illinois
Bill of Rights
The Scopes Trial
10th Amendment
49. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Samuel Adams
Booker T. Washington
World War II
Segregation
50. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Rosa Parks
Cattle Drives
Lyndon B. Johnson