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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
League of Nations
4th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. President 1963-68
Lyndon B. Johnson
Korean War
Theodore Roosevelt
Populism
3. No quartering of troops during peace time
3rd Amendment
Medger Evers
Pearl Harbor
Miranda v. Arizona
4. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Watergate
Imperialism
Fourteen Points
1st Amendment
5. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Calvin Coolidge
21st Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
7th Amendment
6. President during Roaring 20's
Lyndon B. Johnson
Benjamin Franklin
Medger Evers
Calvin Coolidge
7. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
John Scopes
Federalism
Trench Warfare
8. President 1961-63
Miranda v. Arizona
John F. Kennedy
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Domino Theory
9. The right to a fast and public trial.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Ronald Reagan
5th Amendment
6th Amendment
10. Abolished slavery
Ronald Reagan
Berlin Wall
13th Amendment
Harry S. Truman
11. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Yellow Journalism
GI Bill
Douglas MacArthur
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
12. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Thomas Jefferson
Berlin Wall
U.S.S. Maine
8th Amendment
13. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Rosa Parks
Pearl Harbor
Clarence Darrow
Watergate
14. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Harry S. Truman
3rd Amendment
Spanish - American War
Barbed wire
15. Right to bear arms
Great Society
2nd Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Reconstruction
16. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
Civil War
GI Bill
Immigration
17. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Flappers
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
18. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
U.S.S. Maine
19. Separation by race.
Ronald Reagan
Segregation
Abraham Lincoln
court packing
20. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
William H. Taft
The Scopes Trial
7th Amendment
Sacco and Vanzetti
21. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
9th Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
Flappers
World War I
22. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Double V Campaign
Woodrow Wilson
The New Deal
Muckrakers
23. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Omar Bradley
Reconstruction
Populism
Urbanization
24. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
WPA
Neil Armstrong
Harry S. Truman
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
25. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Benjamin Franklin
21st Amendment
Charles Lindbergh
Social Darwinism
26. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Baker v. Carr
Emancipation Proclamation
7th Amendment
George Wallace
27. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
26th Amendment
Watergate
Korean War
George Washington
28. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Columbian Exchange
Medger Evers
Cuban Missile Crisis
15th Amendment
29. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Federalist Papers
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Emancipation Proclamation
William 'Boss' Tweed
30. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Imperialism
Dust Bowl
The Scopes Trial
31. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Gloria Steinem
Rough Riders
Bracero Program
Elvis Presley
32. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Yellow Journalism
NATO (1959)
Richard M. Nixon
Susan B. Anthony
33. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Urbanization
Battle of Wounded Knee
Harry S. Truman
FDIC
34. The prohibition of alcohol.
Social Darwinism
Reynolds v. Sims
19thAmendment
18th Amendment
35. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Watergate
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Holocaust
36. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
14th Amendment
Medger Evers
Shirley Chisholm
37. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Immigration
John Scopes
SEC
Calvin Coolidge
38. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Urbanization
Calvin Coolidge
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Baker v. Carr
39. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Medger Evers
John Scopes
The Articles of Confederation
George Wallace
40. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Dawes Act
The Articles of Confederation
Domino Theory
Laissez Faire
41. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Great Compromise
The Rosenberg's
Upton Sinclair
Muckrakers
42. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
14th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Booker T. Washington
43. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
U-2 Incident
Bay of Pigs
GI Bill
The Harlem Renaissance
44. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
24th Amendment
Jonas Salk
The Harlem Renaissance
Susan B. Anthony
45. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Industrialization
FDIC
2nd Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
46. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
3rd Amendment
John Scopes
Malcolm X
Upton Sinclair
47. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Segregation
The War on Poverty
8th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
48. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Escobedo v. Illinois
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Dust Bowl
King George III
49. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Dust Bowl
Tenements
Civil War
Yellow Journalism
50. Established the federal income tax.
Bobby Kennedy
16th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
The New Deal