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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
4th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
Island hopping
2. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
The Great Migration
Immigration
Booker T. Washington
The Little Rock Nine
3. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
Civil War
Segregation
Calvin Coolidge
4. President during Roaring 20's
Susan B. Anthony
Calvin Coolidge
8th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
5. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Abraham Lincoln
Harry S. Truman
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
9th Amendment
6. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Woodrow Wilson
Korean War
court packing
U-2 Incident
7. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
The New Deal
Henry Ford
The Jazz Age
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8. 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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9. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Hoovervilles
Free Enterprise Economy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
10. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Viet Nam
Federalism
Imperialism
11. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
Command Economy
Ronald Reagan
16th Amendment
12. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Berlin Airlift
William Jennings Bryan
The Harlem Renaissance
13. Progressive president who served during WW I.
The War on Poverty
The Little Rock Nine
Red Scare
Woodrow Wilson
14. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
21st Amendment
Double V Campaign
Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
15. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Muckrakers
Nikita Kruschev
Dust Bowl
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
16. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Homestead Act
John F. Kennedy
Containment
Battle of Wounded Knee
17. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Sputnik
9th Amendment
Watergate
Rough Riders
18. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Normandy
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Free Enterprise Economy
19. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Bracero Program
Battle of Midway
Viet Nam
Plessy v. Ferguson
20. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Federalism
Great Society
Dust Bowl
Pearl Harbor
21. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Warren G. Harding
Nikita Kruschev
26th Amendment
Nullification Crisis
22. No quartering of troops during peace time
The Rosenberg's
19thAmendment
Jacob Riis
3rd Amendment
23. Abolished the poll tax.
Brown v. Board of Education
John J. Pershing
9th Amendment
24th Amendment
24. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Nikita Kruschev
Bay of Pigs
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Harry S. Truman
25. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Bracero Program
Segregation
John Scopes
William 'Boss' Tweed
26. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Sputnik
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Muckrakers
The Baby Boom
27. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Henry Ford
Theodore Roosevelt
Cuban Missile Crisis
WPA
28. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Transcontinental railroad
Bracero Program
21st Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
29. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Neil Armstrong
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Korean War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Prohibition
Omar Bradley
31. Established the federal income tax.
Normandy
Woodrow Wilson
Urbanization
16th Amendment
32. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Political machines
Rough Riders
Watergate
Woodrow Wilson
33. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
FDIC
18th Amendment
Watergate
Korean War
34. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Charles Lindbergh
Bay of Pigs
Gloria Steinem
Flappers
35. President 1980-88.
Battle of Midway
Korean War
26th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
36. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
King George III
Malcolm X
U.S.S. Maine
21st Amendment
37. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
18th Amendment
NATO (1959)
William H. Taft
38. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Calvin Coolidge
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Columbian Exchange
Spanish - American War
39. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
4th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Double V Campaign
Thomas Paine
40. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
9th Amendment
Great Compromise
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Kruschev
41. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Trench Warfare
42. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Bay of Pigs
Command Economy
7th Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
43. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Imperialism
The War on Poverty
Harry S. Truman
League of Nations
44. Abolished slavery
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Articles of Confederation
13th Amendment
45. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Harlem Renaissance
The Rosenberg's
Cesar Chavez
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
46. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sacco and Vanzetti
U.S.S. Maine
Separation of Powers
47. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Rosa Parks
Civil War
Marshall Plan (1948)
26th Amendment
48. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Teapot Dome Scandal
Henry Ford
Civil War
John J. Pershing
49. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Cesar Chavez
Malcolm X
5th Amendment
15th Amendment
50. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Martin Luther King Jr