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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Great Society
U.S.S. Maine
Reynolds v. Sims
U-2 Incident
2. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Treaty of Versailles
Cuban Missile Crisis
Urbanization
Georgia O'Keefe
3. President during Roaring 20's
Calvin Coolidge
17th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
22nd Amendment
4. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
U-2 Incident
Fidel Castro
Reynolds v. Sims
Nullification Crisis
5. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway
League of Nations
U-2 Incident
6. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Dust Bowl
Upton Sinclair
WPA
Great Compromise
7. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Charles Lindbergh
Warren G. Harding
court packing
1st Amendment
8. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
22nd Amendment
Samuel Adams
Prohibition
9. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Abraham Lincoln
Sputnik
Normandy
Social Darwinism
10. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Nullification Crisis
Homestead Act
Hoovervilles
John Scopes
11. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Hoovervilles
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Joe McCarthy
John F. Kennedy
12. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Joe McCarthy
Rough Riders
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
13. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Richard M. Nixon
Populism
Viet Nam
Andrew Carnegie
14. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
21st Amendment
Upton Sinclair
Shirley Chisholm
26th Amendment
15. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Rough Riders
Fourteen Points
The Baby Boom
Domino Theory
16. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Pearl Harbor
Tenements
Federalism
8th Amendment
17. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
26th Amendment
Bay of Pigs
Sputnik
Yellow Journalism
18. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Holocaust
9th Amendment
19. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
The Rosenberg's
George Wallace
Berlin Wall
Federalism
20. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Red Scare
William H. Taft
Laissez Faire
Civil War
21. Sets a term limit for the President
Command Economy
Escobedo v. Illinois
22nd Amendment
Watergate
22. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
World War I
John Scopes
Marshall Plan (1948)
Laissez Faire
23. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Medger Evers
Great Society
Escobedo v. Illinois
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
24. Invented the vaccine for polio
5th Amendment
Berlin Wall
Double V Campaign
Jonas Salk
25. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
GI Bill
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Holocaust
26. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
The New Deal
John J. Pershing
Free Enterprise Economy
8th Amendment
27. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
22nd Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
Douglas MacArthur
28. Established the federal income tax.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Dust Bowl
16th Amendment
Domino Theory
29. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Federalism
The Harlem Renaissance
Fidel Castro
Bill of Rights
30. The prohibition of alcohol.
The Scopes Trial
18th Amendment
Normandy
Booker T. Washington
31. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Industrialization
Douglas MacArthur
League of Nations
Jonas Salk
32. Alternate term for 1920's.
Brown v. Board of Education
The Jazz Age
FDIC
Berlin Wall
33. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
6th Amendment
Korean War
Battle of Midway
Fidel Castro
34. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Political machines
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Georgia O'Keefe
Susan B. Anthony
35. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
The Harlem Renaissance
Samuel Adams
Pearl Harbor
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
36. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Prohibition
Samuel Adams
Marshall Plan (1948)
26th Amendment
37. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
NATO (1959)
Viet Nam
George Wallace
38. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Charles Lindbergh
Dawes Act
Susan B. Anthony
The Baby Boom
39. 1914 - 1918
Marshall Plan (1948)
Fourteen Points
World War I
John J. Pershing
40. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Rough Riders
Great Society
NATO (1959)
41. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Reconstruction
FDIC
Joe McCarthy
SEC
42. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
The Great Migration
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Jonas Salk
Shirley Chisholm
43. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Homestead Act
Andrew Carnegie
WEB DuBois
Laissez Faire
44. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
22nd Amendment
Imperialism
WEB DuBois
George Washington
45. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Populism
13th Amendment
Separation of Powers
46. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Bobby Kennedy
The Baby Boom
Berlin Airlift
WEB DuBois
47. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Bracero Program
24th Amendment
Industrialization
Dust Bowl
48. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Berlin Airlift
Gideon v. Wainwright
Abraham Lincoln
Dawes Act
49. American painter from 1920's
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50. Abolished slavery
Dawes Act
13th Amendment
Cattle Drives
Truman Doctrine (1947)