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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Powers reserved to the states
The Baby Boom
26th Amendment
U.S.S. Maine
10th Amendment
2. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Dust Bowl
Urbanization
The Harlem Renaissance
Escobedo v. Illinois
3. New York political machine boss.
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4. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Escobedo v. Illinois
Cesar Chavez
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21st Amendment
5. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
The Great Migration
The Rosenberg's
22nd Amendment
Spanish - American War
6. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm
U.S.S. Maine
FDIC
Sputnik
7. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
The Jazz Age
Checks and Balances
Dwight D. Eisenhower
WPA
8. Trial by jury.
3rd Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
The Scopes Trial
7th Amendment
9. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Homestead Act
Bracero Program
Jonas Salk
Cesar Chavez
10. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Civil War
Woodrow Wilson
Checks and Balances
Booker T. Washington
11. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Baker v. Carr
Henry Ford
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Barbed wire
12. Right to bear arms
Reconstruction
2nd Amendment
William 'Boss' Tweed
World War II
13. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
The War on Poverty
14th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Great Compromise
14. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
Cesar Chavez
1st Amendment
Warren G. Harding
15. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Homestead Act
Checks and Balances
Trench Warfare
The Scopes Trial
16. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
2nd Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Medger Evers
17th Amendment
17. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Social Darwinism
The Articles of Confederation
Homestead Act
Richard M. Nixon
18. Invented the vaccine for polio
Social Darwinism
Jonas Salk
Hoovervilles
Cattle Drives
19. Separation by race.
Segregation
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Columbian Exchange
Dwight D. Eisenhower
20. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
26th Amendment
League of Nations
Benjamin Franklin
21. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Cuban Missile Crisis
6th Amendment
Spanish - American War
Fidel Castro
22. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Imperialism
Jim Crow laws
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
23. No quartering of troops during peace time
3rd Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Elvis Presley
Clarence Darrow
24. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Rosa Parks
Great Compromise
25. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
13th Amendment
Jacob Riis
Medger Evers
5th Amendment
26. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Treaty of Versailles
9th Amendment
4th Amendment
Malcolm X
27. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
The Rosenberg's
Battle of Midway
Benjamin Franklin
Andrew Carnegie
28. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
26th Amendment
17th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
29. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
World War I
14th Amendment
17th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
30. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
court packing
Gideon v. Wainwright
Marshall Plan (1948)
Battle of Midway
31. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Tenements
Watergate
Columbian Exchange
Free Enterprise Economy
32. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
WPA
The Articles of Confederation
William 'Boss' Tweed
2nd Amendment
33. Established the federal income tax.
15th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
Transcontinental railroad
16th Amendment
34. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Homestead Act
Samuel Adams
35. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Charles Lindbergh
1st Amendment
21st Amendment
Omar Bradley
36. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Muckrakers
Rough Riders
Henry Ford
Bracero Program
37. United Farm Workers activist
The Holocaust
Cesar Chavez
U-2 Incident
Columbian Exchange
38. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Manifest Destiny
Separation of Powers
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Samuel Adams
39. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Normandy
Homestead Act
Viet Nam
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
40. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Battle of Midway
Prohibition
Brown v. Board of Education
Domino Theory
41. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Island hopping
Pearl Harbor
The Holocaust
42. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Dawes Act
Checks and Balances
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
court packing
43. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Homestead Act
Dust Bowl
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Battle of Wounded Knee
44. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Fourteen Points
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Containment
Clarence Darrow
45. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Andrew Carnegie
Jonas Salk
The Great Migration
court packing
46. Communist leader of Cuba.
Georgia O'Keefe
Fidel Castro
Industrialization
Richard M. Nixon
47. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Jazz Age
3rd Amendment
Political machines
48. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
4th Amendment
Federalist Papers
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jennings Bryan
49. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Industrialization
Samuel Adams
Homestead Act
5th Amendment
50. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Dawes Act
Douglas MacArthur
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Omar Bradley
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