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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Island hopping
Populism
Watergate
League of Nations
2. No cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Fidel Castro
24th Amendment
Charles Lindbergh
3. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
The Holocaust
George Washington
Bill of Rights
Miranda v. Arizona
4. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Cuban Missile Crisis
World War I
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rough Riders
5. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Brown v. Board of Education
Laissez Faire
15th Amendment
9th Amendment
6. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tenements
18th Amendment
Sputnik
Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. The prohibition of alcohol.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Yellow Journalism
18th Amendment
GI Bill
8. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Baker v. Carr
The Harlem Renaissance
Korean War
Battle of Midway
9. President 1961-63
Transcontinental railroad
The War on Poverty
John F. Kennedy
21st Amendment
10. Trial by jury.
Douglas MacArthur
John J. Pershing
7th Amendment
Henry Ford
11. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
World War I
Yellow Journalism
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Federalism
12. Abolished the poll tax.
Imperialism
Red Scare
24th Amendment
Prohibition
13. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Barbed wire
Berlin Airlift
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Jim Crow laws
14. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Prohibition
15th Amendment
Checks and Balances
World War I
15. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5th Amendment
Watergate
Nikita Kruschev
16. Movement of people into a country from another country.
The Little Rock Nine
Immigration
13th Amendment
NATO (1959)
17. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Upton Sinclair
2nd Amendment
Social Darwinism
Flappers
18. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
The Holocaust
14th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
19. President 1980-88.
Laissez Faire
Urbanization
Thomas Jefferson
Ronald Reagan
20. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
3rd Amendment
Urbanization
Omar Bradley
The Little Rock Nine
21. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
13th Amendment
Island hopping
26th Amendment
Normandy
22. President during Roaring 20's
William Jennings Bryan
Calvin Coolidge
Omar Bradley
Henry Ford
23. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Battle of Wounded Knee
Free Enterprise Economy
The War on Poverty
24. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Homestead Act
Spanish - American War
Charles Lindbergh
Reynolds v. Sims
25. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Douglas MacArthur
4th Amendment
Fidel Castro
The War on Poverty
26. United Farm Workers activist
Federalist Papers
Treaty of Versailles
Cesar Chavez
Bracero Program
27. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Reconstruction
Political machines
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
17th Amendment
28. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
FDIC
John Scopes
Urbanization
2nd Amendment
29. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
Malcolm X
Henry Ford
George Washington
30. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Reconstruction
Samuel Adams
Populism
5th Amendment
31. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
The New Deal
Brown v. Board of Education
Columbian Exchange
Warren G. Harding
32. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Industrialization
13th Amendment
Viet Nam
The Articles of Confederation
33. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Urbanization
Trench Warfare
William 'Boss' Tweed
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
34. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Urbanization
Teapot Dome Scandal
Plessy v. Ferguson
7th Amendment
35. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
George Wallace
6th Amendment
Dawes Act
Separation of Powers
36. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
5th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Watergate
Island hopping
37. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
The Baby Boom
Baker v. Carr
Watergate
Georgia O'Keefe
38. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Great Society
John Scopes
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
court packing
39. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Susan B. Anthony
6th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
Muckrakers
40. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Containment
Transcontinental railroad
Gloria Steinem
6th Amendment
41. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
William 'Boss' Tweed
George Washington
Industrialization
Douglas MacArthur
42. Established the federal income tax.
William Jennings Bryan
15th Amendment
Charles Lindbergh
16th Amendment
43. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
U-2 Incident
Populism
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Civil War
44. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Charles Lindbergh
5th Amendment
NATO (1959)
45. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Laissez Faire
The Rosenberg's
Brown v. Board of Education
Dust Bowl
46. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
16th Amendment
The Baby Boom
Henry Ford
47. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Trench Warfare
Containment
GI Bill
Benjamin Franklin
48. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Rough Riders
Omar Bradley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Brown v. Board of Education
49. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The Great Migration
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
26th Amendment
The War on Poverty
50. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Command Economy
GI Bill
George Wallace
Normandy