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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Douglas MacArthur
Ronald Reagan
Elvis Presley
Sputnik
2. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Prohibition
Truman Doctrine (1947)
4th Amendment
Malcolm X
3. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Hoovervilles
Political machines
Segregation
Alfred Thayer Mahan
4. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Teapot Dome Scandal
SEC
Clarence Darrow
5. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
John J. Pershing
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Gloria Steinem
Great Society
6. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Checks and Balances
Douglas MacArthur
Martin Luther King Jr
24th Amendment
7. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Lyndon B. Johnson
League of Nations
John Scopes
8. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
13th Amendment
Reconstruction
Henry Ford
Nullification Crisis
9. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Baker v. Carr
The Jazz Age
Miranda v. Arizona
Fourteen Points
10. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
William 'Boss' Tweed
NATO (1959)
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Populism
11. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Nikita Kruschev
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Free Enterprise Economy
Samuel Adams
12. No cruel or unusual punishment.
George Washington
19thAmendment
8th Amendment
Checks and Balances
13. No quartering of troops during peace time
Gloria Steinem
Theodore Roosevelt
3rd Amendment
The Holocaust
14. Abolished the poll tax.
Spanish - American War
24th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
26th Amendment
15. New York political machine boss.
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16. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Yellow Journalism
John Scopes
The Harlem Renaissance
Booker T. Washington
17. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
Charles Lindbergh
Social Darwinism
Fidel Castro
18. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Trench Warfare
6th Amendment
Separation of Powers
19. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
Fidel Castro
Segregation
Joe McCarthy
20. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
World War I
17th Amendment
The Jazz Age
21. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Thomas Paine
Woodrow Wilson
Andrew Carnegie
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22. Founding father - politician - scientist
10th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Woodrow Wilson
Benjamin Franklin
23. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Imperialism
Industrialization
Homestead Act
U.S.S. Maine
24. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
William Jennings Bryan
Federalist Papers
Calvin Coolidge
Segregation
25. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Great Compromise
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Articles of Confederation
Plessy v. Ferguson
26. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
WEB DuBois
World War II
Baker v. Carr
Federalist Papers
27. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Berlin Wall
The War on Poverty
Island hopping
Bracero Program
28. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
24th Amendment
Clarence Darrow
Manifest Destiny
World War I
29. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Baby Boom
Industrialization
Cattle Drives
Transcontinental railroad
30. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Charles Lindbergh
Transcontinental railroad
World War I
31. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
court packing
21st Amendment
Marshall Plan (1948)
King George III
32. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Red Scare
Martin Luther King Jr
Abraham Lincoln
16th Amendment
33. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
WPA
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Fidel Castro
Muckrakers
34. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Ronald Reagan
Normandy
Yellow Journalism
Fourteen Points
35. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
18th Amendment
Cattle Drives
Prohibition
Gloria Steinem
36. Established the federal income tax.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
NATO (1959)
16th Amendment
7th Amendment
37. Alternate term for 1920's.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Jazz Age
The Rosenberg's
Treaty of Versailles
38. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Columbian Exchange
Nikita Kruschev
The Little Rock Nine
The Baby Boom
39. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Ronald Reagan
Columbian Exchange
Upton Sinclair
The Great Migration
40. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
George Wallace
Dawes Act
Omar Bradley
14th Amendment
41. Communist leader of Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Transcontinental railroad
Upton Sinclair
15th Amendment
42. President during Roaring 20's
Jim Crow laws
Federalist Papers
6th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
43. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
League of Nations
Harry S. Truman
Trench Warfare
Alfred Thayer Mahan
44. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The New Deal
The Rosenberg's
45. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Treaty of Versailles
Great Compromise
Cesar Chavez
2nd Amendment
46. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Rough Riders
Bay of Pigs
William H. Taft
FDIC
47. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Susan B. Anthony
Bill of Rights
Samuel Adams
Emancipation Proclamation
48. Sets a term limit for the President
Watergate
Sputnik
22nd Amendment
George Wallace
49. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
6th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
NATO (1959)
Berlin Airlift
50. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Richard M. Nixon
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Marshall Plan (1948)
George Wallace