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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Andrew Carnegie
6th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Ronald Reagan
2. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
Charles Lindbergh
Jonas Salk
Cesar Chavez
3. 1860 - 1865
The Great Migration
Civil War
William 'Boss' Tweed
Federalism
4. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
Segregation
Clarence Darrow
Laissez Faire
5. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
George Wallace
Imperialism
Checks and Balances
6. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Great Compromise
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
5th Amendment
Great Society
7. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
NATO (1959)
2nd Amendment
The Scopes Trial
Spanish - American War
8. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Civil War
Double V Campaign
14th Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
9. New York political machine boss.
10. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Clarence Darrow
Populism
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
8th Amendment
11. President 1963-68
Ronald Reagan
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bracero Program
7th Amendment
12. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Ronald Reagan
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
George Wallace
Plessy v. Ferguson
13. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Flappers
Reynolds v. Sims
Double V Campaign
7th Amendment
14. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Containment
Upton Sinclair
Rosa Parks
Island hopping
15. No cruel or unusual punishment.
WPA
8th Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
Jonas Salk
16. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Medger Evers
14th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
Barbed wire
17. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
The Scopes Trial
Transcontinental railroad
Brown v. Board of Education
18. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
World War II
Miranda v. Arizona
Normandy
court packing
19. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
court packing
George Washington
William H. Taft
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
20. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
Berlin Wall
19thAmendment
George Washington
21. Invented the vaccine for polio
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Truman Doctrine (1947)
16th Amendment
Jonas Salk
22. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
The Holocaust
Susan B. Anthony
FDIC
William H. Taft
23. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Immigration
Transcontinental railroad
Medger Evers
24. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Federalism
Andrew Carnegie
Battle of Wounded Knee
Fidel Castro
25. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Columbian Exchange
Baker v. Carr
The Scopes Trial
Island hopping
26. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
Trench Warfare
Battle of Wounded Knee
Imperialism
27. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
John Scopes
The Great Migration
WEB DuBois
Sputnik
28. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
King George III
The Holocaust
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
The Little Rock Nine
29. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Ronald Reagan
King George III
Dust Bowl
Cattle Drives
30. President of the US during the Civil War.
Ronald Reagan
Abraham Lincoln
John J. Pershing
GI Bill
31. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Hoovervilles
6th Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
World War II
32. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
William H. Taft
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Berlin Airlift
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Flappers
The New Deal
Homestead Act
U.S.S. Maine
34. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
Woodrow Wilson
Civil War
4th Amendment
35. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Watergate
Miranda v. Arizona
The Articles of Confederation
League of Nations
36. Power is shared between the states and national government.
The War on Poverty
Tenements
Federalism
Separation of Powers
37. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
SEC
Populism
Viet Nam
Berlin Wall
38. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
3rd Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
26th Amendment
Normandy
39. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
5th Amendment
3rd Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
40. Right to bear arms
Manifest Destiny
Bill of Rights
2nd Amendment
18th Amendment
41. Communist leader of Cuba.
Battle of Midway
Fidel Castro
Industrialization
World War I
42. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
Great Society
Samuel Adams
George Washington
43. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
William Jennings Bryan
Sputnik
8th Amendment
Bay of Pigs
44. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Bay of Pigs
Imperialism
Upton Sinclair
Bobby Kennedy
45. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Gideon v. Wainwright
The War on Poverty
Laissez Faire
Teapot Dome Scandal
46. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Miranda v. Arizona
FDIC
George Washington
Joe McCarthy
47. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
The Great Migration
Laissez Faire
Dust Bowl
WPA
48. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
7th Amendment
15th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
49. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Manifest Destiny
Brown v. Board of Education
Ronald Reagan
The Scopes Trial
50. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cuban Missile Crisis
Booker T. Washington
U.S.S. Maine