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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
Sputnik
The Jazz Age
Hoovervilles
2. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Escobedo v. Illinois
24th Amendment
Omar Bradley
Brown v. Board of Education
3. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Yellow Journalism
Battle of Midway
8th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
4. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Gloria Steinem
Homestead Act
4th Amendment
Bay of Pigs
5. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Watergate
Susan B. Anthony
Andrew Carnegie
6. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
William 'Boss' Tweed
Dawes Act
Richard M. Nixon
7. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Nikita Kruschev
8. No unlawful search and seizure.
7th Amendment
Muckrakers
4th Amendment
2nd Amendment
9. Established the federal income tax.
9th Amendment
William 'Boss' Tweed
Yellow Journalism
16th Amendment
10. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
The Holocaust
U.S.S. Maine
WPA
Susan B. Anthony
11. Alternate term for 1920's.
26th Amendment
Civil War
The Jazz Age
George Wallace
12. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Theodore Roosevelt
The Baby Boom
Sputnik
13. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Jacob Riis
The Little Rock Nine
George Wallace
7th Amendment
14. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Civil War
Samuel Adams
Miranda v. Arizona
court packing
15. Trial by jury.
Reconstruction
7th Amendment
Trench Warfare
Omar Bradley
16. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
WEB DuBois
Viet Nam
Bracero Program
Emancipation Proclamation
17. Progressive president who served during WW I.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
4th Amendment
Manifest Destiny
Woodrow Wilson
18. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
George Wallace
Teapot Dome Scandal
Truman Doctrine (1947)
19. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Berlin Wall
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Dawes Act
18th Amendment
20. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
Georgia O'Keefe
The Little Rock Nine
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
21. President of the US during the Civil War.
Flappers
Martin Luther King Jr
Georgia O'Keefe
Abraham Lincoln
22. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Normandy
Pearl Harbor
9th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
23. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
U-2 Incident
3rd Amendment
Sacco and Vanzetti
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
24. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Spanish - American War
The Harlem Renaissance
Joe McCarthy
Woodrow Wilson
25. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
Cattle Drives
26th Amendment
Reconstruction
26. The right to a fast and public trial.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
George Washington
Marshall Plan (1948)
6th Amendment
27. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Red Scare
Andrew Carnegie
Dawes Act
28. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
9th Amendment
Barbed wire
Domino Theory
Columbian Exchange
29. Sets a term limit for the President
Andrew Carnegie
22nd Amendment
Populism
Hoovervilles
30. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Berlin Wall
Benjamin Franklin
21st Amendment
Dawes Act
31. Founding father - politician - scientist
Thomas Jefferson
Cesar Chavez
Andrew Carnegie
Benjamin Franklin
32. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
The Great Migration
William 'Boss' Tweed
Lyndon B. Johnson
Reconstruction
33. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
George Wallace
Battle of Wounded Knee
Sacco and Vanzetti
34. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Korean War
6th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
35. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Imperialism
WPA
U-2 Incident
36. President during Roaring 20's
WPA
Calvin Coolidge
6th Amendment
5th Amendment
37. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Hoovervilles
Yellow Journalism
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Elvis Presley
38. American painter from 1920's
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39. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Warren G. Harding
NATO (1959)
Great Society
Gloria Steinem
40. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Muckrakers
Clarence Darrow
The New Deal
WEB DuBois
41. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Great Compromise
Warren G. Harding
Gloria Steinem
13th Amendment
42. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel Adams
Lyndon B. Johnson
43. 1914 - 1918
World War I
Theodore Roosevelt
Transcontinental railroad
Island hopping
44. Abolished slavery
13th Amendment
Bill of Rights
16th Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
45. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Theodore Roosevelt
SEC
17th Amendment
46. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Fidel Castro
The New Deal
William Jennings Bryan
Thomas Paine
47. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Populism
U-2 Incident
The Holocaust
Fidel Castro
48. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Booker T. Washington
21st Amendment
Bill of Rights
Alfred Thayer Mahan
49. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Ronald Reagan
The Jazz Age
Segregation
50. Movement of people into a country from another country.
World War I
Immigration
Benjamin Franklin
NATO (1959)