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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Immigration
Laissez Faire
Brown v. Board of Education
Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
10th Amendment
Populism
Upton Sinclair
3. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Flappers
Miranda v. Arizona
10th Amendment
The Holocaust
4. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Clarence Darrow
Henry Ford
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
U-2 Incident
5. President 1963-68
Lyndon B. Johnson
Warren G. Harding
Samuel Adams
Rosa Parks
6. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Social Darwinism
Thomas Jefferson
John J. Pershing
FDIC
7. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Jim Crow laws
Laissez Faire
NATO (1959)
Korean War
8. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Benjamin Franklin
4th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
Truman Doctrine (1947)
9. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Berlin Wall
Henry Ford
Separation of Powers
10. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Susan B. Anthony
Harry S. Truman
1st Amendment
Island hopping
11. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Great Society
King George III
Calvin Coolidge
Truman Doctrine (1947)
12. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
The Articles of Confederation
Martin Luther King Jr
Thomas Paine
Miranda v. Arizona
13. Founding father - politician - scientist
Benjamin Franklin
Woodrow Wilson
Red Scare
Bracero Program
14. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
John Scopes
Urbanization
Command Economy
Lyndon B. Johnson
15. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Treaty of Versailles
SEC
The War on Poverty
16. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Containment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Plessy v. Ferguson
Battle of Wounded Knee
17. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Cesar Chavez
Watergate
John J. Pershing
Woodrow Wilson
18. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Reynolds v. Sims
Red Scare
19. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Great Society
Dust Bowl
The Harlem Renaissance
The Articles of Confederation
20. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Fidel Castro
Cattle Drives
Federalist Papers
21. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Baby Boom
Berlin Wall
18th Amendment
4th Amendment
22. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
FDIC
Bracero Program
Domino Theory
Social Darwinism
23. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Douglas MacArthur
Fourteen Points
Island hopping
24. Competition between European countries to create empires.
21st Amendment
Imperialism
William 'Boss' Tweed
Baker v. Carr
25. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Joe McCarthy
Richard M. Nixon
The Harlem Renaissance
Berlin Airlift
26. United Farm Workers activist
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Charles Lindbergh
Bay of Pigs
Cesar Chavez
27. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Douglas MacArthur
16th Amendment
Great Compromise
Command Economy
28. Right to bear arms
Viet Nam
Thomas Jefferson
2nd Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
29. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Bay of Pigs
Command Economy
Reconstruction
GI Bill
30. Trial by jury.
7th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
13th Amendment
Tenements
31. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Columbian Exchange
Checks and Balances
Jim Crow laws
Reynolds v. Sims
32. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Fidel Castro
The Scopes Trial
Bay of Pigs
Plessy v. Ferguson
33. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Elvis Presley
9th Amendment
5th Amendment
Spanish - American War
34. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
Medger Evers
7th Amendment
19thAmendment
35. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Gloria Steinem
14th Amendment
SEC
17th Amendment
36. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Treaty of Versailles
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bill of Rights
37. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Charles Lindbergh
9th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
38. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
Thomas Paine
14th Amendment
Samuel Adams
39. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Populism
Korean War
Homestead Act
Lyndon B. Johnson
40. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
The Baby Boom
Flappers
Separation of Powers
FDIC
41. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Samuel Adams
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Federalism
42. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
John J. Pershing
William Jennings Bryan
King George III
Teapot Dome Scandal
43. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Great Migration
Charles Lindbergh
Cattle Drives
Jim Crow laws
44. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Prohibition
George Washington
Great Compromise
Ronald Reagan
45. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Checks and Balances
Samuel Adams
Emancipation Proclamation
Korean War
46. The right to vote for women.
Miranda v. Arizona
Transcontinental railroad
William 'Boss' Tweed
19thAmendment
47. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Sputnik
Great Society
8th Amendment
Urbanization
48. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
18th Amendment
Fourteen Points
Containment
Sputnik
49. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Political machines
8th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
Malcolm X
50. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
George Wallace
Sputnik
Elvis Presley