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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Early rock n ' roll performer
Battle of Midway
5th Amendment
The New Deal
Elvis Presley
2. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
U.S.S. Maine
4th Amendment
Federalism
Plessy v. Ferguson
3. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
U.S.S. Maine
Treaty of Versailles
Martin Luther King Jr
Susan B. Anthony
4. Abolished slavery
Berlin Wall
Viet Nam
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
13th Amendment
5. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Bobby Kennedy
5th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Domino Theory
6. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Jacob Riis
Dawes Act
Miranda v. Arizona
7. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Viet Nam
Ronald Reagan
Containment
Cesar Chavez
8. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Gloria Steinem
Escobedo v. Illinois
The Articles of Confederation
Political machines
9. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Rough Riders
Cattle Drives
Fidel Castro
World War II
10. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Populism
William H. Taft
Calvin Coolidge
GI Bill
11. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Muckrakers
Sacco and Vanzetti
Tenements
Flappers
12. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Douglas MacArthur
Marshall Plan (1948)
The Harlem Renaissance
Gloria Steinem
13. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Dwight D. Eisenhower
5th Amendment
World War I
14. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Korean War
Thomas Paine
3rd Amendment
Bill of Rights
15. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Immigration
1st Amendment
Samuel Adams
Civil War
16. 1914 - 1918
World War I
Medger Evers
The Jazz Age
Fourteen Points
17. Alternate term for 1920's.
Gloria Steinem
The Jazz Age
Checks and Balances
Political machines
18. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Lyndon B. Johnson
Teapot Dome Scandal
Homestead Act
Populism
19. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Manifest Destiny
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
League of Nations
Sputnik
20. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
U.S.S. Maine
Sputnik
Battle of Wounded Knee
13th Amendment
21. No cruel or unusual punishment.
21st Amendment
The War on Poverty
Berlin Wall
8th Amendment
22. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
15th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
19thAmendment
23. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
The Rosenberg's
Segregation
Great Society
Domino Theory
24. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Reconstruction
Ronald Reagan
Charles Lindbergh
Bay of Pigs
25. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
21st Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
3rd Amendment
26. The right to a fast and public trial.
Berlin Airlift
6th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
Warren G. Harding
27. Right to bear arms
Separation of Powers
Dust Bowl
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
2nd Amendment
28. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
The Little Rock Nine
Bay of Pigs
8th Amendment
15th Amendment
29. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Bill of Rights
WEB DuBois
Harry S. Truman
George Washington
30. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Spanish - American War
Normandy
Harry S. Truman
Korean War
31. Separation by race.
10th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
Segregation
Reynolds v. Sims
32. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
The Baby Boom
U.S.S. Maine
Island hopping
Bay of Pigs
33. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Jacob Riis
Omar Bradley
Medger Evers
Theodore Roosevelt
34. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Jazz Age
Federalism
WPA
35. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Harlem Renaissance
William Jennings Bryan
The Rosenberg's
Plessy v. Ferguson
36. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Hoovervilles
Woodrow Wilson
14th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
37. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
16th Amendment
13th Amendment
Thomas Paine
George Washington
38. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Berlin Airlift
Imperialism
Cattle Drives
39. 1860 - 1865
Woodrow Wilson
Berlin Airlift
Civil War
WPA
40. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
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41. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
World War I
Checks and Balances
Andrew Carnegie
Brown v. Board of Education
42. Communist leader of Cuba.
Berlin Airlift
Reynolds v. Sims
Cattle Drives
Fidel Castro
43. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Transcontinental railroad
Andrew Carnegie
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Georgia O'Keefe
44. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Battle of Midway
Berlin Wall
Federalist Papers
45. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Richard M. Nixon
Plessy v. Ferguson
FDIC
World War II
46. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Dawes Act
Clarence Darrow
Populism
47. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Samuel Adams
Upton Sinclair
The Great Migration
court packing
48. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Great Migration
Pearl Harbor
21st Amendment
49. Abolished the poll tax.
24th Amendment
Charles Lindbergh
Plessy v. Ferguson
William H. Taft
50. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Dust Bowl
Plessy v. Ferguson
Trench Warfare
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