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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Island hopping
19thAmendment
21st Amendment
26th Amendment
2. Established the federal income tax.
Abraham Lincoln
Berlin Wall
16th Amendment
Immigration
3. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
William Jennings Bryan
U-2 Incident
Political machines
Jacob Riis
4. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Korean War
9th Amendment
Segregation
Abraham Lincoln
5. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Yellow Journalism
Omar Bradley
The Holocaust
6. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
9th Amendment
John J. Pershing
The Baby Boom
Berlin Wall
7. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Omar Bradley
Treaty of Versailles
Berlin Wall
Reconstruction
8. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Checks and Balances
Double V Campaign
Domino Theory
2nd Amendment
9. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
14th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
Richard M. Nixon
Trench Warfare
10. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Fourteen Points
Lyndon B. Johnson
Brown v. Board of Education
Bill of Rights
11. United Farm Workers activist
21st Amendment
Federalist Papers
Prohibition
Cesar Chavez
12. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Trench Warfare
Baker v. Carr
SEC
NATO (1959)
13. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Normandy
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Prohibition
Fourteen Points
14. Invented the vaccine for polio
Bay of Pigs
Cesar Chavez
16th Amendment
Jonas Salk
15. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Susan B. Anthony
Medger Evers
Tenements
Rough Riders
16. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
Samuel Adams
FDIC
NATO (1959)
17. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Cesar Chavez
Fourteen Points
George Washington
Ronald Reagan
18. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sacco and Vanzetti
Watergate
19. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Woodrow Wilson
Dawes Act
Gloria Steinem
Bay of Pigs
20. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
The Great Migration
Teapot Dome Scandal
John Scopes
The Baby Boom
21. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Douglas MacArthur
The New Deal
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Double V Campaign
22. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Checks and Balances
Escobedo v. Illinois
Political machines
Tenements
23. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Battle of Midway
Woodrow Wilson
WEB DuBois
Columbian Exchange
24. Progressive president who served during WW I.
The New Deal
Woodrow Wilson
Imperialism
Dust Bowl
25. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
The Scopes Trial
Great Compromise
U.S.S. Maine
Manifest Destiny
26. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Domino Theory
Berlin Airlift
Brown v. Board of Education
Viet Nam
27. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Manifest Destiny
Spanish - American War
Political machines
Free Enterprise Economy
28. New York political machine boss.
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29. President 1961-63
George Wallace
John F. Kennedy
World War II
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
30. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
19thAmendment
Jim Crow laws
U-2 Incident
31. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
court packing
Tenements
Great Society
32. The right to vote for women.
Industrialization
19thAmendment
6th Amendment
7th Amendment
33. 1860 - 1865
Civil War
8th Amendment
FDIC
18th Amendment
34. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Joe McCarthy
Domino Theory
Populism
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
35. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
7th Amendment
Thomas Paine
Laissez Faire
Alfred Thayer Mahan
36. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm
Berlin Wall
Reconstruction
Spanish - American War
37. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Treaty of Versailles
Checks and Balances
Warren G. Harding
9th Amendment
38. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
NATO (1959)
6th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
Bill of Rights
39. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
U.S.S. Maine
Andrew Carnegie
The Holocaust
Separation of Powers
40. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Jim Crow laws
Nikita Kruschev
Checks and Balances
Truman Doctrine (1947)
41. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Malcolm X
Nullification Crisis
Upton Sinclair
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Abraham Lincoln
Flappers
Muckrakers
Double V Campaign
43. Separation by race.
Segregation
Cuban Missile Crisis
Pearl Harbor
Columbian Exchange
44. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Miranda v. Arizona
The New Deal
Berlin Airlift
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
45. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Cesar Chavez
Gloria Steinem
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bay of Pigs
46. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Island hopping
Andrew Carnegie
Immigration
47. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Flappers
Omar Bradley
Nullification Crisis
Jim Crow laws
48. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Gideon v. Wainwright
Malcolm X
The Great Migration
49. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Containment
John Scopes
The Harlem Renaissance
Omar Bradley
50. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Transcontinental railroad
The Great Migration
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
16th Amendment