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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
Korean War
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
2. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
16th Amendment
10th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
Great Society
3. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Separation of Powers
Thomas Jefferson
8th Amendment
Immigration
4. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Separation of Powers
Civil War
Shirley Chisholm
19thAmendment
5. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
Clarence Darrow
Ronald Reagan
The Rosenberg's
6. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
Martin Luther King Jr
Abraham Lincoln
6th Amendment
7. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Rough Riders
SEC
Social Darwinism
8. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
League of Nations
John J. Pershing
Rough Riders
Treaty of Versailles
9. Trial by jury.
Joe McCarthy
7th Amendment
Great Compromise
Woodrow Wilson
10. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
14th Amendment
The New Deal
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Lindbergh
11. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Federalism
Shirley Chisholm
Island hopping
NATO (1959)
12. Powers reserved to the states
The War on Poverty
George Washington
10th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
13. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Berlin Wall
Command Economy
Escobedo v. Illinois
17th Amendment
14. New York political machine boss.
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15. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Clarence Darrow
Transcontinental railroad
Flappers
21st Amendment
16. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
The New Deal
Sacco and Vanzetti
Trench Warfare
Bracero Program
17. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Sputnik
Baker v. Carr
Dawes Act
Thomas Paine
18. Alternate term for 1920's.
Prohibition
The Jazz Age
Jim Crow laws
John Scopes
19. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
The Scopes Trial
18th Amendment
Malcolm X
Domino Theory
20. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Clarence Darrow
Berlin Airlift
Reconstruction
World War I
21. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
21st Amendment
Segregation
22. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Warren G. Harding
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Miranda v. Arizona
19thAmendment
23. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
2nd Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
Clarence Darrow
Segregation
24. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Island hopping
Bill of Rights
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Baby Boom
25. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Elvis Presley
George Wallace
17th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
26. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Bay of Pigs
Trench Warfare
Dwight D. Eisenhower
court packing
27. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Red Scare
Free Enterprise Economy
Nikita Kruschev
Spanish - American War
28. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Checks and Balances
George Wallace
George Washington
Fourteen Points
29. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Samuel Adams
FDIC
U.S.S. Maine
Henry Ford
30. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Elvis Presley
Ronald Reagan
Malcolm X
Gloria Steinem
31. No unlawful search and seizure.
17th Amendment
4th Amendment
Fidel Castro
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32. Founding father - politician - scientist
Jacob Riis
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Benjamin Franklin
John Scopes
33. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Civil War
Immigration
Medger Evers
Laissez Faire
34. No quartering of troops during peace time
Emancipation Proclamation
Samuel Adams
3rd Amendment
Hoovervilles
35. Rights reserved to the people.
17th Amendment
9th Amendment
Normandy
Jacob Riis
36. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Industrialization
The Rosenberg's
Jonas Salk
Benjamin Franklin
37. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Harry S. Truman
The Jazz Age
Columbian Exchange
Baker v. Carr
38. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Urbanization
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Federalism
League of Nations
39. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Gloria Steinem
Containment
Political machines
Civil War
40. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
15th Amendment
World War I
Upton Sinclair
41. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Charles Lindbergh
WPA
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
42. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Berlin Wall
Bracero Program
Harry S. Truman
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
43. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Benjamin Franklin
Urbanization
Domino Theory
Great Society
44. Right to bear arms
George Wallace
Bill of Rights
2nd Amendment
Jacob Riis
45. Abolished slavery
Federalist Papers
Civil War
Teapot Dome Scandal
13th Amendment
46. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Henry Ford
William 'Boss' Tweed
Pearl Harbor
Truman Doctrine (1947)
47. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
U-2 Incident
GI Bill
Bill of Rights
Muckrakers
48. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
SEC
Treaty of Versailles
Fourteen Points
The Jazz Age
49. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Upton Sinclair
The Harlem Renaissance
Jonas Salk
50. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
SEC
Flappers
Teapot Dome Scandal
Social Darwinism
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