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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Columbian Exchange
Berlin Airlift
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The New Deal
2. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Sputnik
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Cesar Chavez
Great Society
3. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
10th Amendment
Checks and Balances
Jacob Riis
14th Amendment
4. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Alfred Thayer Mahan
22nd Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
5. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Medger Evers
Battle of Midway
Pearl Harbor
Rosa Parks
6. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Federalism
Reconstruction
6th Amendment
Marshall Plan (1948)
7. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Cattle Drives
William 'Boss' Tweed
Escobedo v. Illinois
Federalism
8. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Benjamin Franklin
The Harlem Renaissance
Muckrakers
Martin Luther King Jr
9. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Charles Lindbergh
Martin Luther King Jr
Gideon v. Wainwright
Susan B. Anthony
10. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Richard M. Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Rough Riders
Brown v. Board of Education
11. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Homestead Act
Prohibition
Cattle Drives
Cuban Missile Crisis
12. No unlawful search and seizure.
Containment
Shirley Chisholm
Fidel Castro
4th Amendment
13. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Sputnik
William Jennings Bryan
U-2 Incident
The Harlem Renaissance
14. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
The Little Rock Nine
Island hopping
Separation of Powers
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
15. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Gloria Steinem
Command Economy
Federalist Papers
Thomas Jefferson
16. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
World War I
6th Amendment
court packing
Checks and Balances
17. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Neil Armstrong
Theodore Roosevelt
Rosa Parks
NATO (1959)
18. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Baker v. Carr
Columbian Exchange
League of Nations
Abraham Lincoln
19. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
7th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
World War I
20. New York political machine boss.
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21. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
15th Amendment
Nullification Crisis
Prohibition
13th Amendment
22. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
The Little Rock Nine
Muckrakers
14th Amendment
19thAmendment
23. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
The Little Rock Nine
Fourteen Points
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Barbed wire
24. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
SEC
Manifest Destiny
Laissez Faire
Homestead Act
25. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Berlin Airlift
World War II
Tenements
26. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Escobedo v. Illinois
Korean War
14th Amendment
Social Darwinism
27. The prohibition of alcohol.
Medger Evers
Cesar Chavez
18th Amendment
Fidel Castro
28. President 1961-63
Columbian Exchange
Federalist Papers
Trench Warfare
John F. Kennedy
29. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
George Washington
18th Amendment
Domino Theory
3rd Amendment
30. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Rough Riders
Imperialism
Bill of Rights
Spanish - American War
31. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Abraham Lincoln
Immigration
Federalist Papers
Tenements
32. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Battle of Midway
Transcontinental railroad
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
3rd Amendment
33. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
court packing
The Baby Boom
George Wallace
Tenements
34. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Containment
Immigration
Island hopping
35. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Federalist Papers
Federalism
Escobedo v. Illinois
Clarence Darrow
36. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Clarence Darrow
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Malcolm X
37. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Rough Riders
17th Amendment
William H. Taft
U.S.S. Maine
38. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Viet Nam
Omar Bradley
26th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
39. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Malcolm X
SEC
Rosa Parks
Charles Lindbergh
40. 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
Jacob Riis
Federalist Papers
13th Amendment
41. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Richard M. Nixon
William Jennings Bryan
court packing
Double V Campaign
42. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Segregation
Thomas Jefferson
Hoovervilles
Trench Warfare
43. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Battle of Midway
Georgia O'Keefe
Bobby Kennedy
44. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
1st Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
John Scopes
24th Amendment
45. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Segregation
6th Amendment
Bill of Rights
46. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Berlin Airlift
The Rosenberg's
William H. Taft
The Holocaust
47. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
Island hopping
John F. Kennedy
Marshall Plan (1948)
48. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Nullification Crisis
Benjamin Franklin
Miranda v. Arizona
Ronald Reagan
49. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Political machines
Imperialism
19thAmendment
Booker T. Washington
50. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Flappers
Warren G. Harding
George Wallace
19thAmendment