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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Urbanization
Dust Bowl
Booker T. Washington
FDIC
2. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Douglas MacArthur
Woodrow Wilson
Prohibition
John F. Kennedy
3. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Red Scare
Great Compromise
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Federalism
4. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Treaty of Versailles
Imperialism
Hoovervilles
Battle of Midway
5. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Berlin Airlift
Douglas MacArthur
18th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
6. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Samuel Adams
Fidel Castro
26th Amendment
5th Amendment
7. Sets a term limit for the President
Battle of Wounded Knee
15th Amendment
22nd Amendment
Bill of Rights
8. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Medger Evers
14th Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Bracero Program
9. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Domino Theory
Rough Riders
Containment
Marshall Plan (1948)
10. Communist leader of Cuba.
Barbed wire
Fidel Castro
Great Society
Korean War
11. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Henry Ford
Clarence Darrow
court packing
12. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Fourteen Points
Jacob Riis
League of Nations
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
13. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
Federalism
21st Amendment
7th Amendment
14. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Malcolm X
Omar Bradley
Harry S. Truman
John J. Pershing
15. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barbed wire
Ronald Reagan
Yellow Journalism
16. 1939 - 1945
Martin Luther King Jr
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Nikita Kruschev
World War II
17. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Baby Boom
The New Deal
World War II
Industrialization
18. Abolished slavery
Gideon v. Wainwright
Domino Theory
13th Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
19. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
Andrew Carnegie
Warren G. Harding
19thAmendment
20. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
Checks and Balances
Benjamin Franklin
Civil War
21. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Medger Evers
Omar Bradley
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Paine
22. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
World War I
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dawes Act
Federalist Papers
23. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
The War on Poverty
Gloria Steinem
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
24. Powers reserved to the states
Fidel Castro
22nd Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
10th Amendment
25. 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
World War I
King George III
Omar Bradley
26. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Segregation
Populism
Henry Ford
Treaty of Versailles
27. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Dust Bowl
14th Amendment
Checks and Balances
Red Scare
28. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Gideon v. Wainwright
Civil War
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
29. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Populism
Barbed wire
Columbian Exchange
Reconstruction
30. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Joe McCarthy
Benjamin Franklin
William Jennings Bryan
31. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Great Migration
17th Amendment
Rough Riders
32. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Brown v. Board of Education
Social Darwinism
Command Economy
Industrialization
33. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Pearl Harbor
Marshall Plan (1948)
The War on Poverty
34. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
13th Amendment
Yellow Journalism
NATO (1959)
Georgia O'Keefe
35. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
WEB DuBois
WPA
Watergate
Upton Sinclair
36. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
6th Amendment
Dawes Act
Transcontinental railroad
Calvin Coolidge
37. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Malcolm X
SEC
John Scopes
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
38. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Social Darwinism
Woodrow Wilson
George Washington
Tenements
39. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
10th Amendment
Checks and Balances
7th Amendment
13th Amendment
40. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
NATO (1959)
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Prohibition
41. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
8th Amendment
Imperialism
Baker v. Carr
Rosa Parks
42. Invented the vaccine for polio
The Little Rock Nine
The Rosenberg's
Berlin Wall
Jonas Salk
43. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
Korean War
7th Amendment
Rosa Parks
44. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
Cesar Chavez
Sacco and Vanzetti
John F. Kennedy
45. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Joe McCarthy
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Hoovervilles
Nullification Crisis
46. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Rough Riders
8th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
47. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Viet Nam
Battle of Wounded Knee
Nullification Crisis
Abraham Lincoln
48. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Fourteen Points
Reconstruction
5th Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
49. Trial by jury.
Cesar Chavez
Theodore Roosevelt
7th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
50. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
Bill of Rights
The Great Migration
Reconstruction