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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Malcolm X
The Little Rock Nine
Segregation
24th Amendment
2. The right to a fast and public trial.
Neil Armstrong
Segregation
6th Amendment
10th Amendment
3. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Tenements
Gideon v. Wainwright
Trench Warfare
22nd Amendment
4. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Social Darwinism
George Wallace
Jonas Salk
Teapot Dome Scandal
5. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Watergate
Booker T. Washington
Fidel Castro
6. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
Checks and Balances
Nikita Kruschev
Plessy v. Ferguson
7. Abolished slavery
Douglas MacArthur
13th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Containment
8. Established the federal income tax.
3rd Amendment
Fourteen Points
16th Amendment
George Wallace
9. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Plessy v. Ferguson
court packing
Manifest Destiny
10. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
19thAmendment
The New Deal
Douglas MacArthur
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
11. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Reconstruction
Imperialism
Upton Sinclair
Dawes Act
12. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Theodore Roosevelt
Barbed wire
Nullification Crisis
13. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
10th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
Federalism
Island hopping
14. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Separation of Powers
Dust Bowl
William H. Taft
Charles Lindbergh
15. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Yellow Journalism
Joe McCarthy
Warren G. Harding
Immigration
16. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Shirley Chisholm
George Wallace
Jim Crow laws
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
19thAmendment
Woodrow Wilson
Viet Nam
Domino Theory
18. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
The Holocaust
Warren G. Harding
Federalism
Double V Campaign
19. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jacob Riis
Berlin Airlift
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20. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Political machines
WPA
Containment
21. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Jacob Riis
Sacco and Vanzetti
John F. Kennedy
Gideon v. Wainwright
22. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Airlift
Battle of Wounded Knee
23. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
14th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Upton Sinclair
24. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Columbian Exchange
Manifest Destiny
Flappers
17th Amendment
25. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
17th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
Laissez Faire
Douglas MacArthur
26. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Civil War
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fourteen Points
Dust Bowl
27. New York political machine boss.
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28. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Brown v. Board of Education
Teapot Dome Scandal
16th Amendment
29. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Civil War
WPA
Richard M. Nixon
Battle of Midway
30. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
John J. Pershing
League of Nations
Viet Nam
Great Society
31. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Baker v. Carr
Clarence Darrow
Fourteen Points
Jacob Riis
32. No unlawful search and seizure.
William Jennings Bryan
Benjamin Franklin
The Scopes Trial
4th Amendment
33. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Federalist Papers
Marshall Plan (1948)
Great Society
King George III
34. Early rock n ' roll performer
Pearl Harbor
Elvis Presley
Treaty of Versailles
Rough Riders
35. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Normandy
Free Enterprise Economy
15th Amendment
The Great Migration
36. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Imperialism
John J. Pershing
21st Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
37. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Manifest Destiny
Marshall Plan (1948)
Neil Armstrong
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38. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
Great Society
FDIC
Bracero Program
39. 1939 - 1945
2nd Amendment
World War II
FDIC
Great Society
40. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
21st Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Nikita Kruschev
41. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Woodrow Wilson
The Jazz Age
GI Bill
Civil War
42. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Nikita Kruschev
Social Darwinism
The War on Poverty
Woodrow Wilson
43. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
The Holocaust
Thomas Paine
Social Darwinism
Command Economy
44. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
GI Bill
Gideon v. Wainwright
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Columbian Exchange
45. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Malcolm X
Laissez Faire
The Holocaust
George Washington
46. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Fourteen Points
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barbed wire
Teapot Dome Scandal
47. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Martin Luther King Jr
Escobedo v. Illinois
Bobby Kennedy
Laissez Faire
48. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Jim Crow laws
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
Georgia O'Keefe
49. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Pearl Harbor
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Laissez Faire
Theodore Roosevelt
50. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Woodrow Wilson
John F. Kennedy
League of Nations
Transcontinental railroad