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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
6th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
WEB DuBois
William H. Taft
2. Abolished slavery
Rough Riders
13th Amendment
John J. Pershing
Fidel Castro
3. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
18th Amendment
Jonas Salk
Yellow Journalism
Checks and Balances
4. 1860 - 1865
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Jim Crow laws
Civil War
14th Amendment
5. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
18th Amendment
Separation of Powers
Red Scare
Elvis Presley
6. Alternate term for 1920's.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Jazz Age
The New Deal
Free Enterprise Economy
7. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
William H. Taft
court packing
Civil War
Dust Bowl
8. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
14th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
5th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
9. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
The Rosenberg's
John J. Pershing
Warren G. Harding
Escobedo v. Illinois
10. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
The Harlem Renaissance
Spanish - American War
5th Amendment
FDIC
11. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
1st Amendment
Henry Ford
Rough Riders
Nikita Kruschev
12. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
The Scopes Trial
Charles Lindbergh
Warren G. Harding
Joe McCarthy
13. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Jacob Riis
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Bay of Pigs
Viet Nam
14. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Spanish - American War
Laissez Faire
Brown v. Board of Education
Federalism
15. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Warren G. Harding
Manifest Destiny
The Jazz Age
Dwight D. Eisenhower
16. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
17. No quartering of troops during peace time
World War I
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Island hopping
3rd Amendment
18. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Columbian Exchange
Red Scare
The Harlem Renaissance
Immigration
19. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
League of Nations
World War I
Shirley Chisholm
Separation of Powers
20. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Jacob Riis
SEC
Fidel Castro
Command Economy
21. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Brown v. Board of Education
Richard M. Nixon
Tenements
NATO (1959)
22. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Fourteen Points
Upton Sinclair
Joe McCarthy
Containment
23. Early rock n ' roll performer
WEB DuBois
Elvis Presley
Normandy
5th Amendment
24. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
24th Amendment
6th Amendment
Great Society
2nd Amendment
25. Rights reserved to the people.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Medger Evers
Elvis Presley
9th Amendment
26. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Douglas MacArthur
15th Amendment
Cesar Chavez
The Scopes Trial
27. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dawes Act
28. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
19thAmendment
Free Enterprise Economy
The Holocaust
Prohibition
29. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Nikita Kruschev
Upton Sinclair
Medger Evers
Treaty of Versailles
30. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Berlin Wall
The Great Migration
Free Enterprise Economy
Richard M. Nixon
31. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Watergate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Red Scare
32. The direct election of US Senators.
Trench Warfare
Hoovervilles
17th Amendment
Bracero Program
33. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Manifest Destiny
5th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bill of Rights
34. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
Escobedo v. Illinois
4th Amendment
Yellow Journalism
35. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Thomas Jefferson
WPA
Industrialization
Watergate
36. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
WEB DuBois
Pearl Harbor
Prohibition
Thomas Paine
37. 1914 - 1918
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Bobby Kennedy
Viet Nam
World War I
38. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Political machines
Tenements
Urbanization
Treaty of Versailles
39. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Berlin Wall
Clarence Darrow
22nd Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
40. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Immigration
George Wallace
16th Amendment
6th Amendment
41. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Sputnik
U-2 Incident
The Articles of Confederation
GI Bill
42. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
John F. Kennedy
Cesar Chavez
Neil Armstrong
43. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Populism
Douglas MacArthur
Federalist Papers
Reconstruction
44. New York political machine boss.
45. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Nullification Crisis
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Jefferson
24th Amendment
46. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Charles Lindbergh
Sacco and Vanzetti
Viet Nam
Fidel Castro
47. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Cesar Chavez
Trench Warfare
Marshall Plan (1948)
Bobby Kennedy
48. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
The Harlem Renaissance
World War II
Checks and Balances
18th Amendment
49. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Island hopping
Jacob Riis
William H. Taft
FDIC
50. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Fidel Castro
League of Nations
Thomas Jefferson
Populism