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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
George Wallace
Red Scare
Gloria Steinem
Cesar Chavez
2. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
League of Nations
Escobedo v. Illinois
WEB DuBois
Dwight D. Eisenhower
3. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Benjamin Franklin
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Baby Boom
Separation of Powers
4. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Populism
Charles Lindbergh
The War on Poverty
26th Amendment
5. Powers reserved to the states
Dwight D. Eisenhower
10th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
Separation of Powers
6. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
Gideon v. Wainwright
Ronald Reagan
Martin Luther King Jr
7. 1914 - 1918
26th Amendment
World War I
Miranda v. Arizona
Reconstruction
8. President 1961-63
Prohibition
The Great Migration
Command Economy
John F. Kennedy
9. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Industrialization
Calvin Coolidge
Gloria Steinem
Warren G. Harding
10. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Scopes Trial
10th Amendment
Douglas MacArthur
Cesar Chavez
11. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Cattle Drives
Command Economy
Transcontinental railroad
Abraham Lincoln
12. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Columbian Exchange
22nd Amendment
Neil Armstrong
Command Economy
13. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Bracero Program
Clarence Darrow
Federalism
Urbanization
14. 1860 - 1865
World War II
Miranda v. Arizona
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Civil War
15. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Teapot Dome Scandal
NATO (1959)
Great Society
Plessy v. Ferguson
16. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Checks and Balances
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
William 'Boss' Tweed
Henry Ford
17. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
GI Bill
Andrew Carnegie
Hoovervilles
18. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
15th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
17th Amendment
Island hopping
19. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Jacob Riis
Woodrow Wilson
Samuel Adams
Separation of Powers
20. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
Gloria Steinem
King George III
Miranda v. Arizona
21. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
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22. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Transcontinental railroad
Command Economy
Cattle Drives
Truman Doctrine (1947)
23. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Baker v. Carr
Checks and Balances
Social Darwinism
George Washington
24. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Bill of Rights
Korean War
14th Amendment
25. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
The Scopes Trial
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
Battle of Midway
26. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bobby Kennedy
Clarence Darrow
Marshall Plan (1948)
27. Abolished slavery
Tenements
Island hopping
Omar Bradley
13th Amendment
28. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Benjamin Franklin
Theodore Roosevelt
15th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
29. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
Martin Luther King Jr
Nikita Kruschev
GI Bill
30. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Flappers
Immigration
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Reynolds v. Sims
31. First form of government established by the 13 states.
17th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
Domino Theory
The Articles of Confederation
32. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Urbanization
24th Amendment
Prohibition
Baker v. Carr
33. Alternate term for 1920's.
Joe McCarthy
World War I
Barbed wire
The Jazz Age
34. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
William H. Taft
Sacco and Vanzetti
Charles Lindbergh
Berlin Wall
35. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Thomas Jefferson
Booker T. Washington
The New Deal
The Articles of Confederation
36. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Federalist Papers
Gloria Steinem
Nullification Crisis
37. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Theodore Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Flappers
Berlin Wall
38. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
The Rosenberg's
Homestead Act
GI Bill
John Scopes
39. The direct election of US Senators.
Double V Campaign
Transcontinental railroad
Viet Nam
17th Amendment
40. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Reynolds v. Sims
Yellow Journalism
Muckrakers
7th Amendment
41. President 1980-88.
3rd Amendment
Samuel Adams
Ronald Reagan
Henry Ford
42. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
U-2 Incident
Theodore Roosevelt
6th Amendment
1st Amendment
43. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Theodore Roosevelt
10th Amendment
Imperialism
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
44. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
The New Deal
18th Amendment
NATO (1959)
Theodore Roosevelt
45. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Andrew Carnegie
Rosa Parks
Double V Campaign
Korean War
46. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Domino Theory
Andrew Carnegie
The Great Migration
Gideon v. Wainwright
47. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Hoovervilles
1st Amendment
Pearl Harbor
William 'Boss' Tweed
48. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Nullification Crisis
Teapot Dome Scandal
GI Bill
Watergate
49. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Andrew Carnegie
Command Economy
Joe McCarthy
The Harlem Renaissance
50. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
The Little Rock Nine
14th Amendment
Imperialism
Malcolm X
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