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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Martin Luther King Jr
Gloria Steinem
Columbian Exchange
Dawes Act
2. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Immigration
Andrew Carnegie
Calvin Coolidge
Reconstruction
3. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The War on Poverty
Rough Riders
4. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Andrew Carnegie
Bracero Program
1st Amendment
5. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
WEB DuBois
William Jennings Bryan
The Great Migration
Containment
6. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
The Jazz Age
The Holocaust
13th Amendment
The Little Rock Nine
7. The right to a fast and public trial.
William Jennings Bryan
6th Amendment
The Holocaust
Sputnik
8. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
9th Amendment
Elvis Presley
Teapot Dome Scandal
9. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Battle of Midway
Battle of Wounded Knee
Henry Ford
Thomas Paine
10. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Prohibition
Lyndon B. Johnson
Warren G. Harding
Industrialization
11. Established the federal income tax.
John J. Pershing
17th Amendment
16th Amendment
King George III
12. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Jonas Salk
Dust Bowl
Battle of Midway
The Baby Boom
13. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Trench Warfare
Thomas Jefferson
Nikita Kruschev
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
14. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Free Enterprise Economy
George Washington
Great Compromise
Nullification Crisis
15. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Booker T. Washington
2nd Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
Marshall Plan (1948)
16. Separation by race.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
17th Amendment
Omar Bradley
Segregation
17. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Charles Lindbergh
Urbanization
15th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
18. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Industrialization
Manifest Destiny
Viet Nam
Jacob Riis
19. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
SEC
Imperialism
Segregation
20. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
5th Amendment
Homestead Act
Muckrakers
Clarence Darrow
21. Communist leader of Cuba.
Dawes Act
Laissez Faire
Teapot Dome Scandal
Fidel Castro
22. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Double V Campaign
Spanish - American War
Bracero Program
Nikita Kruschev
23. The direct election of US Senators.
Berlin Wall
Calvin Coolidge
Urbanization
17th Amendment
24. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Dawes Act
U.S.S. Maine
19thAmendment
Fourteen Points
25. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Berlin Wall
Marshall Plan (1948)
Columbian Exchange
Clarence Darrow
26. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
WEB DuBois
Teapot Dome Scandal
U-2 Incident
Command Economy
27. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
18th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
World War I
28. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Domino Theory
Red Scare
FDIC
Susan B. Anthony
29. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Bill of Rights
The Rosenberg's
Urbanization
Reconstruction
30. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Yellow Journalism
FDIC
Great Compromise
Hoovervilles
31. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Henry Ford
Upton Sinclair
Imperialism
Federalism
32. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Normandy
Joe McCarthy
33. New York political machine boss.
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34. 1939 - 1945
World War II
Harry S. Truman
Baker v. Carr
Command Economy
35. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Warren G. Harding
Berlin Wall
Lyndon B. Johnson
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
36. No unlawful search and seizure.
Treaty of Versailles
4th Amendment
NATO (1959)
Tenements
37. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Plessy v. Ferguson
8th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Henry Ford
38. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
22nd Amendment
Clarence Darrow
Command Economy
39. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Brown v. Board of Education
Immigration
Great Compromise
Spanish - American War
40. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Urbanization
9th Amendment
Domino Theory
William Jennings Bryan
41. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Social Darwinism
The Holocaust
Reynolds v. Sims
42. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
The Holocaust
Upton Sinclair
John Scopes
U.S.S. Maine
43. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
William H. Taft
Henry Ford
Korean War
Medger Evers
44. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
The New Deal
Georgia O'Keefe
Clarence Darrow
45. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Brown v. Board of Education
Warren G. Harding
Separation of Powers
Gideon v. Wainwright
46. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
George Washington
Barbed wire
Laissez Faire
47. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
Political machines
Segregation
Great Society
48. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Baker v. Carr
Ronald Reagan
Pearl Harbor
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
49. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Marshall Plan (1948)
WEB DuBois
24th Amendment
50. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
William Jennings Bryan
Battle of Midway
Tenements
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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