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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Gloria Steinem
Douglas MacArthur
Alfred Thayer Mahan
10th Amendment
2. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Domino Theory
Booker T. Washington
George Washington
3. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Flappers
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Muckrakers
The Jazz Age
4. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
The New Deal
Separation of Powers
Abraham Lincoln
Upton Sinclair
5. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
The Holocaust
Omar Bradley
Bobby Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
6. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Clarence Darrow
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Martin Luther King Jr
George Washington
7. Early rock n ' roll performer
WPA
Great Compromise
Elvis Presley
Upton Sinclair
8. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Woodrow Wilson
7th Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
Miranda v. Arizona
9. 1914 - 1918
Industrialization
FDIC
Separation of Powers
World War I
10. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Yellow Journalism
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Homestead Act
11. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Miranda v. Arizona
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Populism
The Little Rock Nine
12. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
Richard M. Nixon
Red Scare
World War II
13. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
The Holocaust
Bill of Rights
1st Amendment
Elvis Presley
14. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
Segregation
Barbed wire
The Scopes Trial
15. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Harlem Renaissance
WPA
6th Amendment
16. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Viet Nam
Samuel Adams
Elvis Presley
17. American painter from 1920's
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18. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Henry Ford
Dawes Act
Flappers
5th Amendment
19. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
George Wallace
4th Amendment
10th Amendment
20. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Double V Campaign
Charles Lindbergh
FDIC
William Jennings Bryan
21. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Spanish - American War
Normandy
16th Amendment
3rd Amendment
22. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
The Articles of Confederation
GI Bill
WPA
Jacob Riis
23. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
Bill of Rights
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Calvin Coolidge
24. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Command Economy
Susan B. Anthony
Pearl Harbor
13th Amendment
25. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Benjamin Franklin
Transcontinental railroad
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The War on Poverty
26. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Rough Riders
Industrialization
NATO (1959)
Jacob Riis
27. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Brown v. Board of Education
Susan B. Anthony
Richard M. Nixon
Social Darwinism
28. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Homestead Act
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Georgia O'Keefe
Spanish - American War
29. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Political machines
George Wallace
Reconstruction
30. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
King George III
Tenements
Laissez Faire
31. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Booker T. Washington
Treaty of Versailles
10th Amendment
Medger Evers
32. Founding father - politician - scientist
Shirley Chisholm
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Reconstruction
33. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
U.S.S. Maine
Thomas Jefferson
Bobby Kennedy
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
34. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Berlin Airlift
Emancipation Proclamation
The Scopes Trial
2nd Amendment
35. Separation by race.
The Scopes Trial
Segregation
King George III
9th Amendment
36. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
4th Amendment
Sputnik
Teapot Dome Scandal
Marshall Plan (1948)
37. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
7th Amendment
John Scopes
Brown v. Board of Education
Booker T. Washington
38. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
George Washington
The Harlem Renaissance
Jacob Riis
Elvis Presley
39. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Berlin Airlift
Rosa Parks
The Articles of Confederation
The Jazz Age
40. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
The Scopes Trial
Hoovervilles
Laissez Faire
Pearl Harbor
41. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Gloria Steinem
10th Amendment
Populism
Marshall Plan (1948)
42. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
Georgia O'Keefe
14th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
43. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Theodore Roosevelt
10th Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
Urbanization
44. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
The Great Migration
9th Amendment
45. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Escobedo v. Illinois
21st Amendment
26th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
46. No quartering of troops during peace time
Dawes Act
Gloria Steinem
3rd Amendment
21st Amendment
47. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
The Great Migration
Henry Ford
The Scopes Trial
Jim Crow laws
48. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
6th Amendment
Fourteen Points
Dwight D. Eisenhower
49. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
Pearl Harbor
Fidel Castro
FDIC
50. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
The Holocaust
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sputnik