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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Baker v. Carr
Yellow Journalism
Alfred Thayer Mahan
6th Amendment
2. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Populism
Nikita Kruschev
Double V Campaign
Samuel Adams
3. The direct election of US Senators.
Civil War
The War on Poverty
Dawes Act
17th Amendment
4. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Homestead Act
Upton Sinclair
Georgia O'Keefe
Berlin Airlift
5. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
GI Bill
16th Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
Bobby Kennedy
6. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Tenements
7th Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
7. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
5th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
George Wallace
8. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Manifest Destiny
John J. Pershing
Omar Bradley
George Wallace
9. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Plessy v. Ferguson
Calvin Coolidge
The Little Rock Nine
10. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Scopes Trial
John Scopes
Sacco and Vanzetti
U.S.S. Maine
11. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Susan B. Anthony
8th Amendment
Watergate
John Scopes
12. Founding father - politician - scientist
Muckrakers
Benjamin Franklin
Prohibition
Escobedo v. Illinois
13. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Treaty of Versailles
Ronald Reagan
Jonas Salk
3rd Amendment
14. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
Shirley Chisholm
Jonas Salk
Segregation
15. President 1963-68
Lyndon B. Johnson
Command Economy
Social Darwinism
Manifest Destiny
16. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Sputnik
Theodore Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Escobedo v. Illinois
17. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
Fourteen Points
Dust Bowl
John F. Kennedy
18. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
Tenements
Neil Armstrong
6th Amendment
19. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Omar Bradley
26th Amendment
18th Amendment
Pearl Harbor
20. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Segregation
Richard M. Nixon
Nullification Crisis
Dwight D. Eisenhower
21. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Henry Ford
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Political machines
Hoovervilles
22. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Laissez Faire
Samuel Adams
Yellow Journalism
23. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Harry S. Truman
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Imperialism
Benjamin Franklin
24. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Booker T. Washington
Warren G. Harding
17th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
25. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
26th Amendment
Manifest Destiny
Reconstruction
26. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Rosa Parks
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jonas Salk
27. Early rock n ' roll performer
Martin Luther King Jr
Bay of Pigs
Elvis Presley
21st Amendment
28. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Populism
George Washington
Georgia O'Keefe
Spanish - American War
29. Abolished slavery
Great Compromise
13th Amendment
U.S.S. Maine
18th Amendment
30. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Nullification Crisis
Shirley Chisholm
Rough Riders
Douglas MacArthur
31. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
John F. Kennedy
22nd Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Korean War
32. Powers reserved to the states
13th Amendment
Sputnik
10th Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
33. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
The New Deal
Abraham Lincoln
Free Enterprise Economy
Gideon v. Wainwright
34. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
Richard M. Nixon
The Little Rock Nine
Social Darwinism
35. President 1961-63
Truman Doctrine (1947)
FDIC
Containment
John F. Kennedy
36. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
22nd Amendment
Civil War
World War II
Cuban Missile Crisis
37. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Normandy
Marshall Plan (1948)
Columbian Exchange
Urbanization
38. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Rosa Parks
The Holocaust
Malcolm X
Barbed wire
39. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Susan B. Anthony
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Woodrow Wilson
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40. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Immigration
William H. Taft
Tenements
21st Amendment
41. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Yellow Journalism
Urbanization
Treaty of Versailles
Sacco and Vanzetti
42. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Separation of Powers
Double V Campaign
Samuel Adams
Woodrow Wilson
43. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
The Holocaust
Henry Ford
The Scopes Trial
Laissez Faire
44. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Federalism
Battle of Wounded Knee
45. President of the US during the Civil War.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Watergate
Abraham Lincoln
Reconstruction
46. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Viet Nam
Civil War
Upton Sinclair
Double V Campaign
47. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Federalist Papers
NATO (1959)
Great Compromise
24th Amendment
48. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Thomas Jefferson
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The New Deal
24th Amendment
49. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
John J. Pershing
Korean War
Federalist Papers
26th Amendment
50. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Gloria Steinem
Medger Evers
7th Amendment
Imperialism