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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. No quartering of troops during peace time
Political machines
3rd Amendment
Bill of Rights
Baker v. Carr
2. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
John Scopes
Homestead Act
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Manifest Destiny
3. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Reconstruction
Great Society
Fidel Castro
4. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Domino Theory
The Jazz Age
Industrialization
Reynolds v. Sims
5. The right to a fast and public trial.
15th Amendment
FDIC
6th Amendment
2nd Amendment
6. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Populism
Separation of Powers
Battle of Wounded Knee
Federalist Papers
7. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dawes Act
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sacco and Vanzetti
8. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Command Economy
Upton Sinclair
Columbian Exchange
Battle of Midway
9. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Homestead Act
Marshall Plan (1948)
The Little Rock Nine
U-2 Incident
10. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Calvin Coolidge
Federalist Papers
14th Amendment
Fourteen Points
11. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Spanish - American War
Jacob Riis
Separation of Powers
Jim Crow laws
12. The direct election of US Senators.
The Harlem Renaissance
Containment
Ronald Reagan
17th Amendment
13. Sets a term limit for the President
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nullification Crisis
22nd Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
14. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
GI Bill
Lyndon B. Johnson
Political machines
Jacob Riis
15. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Free Enterprise Economy
Fidel Castro
Charles Lindbergh
Normandy
16. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Bay of Pigs
U.S.S. Maine
Medger Evers
Henry Ford
17. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
John J. Pershing
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Prohibition
18. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Neil Armstrong
9th Amendment
The Holocaust
Henry Ford
19. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
2nd Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Susan B. Anthony
Populism
20. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Theodore Roosevelt
The Articles of Confederation
3rd Amendment
NATO (1959)
21. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Booker T. Washington
Island hopping
Fourteen Points
Shirley Chisholm
22. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Laissez Faire
Bobby Kennedy
Homestead Act
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
23. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
16th Amendment
Social Darwinism
8th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
24. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
The Baby Boom
King George III
Douglas MacArthur
Treaty of Versailles
25. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
The Baby Boom
Urbanization
Containment
Theodore Roosevelt
26. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Hoovervilles
John J. Pershing
World War II
27. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Federalism
Laissez Faire
Berlin Wall
28. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
Immigration
Jim Crow laws
Pearl Harbor
29. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
U.S.S. Maine
1st Amendment
World War II
Brown v. Board of Education
30. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
WPA
Tenements
The War on Poverty
31. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Tenements
Great Society
The Little Rock Nine
Dust Bowl
32. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
William 'Boss' Tweed
U.S.S. Maine
Populism
Teapot Dome Scandal
33. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
WPA
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Berlin Wall
Escobedo v. Illinois
34. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
NATO (1959)
18th Amendment
Double V Campaign
35. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Dust Bowl
The War on Poverty
Bill of Rights
Containment
36. Established the federal income tax.
Gloria Steinem
Social Darwinism
Clarence Darrow
16th Amendment
37. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Spanish - American War
8th Amendment
GI Bill
Social Darwinism
38. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Brown v. Board of Education
Immigration
17th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
39. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Hoovervilles
Omar Bradley
FDIC
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
40. Trial by jury.
WPA
7th Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Flappers
41. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Douglas MacArthur
Malcolm X
The Scopes Trial
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
42. Separation by race.
Segregation
NATO (1959)
Samuel Adams
Alfred Thayer Mahan
43. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Richard M. Nixon
Miranda v. Arizona
John Scopes
44. The right to vote for women.
Joe McCarthy
Populism
The Jazz Age
19thAmendment
45. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Imperialism
Command Economy
Richard M. Nixon
46. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Clarence Darrow
Samuel Adams
26th Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
47. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Gideon v. Wainwright
22nd Amendment
Containment
Watergate
48. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Industrialization
Alfred Thayer Mahan
15th Amendment
The War on Poverty
49. 1914 - 1918
24th Amendment
World War I
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Reynolds v. Sims
50. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The War on Poverty
Homestead Act
Viet Nam
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
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