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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Reynolds v. Sims
The Holocaust
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22nd Amendment
2. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
Rough Riders
Clarence Darrow
The Jazz Age
3. Founding father - politician - scientist
William 'Boss' Tweed
William Jennings Bryan
U-2 Incident
Benjamin Franklin
4. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Samuel Adams
14th Amendment
22nd Amendment
The Scopes Trial
5. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
22nd Amendment
Korean War
Harry S. Truman
Immigration
6. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Richard M. Nixon
Joe McCarthy
William Jennings Bryan
Civil War
7. Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
William H. Taft
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Theodore Roosevelt
8. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Free Enterprise Economy
The Scopes Trial
Korean War
16th Amendment
9. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
League of Nations
WEB DuBois
Joe McCarthy
10. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Jonas Salk
The Baby Boom
World War II
5th Amendment
11. First astronaut to land on the moon.
King George III
Dust Bowl
Neil Armstrong
Henry Ford
12. President of the US during the Civil War.
Reconstruction
Manifest Destiny
Abraham Lincoln
FDIC
13. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Andrew Carnegie
Elvis Presley
Teapot Dome Scandal
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
14. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
U.S.S. Maine
Cesar Chavez
The Holocaust
FDIC
15. President during Roaring 20's
Emancipation Proclamation
Trench Warfare
Omar Bradley
Calvin Coolidge
16. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
World War I
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Spanish - American War
9th Amendment
17. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Prohibition
Battle of Midway
Brown v. Board of Education
18. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
Sputnik
Rosa Parks
Federalist Papers
19. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Georgia O'Keefe
Fourteen Points
3rd Amendment
Social Darwinism
20. Powers reserved to the states
19thAmendment
Joe McCarthy
Federalism
10th Amendment
21. The right to vote for women.
Checks and Balances
Containment
19thAmendment
Sacco and Vanzetti
22. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
24th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Manifest Destiny
6th Amendment
23. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Checks and Balances
Federalism
5th Amendment
Urbanization
24. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Treaty of Versailles
Spanish - American War
Richard M. Nixon
Laissez Faire
25. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Columbian Exchange
League of Nations
Prohibition
Civil War
26. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Benjamin Franklin
Berlin Wall
Flappers
Yellow Journalism
27. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
6th Amendment
Immigration
The Rosenberg's
Baker v. Carr
28. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Holocaust
4th Amendment
The War on Poverty
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
29. No quartering of troops during peace time
The Harlem Renaissance
3rd Amendment
Laissez Faire
Populism
30. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Medger Evers
Great Compromise
31. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
13th Amendment
Sputnik
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
8th Amendment
32. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Free Enterprise Economy
Cattle Drives
Thomas Paine
6th Amendment
33. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Prohibition
Neil Armstrong
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Red Scare
34. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Federalist Papers
Urbanization
Clarence Darrow
Civil War
35. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Viet Nam
Cesar Chavez
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Berlin Airlift
36. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
9th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
14th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
37. United Farm Workers activist
8th Amendment
Imperialism
John F. Kennedy
Cesar Chavez
38. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
William Jennings Bryan
George Wallace
Viet Nam
39. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Transcontinental railroad
The Baby Boom
Checks and Balances
Yellow Journalism
40. 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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41. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Georgia O'Keefe
Shirley Chisholm
Immigration
3rd Amendment
42. Separation by race.
Segregation
Malcolm X
Thomas Paine
Richard M. Nixon
43. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Separation of Powers
Charles Lindbergh
18th Amendment
44. The direct election of US Senators.
Transcontinental railroad
Medger Evers
17th Amendment
Jacob Riis
45. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Cuban Missile Crisis
Escobedo v. Illinois
The Harlem Renaissance
Benjamin Franklin
46. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Medger Evers
Jacob Riis
George Wallace
Berlin Wall
47. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Battle of Wounded Knee
U-2 Incident
The Rosenberg's
48. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
16th Amendment
Red Scare
Columbian Exchange
49. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Yellow Journalism
Medger Evers
Jim Crow laws
50. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Henry Ford
Watergate
The Articles of Confederation
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