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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Marshall Plan (1948)
World War II
William 'Boss' Tweed
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
2. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Free Enterprise Economy
Populism
Gideon v. Wainwright
3. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Dust Bowl
The Harlem Renaissance
Domino Theory
4. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Hoovervilles
Neil Armstrong
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Charles Lindbergh
5. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Populism
Miranda v. Arizona
The Jazz Age
Shirley Chisholm
6. Trial by jury.
Great Society
Tenements
7th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
7. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
The Rosenberg's
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
NATO (1959)
Columbian Exchange
8. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
9th Amendment
Spanish - American War
Martin Luther King Jr
John F. Kennedy
9. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Shirley Chisholm
SEC
Booker T. Washington
Reynolds v. Sims
10. Communist leader of Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Manifest Destiny
WPA
15th Amendment
11. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Teapot Dome Scandal
Fidel Castro
19thAmendment
Dwight D. Eisenhower
12. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Benjamin Franklin
Immigration
Teapot Dome Scandal
Separation of Powers
13. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Plessy v. Ferguson
Populism
Susan B. Anthony
14. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Trench Warfare
3rd Amendment
Joe McCarthy
Viet Nam
15. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
9th Amendment
Homestead Act
John J. Pershing
16. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Ronald Reagan
16th Amendment
1st Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
17. President of the US during the Civil War.
17th Amendment
Tenements
The Little Rock Nine
Abraham Lincoln
18. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Laissez Faire
Douglas MacArthur
Reconstruction
Richard M. Nixon
19. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Neil Armstrong
26th Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe
Double V Campaign
20. President during Roaring 20's
Shirley Chisholm
Calvin Coolidge
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Battle of Midway
21. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Miranda v. Arizona
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
22. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Joe McCarthy
SEC
U.S.S. Maine
Cesar Chavez
23. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Baker v. Carr
Red Scare
WPA
26th Amendment
24. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Jonas Salk
The Baby Boom
Cattle Drives
Rough Riders
25. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Thomas Jefferson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Joe McCarthy
The Holocaust
26. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
The Baby Boom
Neil Armstrong
Civil War
27. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
The War on Poverty
Rough Riders
Reconstruction
Charles Lindbergh
28. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Georgia O'Keefe
Imperialism
Social Darwinism
Clarence Darrow
29. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Social Darwinism
Warren G. Harding
Domino Theory
Muckrakers
30. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Normandy
Korean War
Great Society
Viet Nam
31. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
16th Amendment
5th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
U.S.S. Maine
32. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
The Scopes Trial
Command Economy
Fourteen Points
Berlin Airlift
33. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
court packing
Benjamin Franklin
Brown v. Board of Education
Watergate
34. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
26th Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Joe McCarthy
Viet Nam
35. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Teapot Dome Scandal
Elvis Presley
Pearl Harbor
36. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Dust Bowl
Lyndon B. Johnson
Trench Warfare
Booker T. Washington
37. President 1961-63
John F. Kennedy
Watergate
Elvis Presley
22nd Amendment
38. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Nullification Crisis
League of Nations
3rd Amendment
17th Amendment
39. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
The War on Poverty
Samuel Adams
26th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
40. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
The Scopes Trial
Gloria Steinem
Federalist Papers
Rough Riders
41. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Rough Riders
Normandy
Thomas Jefferson
The Rosenberg's
42. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Bobby Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
NATO (1959)
10th Amendment
43. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Escobedo v. Illinois
GI Bill
Berlin Airlift
Henry Ford
44. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
John Scopes
Samuel Adams
The Baby Boom
Muckrakers
45. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Battle of Wounded Knee
The New Deal
U.S.S. Maine
World War II
46. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Trench Warfare
Free Enterprise Economy
Cattle Drives
Transcontinental railroad
47. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Little Rock Nine
Thomas Paine
Flappers
48. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Hoovervilles
Free Enterprise Economy
Industrialization
William H. Taft
49. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Bill of Rights
Booker T. Washington
Rough Riders
WEB DuBois
50. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Battle of Midway
Homestead Act
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Rosenberg's