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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Reynolds v. Sims
court packing
Battle of Midway
10th Amendment
2. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Barbed wire
Richard M. Nixon
Elvis Presley
4th Amendment
3. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Hoovervilles
Bracero Program
Flappers
Sputnik
4. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Miranda v. Arizona
GI Bill
U.S.S. Maine
Georgia O'Keefe
5. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Scopes Trial
Flappers
William H. Taft
2nd Amendment
6. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Command Economy
The New Deal
5th Amendment
Malcolm X
7. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
26th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
21st Amendment
Jim Crow laws
8. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
World War I
15th Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
William Jennings Bryan
9. Trial by jury.
Bobby Kennedy
7th Amendment
Imperialism
Gloria Steinem
10. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
14th Amendment
Cattle Drives
2nd Amendment
11. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Separation of Powers
Douglas MacArthur
Gloria Steinem
6th Amendment
12. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
WEB DuBois
Civil War
John J. Pershing
Shirley Chisholm
13. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Susan B. Anthony
Thomas Jefferson
Bay of Pigs
The Holocaust
14. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Command Economy
Sputnik
5th Amendment
WEB DuBois
15. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Muckrakers
Miranda v. Arizona
Manifest Destiny
WPA
16. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Trench Warfare
Barbed wire
Battle of Midway
17. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Charles Lindbergh
9th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Barbed wire
18. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Flappers
Charles Lindbergh
Pearl Harbor
Brown v. Board of Education
19. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Malcolm X
10th Amendment
Clarence Darrow
20. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
Charles Lindbergh
Flappers
Georgia O'Keefe
21. The prohibition of alcohol.
Miranda v. Arizona
Thomas Jefferson
18th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
22. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
Urbanization
The Jazz Age
Emancipation Proclamation
23. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Great Migration
court packing
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Domino Theory
24. 1914 - 1918
World War I
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Fidel Castro
Malcolm X
25. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Woodrow Wilson
The Rosenberg's
Trench Warfare
Tenements
26. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Island hopping
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Susan B. Anthony
27. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
WEB DuBois
Clarence Darrow
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Fourteen Points
28. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Elvis Presley
Homestead Act
U-2 Incident
Normandy
29. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Joe McCarthy
Social Darwinism
Federalism
22nd Amendment
30. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Georgia O'Keefe
NATO (1959)
The Jazz Age
31. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
John J. Pershing
Upton Sinclair
SEC
Miranda v. Arizona
32. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
6th Amendment
2nd Amendment
Double V Campaign
Susan B. Anthony
33. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Jonas Salk
Federalism
3rd Amendment
34. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
Normandy
Warren G. Harding
World War II
35. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Nullification Crisis
19thAmendment
Upton Sinclair
Double V Campaign
36. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Emancipation Proclamation
World War I
The Little Rock Nine
Federalism
37. No quartering of troops during peace time
Pearl Harbor
3rd Amendment
7th Amendment
Korean War
38. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
Watergate
WEB DuBois
Yellow Journalism
39. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Miranda v. Arizona
Island hopping
William H. Taft
40. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Jim Crow laws
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Henry Ford
41. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Treaty of Versailles
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
13th Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
42. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Columbian Exchange
U.S.S. Maine
Susan B. Anthony
Nullification Crisis
43. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Fourteen Points
Prohibition
Bill of Rights
U-2 Incident
44. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
1st Amendment
Laissez Faire
Dawes Act
26th Amendment
45. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Bay of Pigs
Prohibition
The Little Rock Nine
The Harlem Renaissance
46. Established the federal income tax.
Warren G. Harding
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Medger Evers
16th Amendment
47. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Articles of Confederation
Jim Crow laws
Urbanization
Fourteen Points
48. The right to a fast and public trial.
Sacco and Vanzetti
26th Amendment
6th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
49. American painter from 1920's
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50. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
John Scopes
1st Amendment
Pearl Harbor
Martin Luther King Jr