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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
Richard M. Nixon
9th Amendment
Rough Riders
2. Movement of people into a country from another country.
The Holocaust
Shirley Chisholm
Immigration
Nullification Crisis
3. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Yellow Journalism
21st Amendment
Containment
Henry Ford
4. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Fourteen Points
Trench Warfare
Brown v. Board of Education
Transcontinental railroad
5. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Douglas MacArthur
Susan B. Anthony
6th Amendment
John J. Pershing
6. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
The Rosenberg's
Thomas Paine
Theodore Roosevelt
Teapot Dome Scandal
7. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Omar Bradley
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Calvin Coolidge
GI Bill
8. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Columbian Exchange
Federalist Papers
SEC
Political machines
9. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Yellow Journalism
1st Amendment
21st Amendment
The Baby Boom
10. President 1963-68
Lyndon B. Johnson
World War I
The Little Rock Nine
5th Amendment
11. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Medger Evers
6th Amendment
Bill of Rights
Rough Riders
12. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
Manifest Destiny
Island hopping
Jonas Salk
13. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Dust Bowl
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
League of Nations
14. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Berlin Airlift
18th Amendment
8th Amendment
6th Amendment
15. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
18th Amendment
Prohibition
Elvis Presley
Double V Campaign
16. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Homestead Act
Upton Sinclair
18th Amendment
World War II
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
Thomas Jefferson
SEC
Tenements
18. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
24th Amendment
Political machines
Double V Campaign
19. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Spanish - American War
Industrialization
Containment
20. President during Roaring 20's
1st Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
21st Amendment
Hoovervilles
21. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Brown v. Board of Education
Andrew Carnegie
Tenements
22. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Yellow Journalism
Sacco and Vanzetti
John Scopes
The Little Rock Nine
23. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
John F. Kennedy
17th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
24. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Domino Theory
2nd Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
Harry S. Truman
25. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
WPA
The Harlem Renaissance
Booker T. Washington
Gideon v. Wainwright
26. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Jacob Riis
Red Scare
Island hopping
27. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
5th Amendment
Laissez Faire
Homestead Act
28. 1939 - 1945
John Scopes
World War II
Normandy
Richard M. Nixon
29. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
1st Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Thomas Paine
Dwight D. Eisenhower
30. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Georgia O'Keefe
Bill of Rights
15th Amendment
18th Amendment
31. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
10th Amendment
Populism
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Douglas MacArthur
32. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Treaty of Versailles
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William H. Taft
14th Amendment
33. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Tenements
Great Compromise
Abraham Lincoln
34. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tenements
Cesar Chavez
Clarence Darrow
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
35. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
court packing
U-2 Incident
Emancipation Proclamation
Segregation
36. Founding father - politician - scientist
WEB DuBois
Gideon v. Wainwright
Ronald Reagan
Benjamin Franklin
37. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Georgia O'Keefe
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Harlem Renaissance
38. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Free Enterprise Economy
Teapot Dome Scandal
Bracero Program
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
39. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Rosa Parks
Populism
Trench Warfare
Andrew Carnegie
40. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Social Darwinism
King George III
The Scopes Trial
Brown v. Board of Education
41. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Domino Theory
Fidel Castro
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Treaty of Versailles
42. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Susan B. Anthony
Checks and Balances
William Jennings Bryan
Abraham Lincoln
43. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Populism
Omar Bradley
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
44. Established the federal income tax.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
24th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
16th Amendment
45. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
FDIC
Reconstruction
Pearl Harbor
The Jazz Age
46. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Neil Armstrong
16th Amendment
Fidel Castro
Brown v. Board of Education
47. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Jonas Salk
Homestead Act
Charles Lindbergh
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
48. Right to bear arms
Laissez Faire
GI Bill
Marshall Plan (1948)
2nd Amendment
49. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
FDIC
Checks and Balances
Double V Campaign
Muckrakers
50. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Watergate
Berlin Wall
Harry S. Truman