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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
18th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
U.S.S. Maine
Trench Warfare
2. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
Shirley Chisholm
King George III
Bay of Pigs
3. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
John Scopes
Barbed wire
court packing
Muckrakers
4. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cuban Missile Crisis
Brown v. Board of Education
Booker T. Washington
5. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Harry S. Truman
Baker v. Carr
William H. Taft
Richard M. Nixon
6. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Neil Armstrong
Thomas Paine
Segregation
League of Nations
7. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Baker v. Carr
Samuel Adams
William Jennings Bryan
FDIC
8. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Spanish - American War
Treaty of Versailles
Barbed wire
10th Amendment
9. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
The Articles of Confederation
The Holocaust
Bracero Program
22nd Amendment
10. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
The Harlem Renaissance
Gloria Steinem
Yellow Journalism
14th Amendment
11. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
The Harlem Renaissance
Berlin Airlift
14th Amendment
5th Amendment
12. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
King George III
John F. Kennedy
Susan B. Anthony
Treaty of Versailles
13. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Woodrow Wilson
Yellow Journalism
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Baby Boom
14. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
WEB DuBois
Pearl Harbor
Separation of Powers
19thAmendment
15. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Berlin Airlift
John Scopes
WPA
Manifest Destiny
16. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Red Scare
Jim Crow laws
Tenements
Great Society
17. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Jim Crow laws
Pearl Harbor
Cuban Missile Crisis
Susan B. Anthony
18. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Imperialism
The New Deal
Thomas Jefferson
Jacob Riis
19. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Joe McCarthy
Alfred Thayer Mahan
U.S.S. Maine
SEC
20. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
Clarence Darrow
The Scopes Trial
14th Amendment
21. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
League of Nations
Cattle Drives
Abraham Lincoln
22. Abolished the poll tax.
Imperialism
Urbanization
Battle of Wounded Knee
24th Amendment
23. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Command Economy
Free Enterprise Economy
Calvin Coolidge
24. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Transcontinental railroad
Ronald Reagan
Emancipation Proclamation
Baker v. Carr
25. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Sputnik
Lyndon B. Johnson
Gloria Steinem
Homestead Act
26. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
15th Amendment
Great Society
19thAmendment
Dust Bowl
27. The right to a fast and public trial.
Transcontinental railroad
6th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
Tenements
28. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Urbanization
5th Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
29. Established the federal income tax.
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
Viet Nam
Bay of Pigs
30. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Jim Crow laws
Reynolds v. Sims
Warren G. Harding
18th Amendment
31. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Warren G. Harding
Fourteen Points
Martin Luther King Jr
Columbian Exchange
32. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Prohibition
Martin Luther King Jr
18th Amendment
George Wallace
33. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Marshall Plan (1948)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Yellow Journalism
34. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Booker T. Washington
8th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
35. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
The Jazz Age
Korean War
Homestead Act
Jacob Riis
36. Power is shared between the states and national government.
3rd Amendment
Federalism
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
37. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
The Harlem Renaissance
GI Bill
Teapot Dome Scandal
Trench Warfare
38. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Reconstruction
17th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
39. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The War on Poverty
Imperialism
21st Amendment
40. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Trench Warfare
Domino Theory
Bobby Kennedy
Berlin Wall
41. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Calvin Coolidge
Prohibition
Battle of Midway
26th Amendment
42. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Abraham Lincoln
Teapot Dome Scandal
Susan B. Anthony
Bracero Program
43. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Samuel Adams
Prohibition
Baker v. Carr
Fourteen Points
44. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Immigration
WPA
Trench Warfare
19thAmendment
45. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Imperialism
The Baby Boom
Henry Ford
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
46. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
GI Bill
10th Amendment
Sputnik
Rosa Parks
47. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Separation of Powers
The Little Rock Nine
Spanish - American War
court packing
48. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
The Scopes Trial
Nikita Kruschev
Fidel Castro
Dawes Act
49. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
Watergate
Transcontinental railroad
Containment
50. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Benjamin Franklin
Immigration
18th Amendment
U.S.S. Maine