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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
George Washington
Harry S. Truman
Homestead Act
Cuban Missile Crisis
2. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Jacob Riis
16th Amendment
Nullification Crisis
Gideon v. Wainwright
3. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Joe McCarthy
Malcolm X
Jacob Riis
6th Amendment
4. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
Samuel Adams
World War I
Social Darwinism
5. Sets a term limit for the President
The Harlem Renaissance
22nd Amendment
World War I
7th Amendment
6. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Reynolds v. Sims
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Segregation
7. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Jacob Riis
Dust Bowl
William H. Taft
Federalism
8. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Transcontinental railroad
WEB DuBois
Dawes Act
Bracero Program
9. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Manifest Destiny
Containment
Marshall Plan (1948)
Benjamin Franklin
10. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
The Harlem Renaissance
Double V Campaign
Spanish - American War
Domino Theory
11. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Henry Ford
Susan B. Anthony
The Rosenberg's
Immigration
12. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Great Compromise
WEB DuBois
Omar Bradley
13. Communist leader of Cuba.
Upton Sinclair
Fidel Castro
Flappers
Benjamin Franklin
14. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Yellow Journalism
The Little Rock Nine
21st Amendment
15. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
19thAmendment
U.S.S. Maine
Battle of Wounded Knee
14th Amendment
16. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
8th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
The Harlem Renaissance
The Scopes Trial
17. Progressive president who served during WW I.
SEC
Richard M. Nixon
Dust Bowl
Woodrow Wilson
18. 1914 - 1918
World War I
Medger Evers
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Reynolds v. Sims
19. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Muckrakers
Urbanization
Imperialism
Dust Bowl
20. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Rosa Parks
Berlin Wall
The Little Rock Nine
Hoovervilles
21. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Jonas Salk
18th Amendment
GI Bill
22. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
19thAmendment
William H. Taft
World War II
Gideon v. Wainwright
23. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Nullification Crisis
5th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
24. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Harlem Renaissance
Escobedo v. Illinois
Bracero Program
Clarence Darrow
25. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
The Scopes Trial
7th Amendment
Battle of Midway
Susan B. Anthony
26. The prohibition of alcohol.
Barbed wire
Benjamin Franklin
Omar Bradley
18th Amendment
27. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Social Darwinism
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Medger Evers
Neil Armstrong
28. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
22nd Amendment
16th Amendment
John J. Pershing
29. No cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Manifest Destiny
Transcontinental railroad
The Holocaust
30. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Trench Warfare
21st Amendment
5th Amendment
Spanish - American War
31. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
4th Amendment
SEC
U-2 Incident
Cattle Drives
32. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Muckrakers
The Scopes Trial
Benjamin Franklin
Federalism
33. Founding father - politician - scientist
Benjamin Franklin
Flappers
24th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
34. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Social Darwinism
U-2 Incident
Escobedo v. Illinois
Nullification Crisis
35. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Muckrakers
Teapot Dome Scandal
Benjamin Franklin
1st Amendment
36. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
John Scopes
Shirley Chisholm
Laissez Faire
37. The right to a fast and public trial.
Nullification Crisis
U.S.S. Maine
6th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
38. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Social Darwinism
1st Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
39. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
FDIC
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Rosenberg's
40. President 1961-63
John F. Kennedy
Bracero Program
10th Amendment
Jim Crow laws
41. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Baker v. Carr
The Little Rock Nine
Omar Bradley
Theodore Roosevelt
42. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
7th Amendment
Korean War
Viet Nam
Jim Crow laws
43. Established the federal income tax.
Civil War
16th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
Samuel Adams
44. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Free Enterprise Economy
9th Amendment
Barbed wire
24th Amendment
45. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
John Scopes
Battle of Midway
Bay of Pigs
8th Amendment
46. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
The Articles of Confederation
Columbian Exchange
Industrialization
47. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
GI Bill
Social Darwinism
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Elvis Presley
48. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Dust Bowl
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Jacob Riis
Barbed wire
49. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Neil Armstrong
The Baby Boom
Homestead Act
Red Scare
50. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
8th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Jacob Riis
WPA
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