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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Political machines
Viet Nam
Civil War
Douglas MacArthur
2. Separation by race.
Immigration
Bay of Pigs
Segregation
Samuel Adams
3. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
18th Amendment
The New Deal
The Great Migration
4. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Thomas Jefferson
Pearl Harbor
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
The Great Migration
5. Rights reserved to the people.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
9th Amendment
8th Amendment
3rd Amendment
6. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Battle of Wounded Knee
WEB DuBois
Jacob Riis
John Scopes
7. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Douglas MacArthur
Normandy
John F. Kennedy
World War II
8. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Ronald Reagan
NATO (1959)
Dust Bowl
9th Amendment
9. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Gideon v. Wainwright
WPA
Barbed wire
Laissez Faire
10. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Marshall Plan (1948)
Industrialization
Richard M. Nixon
Double V Campaign
11. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Gloria Steinem
Harry S. Truman
26th Amendment
6th Amendment
12. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Rosa Parks
Emancipation Proclamation
Brown v. Board of Education
Reconstruction
13. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Malcolm X
Transcontinental railroad
The Harlem Renaissance
14. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Harry S. Truman
Booker T. Washington
6th Amendment
Rosa Parks
15. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Double V Campaign
Laissez Faire
Flappers
WPA
16. First astronaut to land on the moon.
The Great Migration
John Scopes
Sputnik
Neil Armstrong
17. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
1st Amendment
Omar Bradley
The Jazz Age
Booker T. Washington
18. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Sputnik
Martin Luther King Jr
Populism
Joe McCarthy
19. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
21st Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
Great Society
The Baby Boom
20. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Theodore Roosevelt
Jacob Riis
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Federalism
21. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Richard M. Nixon
The Rosenberg's
The Baby Boom
Bracero Program
22. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Douglas MacArthur
22nd Amendment
Separation of Powers
Jacob Riis
23. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Clarence Darrow
Bobby Kennedy
14th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
24. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
17th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
Red Scare
Laissez Faire
25. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Hoovervilles
Rough Riders
Homestead Act
19thAmendment
26. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
The Holocaust
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
William 'Boss' Tweed
Jonas Salk
27. Invented the vaccine for polio
Great Compromise
Jonas Salk
Pearl Harbor
Emancipation Proclamation
28. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Industrialization
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
WPA
Command Economy
29. Progressive president who served during WW I.
5th Amendment
World War II
King George III
Woodrow Wilson
30. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
3rd Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Georgia O'Keefe
Martin Luther King Jr
31. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Spanish - American War
Treaty of Versailles
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
6th Amendment
32. 1914 - 1918
William H. Taft
2nd Amendment
Gloria Steinem
World War I
33. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
3rd Amendment
Red Scare
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
34. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Checks and Balances
Rosa Parks
U.S.S. Maine
Segregation
35. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Nullification Crisis
Barbed wire
Immigration
The Harlem Renaissance
36. President 1963-68
Battle of Wounded Knee
19thAmendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bracero Program
37. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Great Compromise
Nullification Crisis
Spanish - American War
Emancipation Proclamation
38. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
William Jennings Bryan
The Scopes Trial
Harry S. Truman
39. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
2nd Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe
Thomas Jefferson
Jim Crow laws
40. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
NATO (1959)
William Jennings Bryan
Susan B. Anthony
Miranda v. Arizona
41. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Rough Riders
Spanish - American War
1st Amendment
Cattle Drives
42. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Homestead Act
Woodrow Wilson
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Trench Warfare
43. New York political machine boss.
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44. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
Imperialism
John F. Kennedy
19thAmendment
45. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Watergate
The Holocaust
2nd Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
46. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Homestead Act
Double V Campaign
Prohibition
Command Economy
47. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Manifest Destiny
Gloria Steinem
Medger Evers
5th Amendment
48. No quartering of troops during peace time
The Scopes Trial
Reconstruction
Sacco and Vanzetti
3rd Amendment
49. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
U-2 Incident
Georgia O'Keefe
William H. Taft
Korean War
50. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
Industrialization
The Scopes Trial
Thomas Paine