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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Domino Theory
Berlin Airlift
Battle of Midway
Thomas Paine
2. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Martin Luther King Jr
Sacco and Vanzetti
Miranda v. Arizona
FDIC
3. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
10th Amendment
Elvis Presley
4. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
SEC
Sputnik
GI Bill
Clarence Darrow
5. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jonas Salk
The Jazz Age
Martin Luther King Jr
6. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Emancipation Proclamation
William H. Taft
Rosa Parks
Segregation
7. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
Benjamin Franklin
Containment
Theodore Roosevelt
8. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Baker v. Carr
Shirley Chisholm
John Scopes
Berlin Wall
9. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Bracero Program
The Baby Boom
John J. Pershing
Cesar Chavez
10. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Shirley Chisholm
Great Society
Calvin Coolidge
The Baby Boom
11. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
Social Darwinism
21st Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
12. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Escobedo v. Illinois
Separation of Powers
Containment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
13. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
The Articles of Confederation
Gloria Steinem
Thomas Jefferson
Booker T. Washington
14. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Jonas Salk
GI Bill
League of Nations
15. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Bay of Pigs
6th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
Political machines
16. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
13th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Trench Warfare
2nd Amendment
17. Trial by jury.
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
7th Amendment
21st Amendment
18. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalist Papers
Federalism
19. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Rough Riders
Alfred Thayer Mahan
court packing
Treaty of Versailles
20. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Samuel Adams
Spanish - American War
Medger Evers
21. Separation by race.
3rd Amendment
SEC
Segregation
Treaty of Versailles
22. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
7th Amendment
WEB DuBois
Double V Campaign
Teapot Dome Scandal
23. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Immigration
Thomas Jefferson
Calvin Coolidge
Samuel Adams
24. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
William H. Taft
Richard M. Nixon
Civil War
Fourteen Points
25. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Bill of Rights
Battle of Midway
Pearl Harbor
Alfred Thayer Mahan
26. American painter from 1920's
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27. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Containment
U-2 Incident
Thomas Paine
Berlin Wall
28. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Marshall Plan (1948)
The Holocaust
John J. Pershing
Upton Sinclair
29. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Marshall Plan (1948)
Rough Riders
Cattle Drives
30. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Clarence Darrow
Jim Crow laws
Domino Theory
Hoovervilles
31. 1939 - 1945
Plessy v. Ferguson
World War II
Omar Bradley
Red Scare
32. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Malcolm X
Battle of Wounded Knee
Hoovervilles
Watergate
33. No unlawful search and seizure.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
William H. Taft
3rd Amendment
4th Amendment
34. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
19thAmendment
18th Amendment
Viet Nam
Industrialization
35. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Urbanization
Pearl Harbor
Bobby Kennedy
Henry Ford
36. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
NATO (1959)
Jacob Riis
Double V Campaign
10th Amendment
37. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
NATO (1959)
Rosa Parks
Tenements
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
38. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Free Enterprise Economy
Imperialism
Warren G. Harding
Spanish - American War
39. Communist leader of Cuba.
Cesar Chavez
Fidel Castro
Omar Bradley
Federalist Papers
40. Invented the vaccine for polio
Charles Lindbergh
William H. Taft
Jonas Salk
Abraham Lincoln
41. No quartering of troops during peace time
Rough Riders
Elvis Presley
Charles Lindbergh
3rd Amendment
42. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
SEC
Civil War
5th Amendment
Containment
43. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Separation of Powers
Alfred Thayer Mahan
1st Amendment
King George III
44. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Federalism
17th Amendment
13th Amendment
Containment
45. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
10th Amendment
Red Scare
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Rosenberg's
46. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Trench Warfare
Bobby Kennedy
The Great Migration
Populism
47. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Flappers
Truman Doctrine (1947)
22nd Amendment
Jim Crow laws
48. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Gloria Steinem
4th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Hoovervilles
49. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Checks and Balances
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Woodrow Wilson
Social Darwinism
50. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Tenements
Malcolm X
Imperialism