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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Baby Boom
Omar Bradley
13th Amendment
League of Nations
2. Right to bear arms
Gideon v. Wainwright
Bay of Pigs
2nd Amendment
Civil War
3. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
The Rosenberg's
Columbian Exchange
Lyndon B. Johnson
Laissez Faire
4. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
5th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Checks and Balances
Susan B. Anthony
5. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Susan B. Anthony
Jacob Riis
World War I
Containment
6. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
9th Amendment
Jonas Salk
Malcolm X
Pearl Harbor
7. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Fourteen Points
Harry S. Truman
Cesar Chavez
Island hopping
8. Trial by jury.
7th Amendment
10th Amendment
Dust Bowl
The Holocaust
9. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Bracero Program
Red Scare
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18th Amendment
10. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Rosa Parks
Charles Lindbergh
Omar Bradley
Treaty of Versailles
11. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Political machines
21st Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
U-2 Incident
12. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Shirley Chisholm
The Jazz Age
14th Amendment
Federalism
13. 1914 - 1918
World War I
Dust Bowl
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Omar Bradley
14. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Shirley Chisholm
William H. Taft
15. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Sputnik
5th Amendment
Bay of Pigs
Martin Luther King Jr
16. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Homestead Act
King George III
Battle of Midway
Omar Bradley
17. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Populism
The Little Rock Nine
15th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
18. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Dust Bowl
The Great Migration
Battle of Midway
Bill of Rights
19. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Calvin Coolidge
Watergate
Tenements
Checks and Balances
20. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
The War on Poverty
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
21. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Berlin Wall
Cesar Chavez
Prohibition
Imperialism
22. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Tenements
Great Compromise
1st Amendment
Reconstruction
23. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Civil War
Muckrakers
Dawes Act
24. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
15th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
Yellow Journalism
25. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
Martin Luther King Jr
Civil War
John Scopes
26. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Thomas Paine
Trench Warfare
Joe McCarthy
Fidel Castro
27. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Bobby Kennedy
Barbed wire
Brown v. Board of Education
The Jazz Age
28. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Plessy v. Ferguson
Miranda v. Arizona
Viet Nam
Bracero Program
29. Founding father - politician - scientist
Malcolm X
George Wallace
FDIC
Benjamin Franklin
30. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Political machines
Red Scare
Clarence Darrow
31. No cruel or unusual punishment.
1st Amendment
24th Amendment
8th Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
32. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
5th Amendment
Populism
Samuel Adams
George Wallace
33. Abolished slavery
13th Amendment
Imperialism
Transcontinental railroad
Great Society
34. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Miranda v. Arizona
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Bay of Pigs
Baker v. Carr
35. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Nullification Crisis
GI Bill
Red Scare
Fourteen Points
36. No unlawful search and seizure.
Rough Riders
The Scopes Trial
4th Amendment
GI Bill
37. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
William H. Taft
Marshall Plan (1948)
Command Economy
Nikita Kruschev
38. No quartering of troops during peace time
FDIC
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Little Rock Nine
3rd Amendment
39. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Free Enterprise Economy
Shirley Chisholm
Rough Riders
U-2 Incident
40. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Berlin Wall
The Rosenberg's
Warren G. Harding
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
41. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
10th Amendment
Yellow Journalism
Benjamin Franklin
14th Amendment
42. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm
Jacob Riis
Cesar Chavez
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
43. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Island hopping
Joe McCarthy
Marshall Plan (1948)
Battle of Wounded Knee
44. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
19thAmendment
William Jennings Bryan
1st Amendment
Checks and Balances
45. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
18th Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe
Political machines
Medger Evers
46. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
19thAmendment
Gloria Steinem
Berlin Wall
Theodore Roosevelt
47. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Dawes Act
Island hopping
GI Bill
U-2 Incident
48. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
15th Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
U.S.S. Maine
Spanish - American War
49. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
21st Amendment
NATO (1959)
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Gloria Steinem
50. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Sputnik
Woodrow Wilson
Cattle Drives
24th Amendment