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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.
Clarence Darrow
Jonas Salk
Political machines
Imperialism
2. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
Escobedo v. Illinois
Great Society
George Washington
3. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Bill of Rights
Columbian Exchange
The Great Migration
Tenements
4. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
John F. Kennedy
Spanish - American War
Viet Nam
Miranda v. Arizona
5. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Rough Riders
Thomas Jefferson
Columbian Exchange
Domino Theory
6. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
17th Amendment
Industrialization
8th Amendment
16th Amendment
7. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
14th Amendment
Muckrakers
Industrialization
8. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Gloria Steinem
Barbed wire
Federalist Papers
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
9. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
3rd Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
Escobedo v. Illinois
10. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Korean War
John Scopes
Theodore Roosevelt
Red Scare
11. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
Great Society
Separation of Powers
Clarence Darrow
12. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
Henry Ford
Booker T. Washington
Neil Armstrong
13. Movement of people into a country from another country.
The War on Poverty
Spanish - American War
Immigration
Populism
14. Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Baker v. Carr
Gloria Steinem
15. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Segregation
The Holocaust
U.S.S. Maine
NATO (1959)
16. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
The Little Rock Nine
Populism
WPA
Andrew Carnegie
17. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Separation of Powers
Woodrow Wilson
6th Amendment
14th Amendment
18. Powers reserved to the states
Double V Campaign
Ronald Reagan
10th Amendment
Bill of Rights
19. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Bobby Kennedy
Fidel Castro
Escobedo v. Illinois
8th Amendment
20. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Island hopping
24th Amendment
10th Amendment
Sacco and Vanzetti
21. The direct election of US Senators.
Industrialization
Elvis Presley
Normandy
17th Amendment
22. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Shirley Chisholm
Bracero Program
Sacco and Vanzetti
26th Amendment
23. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Upton Sinclair
Ronald Reagan
15th Amendment
Marshall Plan (1948)
24. President 1961-63
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Booker T. Washington
John F. Kennedy
Reynolds v. Sims
25. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
The Holocaust
Richard M. Nixon
Berlin Wall
Watergate
26. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Hoovervilles
Joe McCarthy
Brown v. Board of Education
The War on Poverty
27. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Urbanization
John Scopes
Bay of Pigs
Booker T. Washington
28. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
William 'Boss' Tweed
1st Amendment
Cattle Drives
29. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
Federalist Papers
Abraham Lincoln
8th Amendment
30. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
15th Amendment
Nullification Crisis
Federalist Papers
William Jennings Bryan
31. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Treaty of Versailles
The Scopes Trial
Emancipation Proclamation
The New Deal
32. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Federalism
Imperialism
33. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Jacob Riis
Charles Lindbergh
Booker T. Washington
League of Nations
34. President during Roaring 20's
Domino Theory
Calvin Coolidge
Miranda v. Arizona
Hoovervilles
35. Communist leader of Cuba.
SEC
Fidel Castro
Lyndon B. Johnson
Reynolds v. Sims
36. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
WPA
William Jennings Bryan
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Charles Lindbergh
37. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Populism
Sacco and Vanzetti
Bill of Rights
Berlin Wall
38. United Farm Workers activist
Thomas Paine
Muckrakers
Cesar Chavez
Gideon v. Wainwright
39. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
22nd Amendment
Thomas Paine
40. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
Treaty of Versailles
Bay of Pigs
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
41. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Yellow Journalism
Tenements
Nullification Crisis
Fourteen Points
42. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
WEB DuBois
Emancipation Proclamation
Baker v. Carr
43. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Neil Armstrong
Separation of Powers
Viet Nam
Joe McCarthy
44. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Cuban Missile Crisis
1st Amendment
Baker v. Carr
Separation of Powers
45. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Holocaust
Sputnik
8th Amendment
46. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Elvis Presley
The Holocaust
Trench Warfare
Shirley Chisholm
47. 1860 - 1865
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Civil War
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
17th Amendment
48. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Berlin Airlift
Nullification Crisis
19thAmendment
49. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Marshall Plan (1948)
The Baby Boom
Containment
Bracero Program
50. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Pearl Harbor
GI Bill
19thAmendment
Warren G. Harding