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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
World War I
Battle of Midway
Federalism
26th Amendment
2. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
24th Amendment
Social Darwinism
Reconstruction
21st Amendment
3. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Viet Nam
19thAmendment
The Great Migration
Reynolds v. Sims
4. No quartering of troops during peace time
Sputnik
3rd Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Korean War
5. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
14th Amendment
The Rosenberg's
Nikita Kruschev
Domino Theory
6. Established the federal income tax.
Harry S. Truman
16th Amendment
Rosa Parks
Reconstruction
7. American painter from 1920's
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8. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
John Scopes
16th Amendment
9th Amendment
John J. Pershing
9. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
9th Amendment
John Scopes
Immigration
Normandy
10. President during Roaring 20's
Henry Ford
Bobby Kennedy
Domino Theory
Calvin Coolidge
11. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Jonas Salk
26th Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Marshall Plan (1948)
12. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
World War I
Dust Bowl
The Scopes Trial
Truman Doctrine (1947)
13. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Columbian Exchange
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Miranda v. Arizona
Industrialization
14. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Thomas Paine
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Harlem Renaissance
Fourteen Points
15. Movement of people into a country from another country.
FDIC
Immigration
Andrew Carnegie
William 'Boss' Tweed
16. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Free Enterprise Economy
Columbian Exchange
22nd Amendment
17. The right to a fast and public trial.
Flappers
6th Amendment
13th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
18. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
2nd Amendment
Cattle Drives
Joe McCarthy
Transcontinental railroad
19. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Theodore Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
Rosa Parks
Barbed wire
20. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Command Economy
Dawes Act
Plessy v. Ferguson
Populism
21. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
Urbanization
Joe McCarthy
13th Amendment
22. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Normandy
Political machines
Immigration
Omar Bradley
23. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Samuel Adams
24th Amendment
Checks and Balances
Elvis Presley
24. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Benjamin Franklin
Trench Warfare
Gloria Steinem
25. 1860 - 1865
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Civil War
John Scopes
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
26. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
John Scopes
Command Economy
Berlin Wall
Malcolm X
27. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Woodrow Wilson
Domino Theory
16th Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
28. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
SEC
King George III
Trench Warfare
17th Amendment
29. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Charles Lindbergh
Separation of Powers
George Wallace
30. Abolished the poll tax.
24th Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe
William 'Boss' Tweed
Free Enterprise Economy
31. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
GI Bill
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Berlin Wall
32. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Sputnik
3rd Amendment
U-2 Incident
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
33. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
Containment
The Little Rock Nine
Joe McCarthy
34. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Warren G. Harding
Jonas Salk
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Shirley Chisholm
35. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hoovervilles
Social Darwinism
Gloria Steinem
36. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Bracero Program
Domino Theory
Clarence Darrow
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
37. The prohibition of alcohol.
The Great Migration
The Rosenberg's
18th Amendment
4th Amendment
38. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Teapot Dome Scandal
8th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
39. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
5th Amendment
Yellow Journalism
Containment
Pearl Harbor
40. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Malcolm X
Jonas Salk
Tenements
Cuban Missile Crisis
41. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Plessy v. Ferguson
Samuel Adams
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Miranda v. Arizona
42. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
League of Nations
Fidel Castro
The Little Rock Nine
43. United Farm Workers activist
22nd Amendment
WPA
Cesar Chavez
Trench Warfare
44. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Barbed wire
Laissez Faire
Georgia O'Keefe
45. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Nullification Crisis
Woodrow Wilson
Muckrakers
Urbanization
46. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
John J. Pershing
Clarence Darrow
SEC
GI Bill
47. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
George Washington
14th Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
King George III
48. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Booker T. Washington
21st Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
Omar Bradley
49. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
21st Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Carnegie
U-2 Incident
50. 1914 - 1918
Abraham Lincoln
World War I
Bobby Kennedy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
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