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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Red Scare
Great Compromise
Segregation
2. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Immigration
Sputnik
Upton Sinclair
Trench Warfare
3. Established the federal income tax.
4th Amendment
16th Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Dawes Act
4. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Great Society
5th Amendment
Industrialization
Rough Riders
5. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Manifest Destiny
9th Amendment
Tenements
3rd Amendment
6. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Federalist Papers
Escobedo v. Illinois
Watergate
Bracero Program
7. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Fourteen Points
GI Bill
Sputnik
Free Enterprise Economy
8. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
The Holocaust
1st Amendment
Samuel Adams
Woodrow Wilson
9. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Domino Theory
Dawes Act
Federalist Papers
Omar Bradley
10. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
SEC
U-2 Incident
Medger Evers
3rd Amendment
11. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Homestead Act
7th Amendment
Rosa Parks
12. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
World War II
Abraham Lincoln
Spanish - American War
Political machines
13. Abolished slavery
Harry S. Truman
Korean War
13th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
14. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Neil Armstrong
Fidel Castro
Martin Luther King Jr
Reynolds v. Sims
15. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Georgia O'Keefe
Civil War
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Industrialization
16. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Ronald Reagan
Richard M. Nixon
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
24th Amendment
17. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Federalism
Berlin Wall
15th Amendment
GI Bill
18. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
Great Compromise
22nd Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe
19. 1860 - 1865
The Little Rock Nine
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Civil War
Laissez Faire
20. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
FDIC
Reconstruction
League of Nations
Lyndon B. Johnson
21. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Malcolm X
Douglas MacArthur
Brown v. Board of Education
10th Amendment
22. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Populism
17th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
15th Amendment
23. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Reynolds v. Sims
Bay of Pigs
Rosa Parks
16th Amendment
24. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Reynolds v. Sims
Harry S. Truman
Great Compromise
24th Amendment
25. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Elvis Presley
Prohibition
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Transcontinental railroad
26. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
John Scopes
18th Amendment
Red Scare
27. President 1963-68
Segregation
Lyndon B. Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
17th Amendment
28. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
John J. Pershing
FDIC
NATO (1959)
29. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
26th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Susan B. Anthony
U.S.S. Maine
30. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
22nd Amendment
Hoovervilles
Richard M. Nixon
31. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
NATO (1959)
Henry Ford
Pearl Harbor
Great Society
32. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Teapot Dome Scandal
Nikita Kruschev
Georgia O'Keefe
Harry S. Truman
33. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
16th Amendment
Jim Crow laws
Teapot Dome Scandal
34. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Spanish - American War
Escobedo v. Illinois
Neil Armstrong
Viet Nam
35. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
The Holocaust
21st Amendment
Omar Bradley
Pearl Harbor
36. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
William Jennings Bryan
Berlin Wall
Sputnik
Red Scare
37. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Imperialism
Populism
10th Amendment
Douglas MacArthur
38. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
The Scopes Trial
Battle of Wounded Knee
Jim Crow laws
39. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Pearl Harbor
Jacob Riis
Susan B. Anthony
21st Amendment
40. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Richard M. Nixon
The Scopes Trial
Watergate
Thomas Paine
41. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
SEC
World War II
42. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Double V Campaign
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Jonas Salk
43. President 1961-63
John F. Kennedy
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Pearl Harbor
Truman Doctrine (1947)
44. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
The New Deal
SEC
Yellow Journalism
Douglas MacArthur
45. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Bracero Program
Charles Lindbergh
Clarence Darrow
Emancipation Proclamation
46. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Medger Evers
Normandy
Command Economy
Theodore Roosevelt
47. 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
Homestead Act
Thomas Paine
The Little Rock Nine
48. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Omar Bradley
Transcontinental railroad
Yellow Journalism
Shirley Chisholm
49. 1914 - 1918
Federalist Papers
World War I
Miranda v. Arizona
Ronald Reagan
50. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Prohibition
Susan B. Anthony
U.S.S. Maine
Baker v. Carr