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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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1. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Articles of Confederation
The Rosenberg's
League of Nations
2. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Omar Bradley
14th Amendment
Homestead Act
Plessy v. Ferguson
3. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Malcolm X
Great Society
Great Compromise
Columbian Exchange
4. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Andrew Carnegie
Free Enterprise Economy
Columbian Exchange
Alfred Thayer Mahan
5. The right to vote for women.
Escobedo v. Illinois
The War on Poverty
19thAmendment
1st Amendment
6. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
24th Amendment
World War II
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Holocaust
7. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Elvis Presley
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Little Rock Nine
Immigration
8. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
7th Amendment
NATO (1959)
Muckrakers
Jonas Salk
9. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Industrialization
Baker v. Carr
Berlin Wall
10. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Baker v. Carr
Abraham Lincoln
Georgia O'Keefe
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
11. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Industrialization
Nikita Kruschev
14th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
12. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
George Washington
Yellow Journalism
Georgia O'Keefe
10th Amendment
13. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
William Jennings Bryan
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Hoovervilles
Pearl Harbor
14. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Bracero Program
NATO (1959)
Sacco and Vanzetti
Dust Bowl
15. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Industrialization
Escobedo v. Illinois
World War II
Civil War
16. United Farm Workers activist
The Jazz Age
NATO (1959)
Cesar Chavez
Martin Luther King Jr
17. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Martin Luther King Jr
Island hopping
Korean War
Ronald Reagan
18. President 1961-63
Berlin Wall
Yellow Journalism
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr
19. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Theodore Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
The Articles of Confederation
Checks and Balances
20. New York political machine boss.
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21. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
4th Amendment
Reconstruction
Island hopping
Dawes Act
22. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pearl Harbor
WPA
23. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
U.S.S. Maine
Shirley Chisholm
Viet Nam
Fidel Castro
24. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
26th Amendment
Containment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
10th Amendment
25. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Berlin Wall
Spanish - American War
Domino Theory
Fourteen Points
26. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Dust Bowl
Richard M. Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bill of Rights
27. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Bay of Pigs
Plessy v. Ferguson
Treaty of Versailles
Woodrow Wilson
28. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Brown v. Board of Education
Bobby Kennedy
Berlin Wall
Harry S. Truman
29. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
George Washington
Flappers
World War II
19thAmendment
30. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
The Baby Boom
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Samuel Adams
31. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Separation of Powers
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Battle of Wounded Knee
Dust Bowl
32. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Berlin Wall
The Harlem Renaissance
Ronald Reagan
Great Society
33. The right to a fast and public trial.
26th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
World War II
6th Amendment
34. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
The Rosenberg's
William Jennings Bryan
35. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
The New Deal
Political machines
Ronald Reagan
Dawes Act
36. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
17th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
Fidel Castro
Samuel Adams
37. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Populism
William H. Taft
Teapot Dome Scandal
Cesar Chavez
38. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Checks and Balances
The War on Poverty
8th Amendment
GI Bill
39. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Upton Sinclair
Social Darwinism
Berlin Airlift
Muckrakers
40. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Bobby Kennedy
George Wallace
Cattle Drives
Sacco and Vanzetti
41. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Separation of Powers
24th Amendment
42. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Articles of Confederation
The Scopes Trial
26th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
43. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Escobedo v. Illinois
Treaty of Versailles
6th Amendment
Prohibition
44. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tenements
Abraham Lincoln
Douglas MacArthur
Prohibition
45. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Teapot Dome Scandal
Containment
Columbian Exchange
1st Amendment
46. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The War on Poverty
Richard M. Nixon
Clarence Darrow
47. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Red Scare
World War I
24th Amendment
5th Amendment
48. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Rough Riders
Cuban Missile Crisis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Trench Warfare
49. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Sputnik
5th Amendment
The New Deal
Watergate
50. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X
Viet Nam
League of Nations
14th Amendment