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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
nullify
Individual Rights
Separation of Powers
Cotton Gin
2. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Longitude
Latitude
Separation of Powers
3. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Nullification Crisis
nullify
Articles of Confederation
Bartering
4. First organizing of 13 colonies.
exports
suburban
Direct Democracy
Articles of Conf.
5. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Emancipation Proclamation
McCullough v. Maryland
urban
6. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
Suez Canal
Migration
Silk Road
Checks and Balances
7. Member of a country.
Direct Democracy
citizen
Draco
Factory System
8. King/queen who has unlimited power
Marbury v. Madison
George Washington
Absolute Monarchy
cultural diffusion
9. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
15th Amendment
(naval) blockade
14th Amendment
Migration
10. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Thomas Jefferson
Infant Mortality
Schism
11. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
Atlantic Slave Trade
Civil War
Limited Government
12. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Life Expectancy
Plessy v. Ferguson
colonists
Indulgences
13. King of England during the American Revolution.
Checks and Balances
King George III
Declaration of Independence
Marbury v. Madison
14. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Self Determination
domestic
federalism
Scientific Revolution
15. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Monotheism
14th Amendment
The Nullification Crisis
Federalist Papers
16. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Bill of Rights
level of development
Migration
Magna Carta
17. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
Communism/Command Economy
Industrialization
Checks and Balances
18. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
John Locke
Andean civilization
George Washington
Constitutional Conv.
19. Average number of years people live
Humanism
Life Expectancy
Magna Carta
Anti - Federalist
20. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
1787
Crusaders
13th Amendment
Magna Carta
21. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Popular Sovereignty
15th Amendment
Industrialized
Magnetic Compass
22. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Infant Mortality
1787-1789
Subsistence economy
unalienable
23. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Commercial Agriculture
Henry Ford
Polytheism
Totalitarianism
24. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Unconstitutional
14th Amendment
Traditional economy
Suez Canal
25. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Constitutional Conv.
Founding of Jamestown
era
Emancipation Proclamation
26. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
U.S. Constitution
Federalism
27. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Basic Needs
Infant Mortality
Cotton Gin
Checks and Balances
28. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Civil War
Adam Smith
States Rights
Enlightenment
29. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
Anti - Federalists
primary source
1787
urban
30. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Taxation
Bill of Rights
Famine
bias
31. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Anti - Federalists
Consent of the Governed
Nullification Crisis
Constitutional Conv.
32. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
1787-1789
Subsistence agriculture
limited government
33. 1st written constitution
imports
Federalist Papers
Fund. Order of Conn.
Land Ordinance of 1785
34. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
1066
Bill of Rights
Self Determination
era
35. Mountains - deserts and oceans
End of Reconstruction
Natural Barriers
14th Amendment
English Bill of Rights
36. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
Free - enterprise economic system
Straits of Hormuz
Communism/Command Economy
market - oriented agriculture
37. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Plessy v. Ferguson
Longitude
38. Opposed to the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government and not enough to the states. They also wanted individual rights protected
Constitutional Conv.
Infant Mortality
Per Capita Income
Anti - Federalist
39. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Checks and Balances
Subsistence agriculture
Founding of Jamestown
Emancipation Proclamation
40. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Immigration patterns
Imperialism
Polytheism
Karl Marx
41. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Absolute Monarchy
End of Reconstruction
subsistence agriculture
1215
42. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Limited Government
George Washington
15th Amendment
Enlightenment
43. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Factory System
primary source
Magnetic Compass
Oligarchy
44. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Basic Needs
15th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Conv.
45. Modern Constitution
Monroe doctrine
veto
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
46. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Schism
Consent of the Governed
Republicanism
Communism/Command Economy
47. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Hammurabi
tariff
Longitude
Totalitarianism
48. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Absolute Monarchy
limited government
international
Mayflower Compact
49. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Absolute Monarchy
Hammurabi
era
50. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.
1787
Montesquieu
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
14th Amendment