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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
English Bill of Rights
Silk Road
Bubonic Plague
Absolute Monarchy
2. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Founding of Jamestown
Irrigation Canals
Nullification Crisis
George Washington
3. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Fund. Order of Conn.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Republic
Magna Carta
4. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Silk Road
Bill of Rights
Individual Rights
English Bill of Rights
5. Mass production of food
Industrialization
Commercial Agriculture
Mayflower Compact
Iron Curtain
6. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Magna Carta
Civil War
Karl Marx
Declaration of Indepen.
7. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Per Capita Income
Bubonic Plague
Middle Ages
Industrial Revolution
8. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Factory System
Abe Lincoln
imports
Representative democracy
9. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Federalist
Marbury v. Madison
Representative Democracy
Natural Barriers
10. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Magna Carta
Immigration patterns
1787-1789
Per Capita Income
11. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Parliament
The Nullification Crisis
George Washington
Plessy v. Ferguson
12. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Enlightenment
Federalism
15th Amendment
Magna Carta
13. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Civil War
Declaration of Independence
Crusaders
Urban
14. Average income per person
House of Burgesses
rural
Per Capita Income
Federalist Papers
15. King of England during the American Revolution.
George Washington
King George III
Theocracy
Demographics
16. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
limited government
Sub - Saharan Africa .
End of Reconstruction
Polytheism
17. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
English Bill of Rights
Representative democracy
limited government
Mayflower Compact
18. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Middle Ages
George Washington
Industrial Revolution
19. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe doctrine
Bill of Rights
1787-1789
13th Amendment
20. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
rural
Nullification Crisis
Inalienable/Unalienable
Mayflower Compact
21. 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
Representative Democracy
Anti - Federalist
Longitude
federalism
22. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Magna Carta
Communism/Command Economy
Infant Mortality
Mayflower Compact
23. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Polytheism
Federalist
Self Determination
Natural Barriers
24. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Separation of Powers
Sub - Saharan Africa .
suburban
Representative democracy
25. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
George Washington
Representative Government
Hammurabi
Secularism
26. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Limited Government
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Cuneiform
13th Amendment
27. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Basic Needs
Magna Carta
environment
28. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Humanism
(naval) blockade
Per Capita Income
era
29. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
Magnetic Compass
Hammurabi
Representative democracy
30. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Suez Canal
Life Expectancy
Mesoamerica civilizations
31. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Plessy v. Ferguson
Traditional economy
Oligarchy
Constitutional Conv.
32. 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.
Traditional economy
Federalism
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
primary source
33. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.
Imperialism
unalienable
Force Bill
International Trade
34. Economic thinker that developed communism
House of Burgesses
international
Constitutional Monarchy
Karl Marx
35. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
English Bill of Rights
Subsistence economy
Panama Canal
Oligarchy
36. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
grievance
Imperialism
The Nullification Crisis
Hammurabi
37. Making goods out of the home
Migration
urban
Cottage industry
Infant Mortality
38. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Bartering
Silk Road
George Washington
Fund. Order of Conn.
39. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
era
Panama Canal
Monotheism
Industrial Revolution
40. Involving other countries
Imperialism
Silk Road
Basic Needs
international
41. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Bartering
Life Expectancy
Printing Press
Mesoamerica civilizations
42. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Self Determination
English Bill of Rights
ziggurats
95 Theses
43. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Cottage industry
Emancipation Proclamation
Popular Sovereignty
44. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Irrigation Canals
Atlantic Slave Trade
Taxation
exports
45. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Plessy v. Ferguson
Anti - Federalist
Monotheism
Republic
46. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
limited government
John Locke
Bill of Rights
Industrialization
47. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
imports
Republicanism
Unconstitutional
House of Burgesses
48. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
End of Reconstruction
Treaty of Paris 1783
Subsistence agriculture
Basic Needs
49. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
Industrial Revolution
Representative Democracy
Checks and Balances
50. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Declaration of Independence
Schism
Constitutional Monarchy
Straits of Hormuz