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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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1. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Theocracy
Enlightenment
level of development
Columbian Exchange
2. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Famine
Per Capita Income
Factory System
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
3. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
John Locke
Indulgences
1787-1789
limited government
4. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
The Senate
Enlightenment
Draco
Irrigation Canals
5. 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
Federalist
Silk Road
veto
Magna Carta
6. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Constitutional Monarchy
International Trade
Crusaders
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
7. The System in the U.S. and other free market economies. It includes economic choice - competition - profit motive - and limited government regulation of the economy.
Articles of Conf.
Henry Ford
13th Amendment
Free - enterprise economic system
8. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
amendment
Nullification Crisis
Cotton Gin
Articles of Confederation
9. These slow down movement/migration
1066
Declaration of Independence
Free - enterprise economic system
Barriers
10. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Industrialized
Iron Curtain
Separation of Powers
Renaissance
11. A government that elects its leaders
Self Determination
Republic
Plessy v. Ferguson
tariff
12. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Subsistence economy
Bill of Rights
Indulgences
Land Ordinance of 1785
13. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Founding of Jamestown
Justinian
bias
Straits
14. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
George Washington
1787-1789
Republicanism
Magna Carta
15. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
grievance
secondary source
Justinian
imports
16. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Schism
Representative Government
Separation of Powers
King George III
17. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
15th Amendment
Commercial Agriculture
Emancipation Proclamation
Communism/Command Economy
18. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Per Capita Income
exports
Individual Rights
19. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
rural
Federalist Papers
Demographics
20. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Thomas Jefferson
bias
14th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
21. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Marbury v. Madison
veto
Per Capita Income
Subsistence economy
22. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Traditional economy
Taxation
Declaration of Indepen.
Industrial Revolution
23. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Direct Democracy
Popular Sovereignty
Constitutional Conv.
imports
24. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Representative democracy
Abe Lincoln
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Straits of Hormuz
25. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
1787
Subsistence agriculture
George Washington
Emancipation Proclamation
26. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Bill of Rights
Draco
Declaration of Independence
Basic Needs
27. 1st written constitution
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Fund. Order of Conn.
Justinian
Plessy v. Ferguson
28. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Traditional economy
Civil War 1861-1865
Popular Sovereignty
Mayflower Compact
29. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Abe Lincoln
suburban
subsistence agriculture
Representative Government
30. To officially approve.
Anti - Federalists
ratify
Industrialization
Federalist Papers
31. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Columbian Exchange
Civil War
U.S. Constitution
Separation of Powers .
32. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Plessy v. Ferguson
suffrage
George Washington
Standard of living
33. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
1215
Basic Needs
Republic
End of Reconstruction
34. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Migration
The Nullification Crisis
Thomas Jefferson
English Bill of Rights
35. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Monotheism
Indulgences
English Bill of Rights
market - oriented agriculture
36. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Magna Carta
Popular Sovereignty
Montesquieu
Iron Curtain
37. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
grievance
Columbian Exchange
Marbury v. Madison
Thomas Jefferson
38. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Anti - Federalist
limited government
ziggurats
international
39. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
1066
Monroe doctrine
Bubonic Plague
Suez Canal
40. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Justinian
exports
Cotton Gin
Crusaders
41. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Capitalism/Market Economy
Industrialized
Migration
Atlantic Slave Trade
42. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Marbury v. Madison
Magnetic Compass
cultural diffusion
Federalism
43. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Federalist
Protestant Reformation
Declaration of Independence
Columbian Exchange
44. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
(naval) blockade
Andean civilization
Limited Government
Marbury v. Madison
45. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Popular Sovereignty
Federalist Papers
Cottage industry
Montesquieu
46. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
House of Burgesses
Renaissance
Demographics
47. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Cathedrals
Abe Lincoln
ratify
Labor force
48. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Oligarchy
Protestant Reformation
Popular Sovereignty
Bartering
49. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Industrial Revolution
14th Amendment
Constitutional Monarchy
Commercial Agriculture
50. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Renaissance
Subsistence economy
Thomas Jefferson
Parliament