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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 Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Treaty of Paris 1783
Polytheism
Individual Rights
citizen
2. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Totalitarianism
House of Burgesses
Industrial Revolution
Straits of Hormuz
3. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Per Capita Income
13th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
Treaty of Paris 1783
4. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Scientific Revolution
13th Amendment
domestic
Barriers
5. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Marbury v. Madison
Commercial Agriculture
Individual Rights
Montesquieu
6. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Andean civilization
Anti - Federalists
English Bill of Rights
Declaration of Indepen.
7. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
unalienable
Republicanism
Consent of the Governed
Representative Democracy
8. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Cathedrals
Life Expectancy
Republic
International Trade
9. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
George Washington
Magnetic Compass
Canals
Consent of the Governed
10. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Magnetic Compass
Civil War
Industrial Revolution
Enlightenment
11. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
13th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
Basic Needs
amendment
12. Modern Constitution
U.S. Constitution
unalienable
1787-1789
Industrial Revolution
13. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
14th Amendment
limited government
Plessy v. Ferguson
Magna Carta
14. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Federalist Papers
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
15th Amendment
Federalism
environment
16. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Communism/Command Economy
Labor force
imports
Republic
17. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
George Washington
Oligarchy
Adam Smith
18. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Thomas Jefferson
Migration
Scientific Revolution
Abe Lincoln
19. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
English Bill of Rights
bias
Indulgences
Republic
20. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Winston Churchill
suburban
Canals
Commercial Agriculture
21. Member of a country.
Iron Curtain
Traditional economy
Bill of Rights
citizen
22. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Individual Rights
Declaration of Independence
14th Amendment
1066
23. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Republicanism
Henry Ford
Winston Churchill
1776
24. Government where the religious leader run the government
Popular Sovereignty
Limited Government
bias
Theocracy
25. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Factory System
Adam Smith
Protestant Reformation
Basic Needs
26. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Magna Carta
Straits of Hormuz
English Bill of Rights
cultural diffusion
27. 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.
exports
Free - enterprise economic system
Life Expectancy
Individual Rights
28. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Federalism
Infant Mortality
Straits
ratify
29. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Immigration patterns
Declaration of Independence
Direct Democracy
30. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Cottage industry
Self Determination
Age of Exploration & Colonization
1787-1789
31. Complaints
Abe Lincoln
grievance
Columbian Exchange
Literacy Rate
32. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
1066
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Andean civilization
33. Officially ended the American Revolution
tariff
Treaty of Paris 1783
Representative democracy
Absolute Monarchy
34. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
federalism
Factory System
rural
Urban
35. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cotton Gin
market - oriented agriculture
Cuneiform
Federalist Papers
36. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Inalienable/Unalienable
subsistence agriculture
Enlightenment
Separation of Powers .
37. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Subsistence economy
Panama Canal
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
38. Average income per person
King George III
George Washington
Urban
Per Capita Income
39. First representative assembly in American
Self Determination
subsistence agriculture
House of Burgesses
Federalism
40. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Nullification Crisis
Scientific Revolution
Anti - Federalists
suburban
41. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Age of Exploration & Colonization
ziggurats
Enlightenment
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
42. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Constitutional Monarchy
Anti - Federalists
Enlightenment
Secularism
43. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Popular Sovereignty
Oligarchy
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
George Washington
44. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Bill of Rights
tariff
Limited Government
urban
45. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
standard of living
nullify
Republicanism
1776
46. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Anti - Federalists
Emancipation Proclamation
Articles of Confederation
House of Burgesses
47. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
14th Amendment
bias
cultural diffusion
48. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Constitutional Monarchy
Articles of Confederation
Renaissance
Thomas Jefferson
49. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Federalism
13th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Monroe doctrine
50. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Marbury v. Madison
1787
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Barriers