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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
15th Amendment
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Direct Democracy
2. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Nationalism
Urban
environment
(naval) blockade
3. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Constitutional Monarchy
Separation of Powers .
Irrigation Canals
rural
4. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
English Bill of Rights
George Washington
Per Capita Income
Magna Carta
5. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Direct Democracy
15th Amendment
McCullough v. Maryland
Draco
6. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Absolute Monarchy
McCullough v. Maryland
Middle Ages
Marbury v. Madison
7. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Infant Mortality
Parliament
Self Determination
exports
8. To officially approve.
ratify
citizen
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
1791
9. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Industrial Revolution
suburban
Anti - Federalists
Thomas Jefferson
10. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Longitude
Migration
The Senate
Emancipation Proclamation
11. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Magnetic Compass
Consent of the Governed
Silk Road
Mayflower Compact
12. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Bill of Rights
Founding of Jamestown
Checks and Balances
Monroe doctrine
13. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Industrialized
Absolute Monarchy
Cottage industry
Unconstitutional
14. Modern Constitution
Federalism
U.S. Constitution
Age of Reason
Treaty of Paris 1783
15. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Federalist Papers
Anti - Federalists
Demographics
Limited Government
16. Complaints
Fund. Order of Conn.
Karl Marx
grievance
Thomas Jefferson
17. 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.
Representative Democracy
Nullification Crisis
primary source
Magnetic Compass
18. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
nullify
Articles of Conf.
Natural Barriers
cottage industry
19. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Constitutional Conv.
Treaty of Paris 1783
secondary source
Mesoamerica civilizations
20. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Ben Franklin
Bill of Rights
Thomas Jefferson
domestic
21. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Thomas Jefferson
Silk Road
Totalitarianism
nullify
22. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Representative Government
nullify
George Washington
Parliament
23. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
limited government
unalienable
Draco
24. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Parliament
Constitutional Monarchy
Literacy Rate
Totalitarianism
25. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
trade
Communism/Command Economy
Emancipation Proclamation
suffrage
26. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Subsistence agriculture
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Anti - Federalists
Thomas Jefferson
27. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Magnetic Compass
Subsistence economy
Separation of Powers
Abraham Lincoln
28. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Thomas Jefferson
level of development
Founding of Jamestown
29. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
veto
Plessy v. Ferguson
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
1787-1789
30. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
House of Burgesses
Declaration of Indepen.
Crusaders
Subsistence economy
31. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
English Bill of Rights
Founding of Jamestown
Emancipation Proclamation
Constitutional Conv.
32. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Magnetic Compass
Traditional economy
Federalist Papers
Constitutional Conv.
33. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Subsistence agriculture
Bill of Rights
Scientific Revolution
34. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Civil War 1861-1865
Monotheism
Magna Carta
Articles of Confederation
35. Split in the church
Migration
Karl Marx
Schism
subsistence agriculture
36. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Industrial Revolution
Humanism
(naval) blockade
Migration
37. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
Oligarchy
Totalitarianism
Labor force
38. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Self Determination
Marbury v. Madison
urban
39. 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.
Marbury v. Madison
Constitutional Conv.
Free - enterprise economic system
Mayflower Compact
40. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Justinian
1066
The Senate
Checks and Balances
41. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Mesoamerica civilizations
suffrage
Commercial Agriculture
Representative Democracy
42. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Limited Government
amendment
Republicanism
International Trade
43. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
unalienable
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Subsistence agriculture
Bill of Rights
44. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Indulgences
Declaration of Indepen.
Mesoamerica civilizations
Irrigation Canals
45. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Thomas Jefferson
Fertile Crescent
McCullough v. Maryland
secondary source
46. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Representative Democracy
14th Amendment
Enlightenment
Individual Rights
47. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
Nullification Crisis
Taxation
suffrage
Columbian Exchange
48. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Federalist Papers
Limited Government
End of Reconstruction
English Bill of Rights
49. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
primary source
veto
Cathedrals
Anti - Federalist
50. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
Industrialized
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Monotheism