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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An official change to a law or document of government.
limited government
1787-1789
amendment
Demographics
2. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
standard of living
Thomas Jefferson
13th Amendment
1215
3. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
ratify
Justinian
Popular Sovereignty
Republicanism
4. President of the United States during the Civil War
suburban
1791
Abraham Lincoln
Mayflower Compact
5. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
imports
Limited Government
Factory System
6. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Industrialization
English Bill of Rights
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Cuneiform
7. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
U.S. Constitution
Taxation
Factory System
Atlantic Slave Trade
8. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Straits
Anti - Federalists
1863 Emancipation Pro
Self Determination
9. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Industrialization
Immigration patterns
Checks and Balances
Basic Needs
10. Complaints
Direct Democracy
Totalitarianism
grievance
Atlantic Slave Trade
11. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Industrial Revolution
Cathedrals
Age of Exploration & Colonization
12. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Mayflower Compact
Life Expectancy
Protestant Reformation
Literacy Rate
13. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Declaration of Independence
Federalist
Silk Road
Bubonic Plague
14. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
George Washington
Popular Sovereignty
Schism
15. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Industrialization
Taxation
amendment
Civil War 1861-1865
16. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
The Senate
nullify
ratify
Traditional economy
17. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
1787
End of Reconstruction
Taxation
Age of Reason
18. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Draco
Inalienable/Unalienable
Protestant Reformation
1787
19. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
1863 Emancipation Pro
Representative Government
Winston Churchill
market - oriented agriculture
20. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Anti - Federalist
Separation of Powers .
bias
Treaty of Paris 1783
21. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
cottage industry
Magnetic Compass
primary source
era
22. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Ben Franklin
Monotheism
Imperialism
1863 Emancipation Pro
23. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Consent of the Governed
Industrialized
International Trade
Bill of Rights
24. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
Representative Government
1215
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
25. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
13th Amendment
Straits
King George III
market - oriented agriculture
26. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Justinian
tariff
international
27. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
English Bill of Rights
Cotton Gin
Totalitarianism
King George III
28. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Subsistence agriculture
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Panama Canal
grievance
29. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Panama Canal
1787
Subsistence agriculture
Thomas Jefferson
30. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Andean civilization
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Brown v. Board of Edu.
95 Theses
31. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
The Senate
John Locke
Republicanism
13th Amendment
32. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
George Washington
13th Amendment
Protestant Reformation
Natural Barriers
33. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republicanism
Republic
Andean civilization
95 Theses
34. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
domestic
Irrigation Canals
subsistence agriculture
35. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
English Bill of Rights
Federalist Papers
1776
Iron Curtain
36. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Nationalism
Founding of Jamestown
Renaissance
Immigration patterns
37. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
secondary source
Representative democracy
Natural Barriers
Marbury v. Madison
38. King/queen who has unlimited power
citizen
Absolute Monarchy
Free - enterprise economic system
Demographics
39. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Montesquieu
Individual Rights
End of Reconstruction
Standard of living
40. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
15th Amendment
International Trade
Force Bill
era
41. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Industrialization
Civil War
Demographics
Constitutional Monarchy
42. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Cathedrals
Free - enterprise economic system
Hammurabi
States Rights
43. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Monotheism
Individual Rights
Basic Needs
44. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Enlightenment
Treaty of Paris 1783
Winston Churchill
Ben Franklin
45. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
trade
Checks and Balances
English Bill of Rights
Theocracy
46. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Enlightenment
Mayflower Compact
colonists
Separation of Powers
47. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Popular Sovereignty
Constitutional Conv.
Factory System
1787-1789
48. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Articles of Confederation
Magnetic Compass
Crusaders
George Washington
49. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Capitalism/Market Economy
Articles of Confederation
Republicanism
International Trade
50. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
amendment
secondary source
Industrial Revolution
Abe Lincoln