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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. President of the United States during the Civil War
States Rights
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
1791
Abraham Lincoln
2. Average number of years people live
Emancipation Proclamation
Ben Franklin
Constitutional Conv.
Life Expectancy
3. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Unconstitutional
amendment
ratify
4. Involving other countries
End of Reconstruction
Humanism
international
Indulgences
5. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Republicanism
Separation of Powers .
Factory System
Abraham Lincoln
6. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
veto
Constitutional Conv.
Capitalism/Market Economy
Force Bill
7. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Thomas Jefferson
Popular Sovereignty
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Articles of Confederation
8. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Marbury v. Madison
level of development
Nationalism
standard of living
9. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Emancipation Proclamation
citizen
Subsistence agriculture
Migration
10. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Republicanism
Articles of Confederation
Adam Smith
Federalism
11. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Cotton Gin
Emancipation Proclamation
Articles of Confederation
Suez Canal
12. Curbed States' Rights
Hammurabi
The Nullification Crisis
McCullough v. Maryland
Civil War
13. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
14th Amendment
1776
Communism/Command Economy
14. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Printing Press
95 Theses
Humanism
Nationalism
15. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Magna Carta
colonists
Age of Reason
Republicanism
16. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Federalist
subsistence agriculture
federalism
Treaty of Paris 1783
17. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Andean civilization
subsistence agriculture
Humanism
U.S. Constitution
18. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Traditional economy
Oligarchy
Draco
Bubonic Plague
19. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Urban
Republic
Plessy v. Ferguson
cottage industry
20. 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
Per Capita Income
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Separation of Powers .
Anti - Federalist
21. Mass production of food
Industrial Revolution
Protestant Reformation
Commercial Agriculture
Basic Needs
22. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Montesquieu
Totalitarianism
Industrial Revolution
Abraham Lincoln
23. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Declaration of Indepen.
International Trade
Separation of Powers
Monotheism
24. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Panama Canal
13th Amendment
Checks and Balances
Subsistence agriculture
25. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Immigration patterns
The Senate
Parliament
Mayflower Compact
26. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Individual Rights
Cotton Gin
Founding of Jamestown
Magna Carta
27. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Subsistence economy
Basic Needs
28. Belief in many gods
environment
McCullough v. Maryland
subsistence agriculture
Polytheism
29. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Treaty of Paris 1783
Consent of the Governed
14th Amendment
1863 Emancipation Pro
30. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
1215
unalienable
Age of Reason
Communism/Command Economy
31. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Fund. Order of Conn.
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
1863 Emancipation Pro
32. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
unalienable
International Trade
1215
Mayflower Compact (1620)
33. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Land Ordinance of 1785
Abraham Lincoln
Crusaders
Imperialism
34. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Thomas Jefferson
1787-1789
Civil War 1861-1865
Emancipation Proclamation
35. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
George Washington
Straits of Hormuz
Industrial Revolution
36. Established Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
95 Theses
Columbian Exchange
Republic
37. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Magna Carta
Basic Needs
Parliament
Protestant Reformation
38. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Declaration of Indepen.
Cottage industry
Straits
Panama Canal
39. 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.
Enlightenment
Winston Churchill
Adam Smith
Force Bill
40. Average income per person
Republic
Per Capita Income
Straits of Hormuz
era
41. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Columbian Exchange
Civil War
Standard of living
Mayflower Compact
42. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Articles of Confederation
Renaissance
ziggurats
George Washington
43. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Oligarchy
Constitutional Monarchy
Age of Reason
44. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Andean civilization
Magna Carta
Separation of Powers .
Thomas Jefferson
45. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Bill of Rights
Indulgences
era
Urban
46. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Civil War
13th Amendment
Latitude
Republicanism
47. 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
Silk Road
limited government
Henry Ford
Consent of the Governed
48. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Parliament
urban
Free - enterprise economic system
Land Ordinance of 1785
49. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Per Capita Income
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Straits of Hormuz
cultural diffusion
50. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Taxation
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Thomas Jefferson