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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Renaissance
market - oriented agriculture
colonists
Traditional economy
2. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
environment
Cathedrals
Articles of Confederation
federalism
3. People who settle and live in a colony
George Washington
International Trade
Industrial Revolution
colonists
4. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Scientific Revolution
limited government
Bill of Rights
Straits of Hormuz
5. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
1863 Emancipation Pro
Cottage industry
Free - enterprise economic system
Magna Carta
6. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Abraham Lincoln
Mayflower Compact (1620)
1863 Emancipation Pro
Capitalism/Market Economy
7. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Land Ordinance of 1785
Limited Government
Thomas Jefferson
primary source
8. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Limited Government
rural
Mayflower Compact
international
9. Curbed States' Rights
Federalism
Civil War
Suez Canal
McCullough v. Maryland
10. 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
Ben Franklin
Columbian Exchange
Federalist Papers
Printing Press
11. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
The Nullification Crisis
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Age of Reason
12. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
States Rights
Bill of Rights
Fertile Crescent
13. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Taxation
The Senate
Self Determination
Secularism
14. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Unconstitutional
Founding of Jamestown
Literacy Rate
15. Who opposed the Constitution?
U.S. Constitution
Anti - Federalists
Constitutional Conv.
Popular Sovereignty
16. Tax on imports and exports.
Articles of Confederation
tariff
suburban
Emancipation Proclamation
17. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Ben Franklin
Polytheism
Urban
15th Amendment
18. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Demographics
citizen
Marbury v. Madison
19. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Draco
Republicanism
McCullough v. Maryland
20. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
exports
Henry Ford
Industrialized
Thomas Jefferson
21. Exchange of goods and services.
Protestant Reformation
standard of living
Republicanism
trade
22. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Renaissance
exports
Per Capita Income
Subsistence economy
23. Officially ended the American Revolution
Infant Mortality
bias
tariff
Treaty of Paris 1783
24. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Renaissance
Federalism
era
13th Amendment
25. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Representative Democracy
Draco
Representative democracy
Emancipation Proclamation
26. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
Urban
Enlightenment
Marbury v. Madison
27. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Taxation
Magnetic Compass
Famine
U.S. Constitution
28. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
George Washington
Nationalism
Henry Ford
Abe Lincoln
29. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Printing Press
Civil War
Self Determination
Popular Sovereignty
30. Member of a country.
Federalism
English Bill of Rights
Straits of Hormuz
citizen
31. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
1787-1789
Traditional economy
13th Amendment
Cuneiform
32. Period in Europe that began after the fall of the Roman Empire Characterized by feudalism - Roman Catholic Church was the unifier of the age with more power than Kings/Lords
Articles of Conf.
citizen
Middle Ages
13th Amendment
33. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Literacy Rate
cultural diffusion
13th Amendment
Inalienable/Unalienable
34. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
Republicanism
Individual Rights
Checks and Balances
English Bill of Rights
35. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
citizen
14th Amendment
Marbury v. Madison
ziggurats
36. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Imperialism
Latitude
Articles of Confederation
Bubonic Plague
37. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Civil War 1861-1865
1791
Republic
Bill of Rights
38. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Winston Churchill
standard of living
Republicanism
citizen
39. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Infant Mortality
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Migration
House of Burgesses
40. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
suffrage
Civil War
Secularism
Self Determination
41. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
English Bill of Rights
Renaissance
Enlightenment
42. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Constitutional Conv.
Taxation
Federalist Papers
43. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Federalist Papers
Magna Carta
rural
44. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
international
Justinian
The Nullification Crisis
Consent of the Governed
45. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
End of Reconstruction
citizen
ratify
George Washington
46. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Ben Franklin
King George III
Cotton Gin
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
47. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Mesoamerica civilizations
George Washington
Age of Exploration & Colonization
grievance
48. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
domestic
Demographics
Fund. Order of Conn.
49. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
limited government
Cuneiform
Emancipation Proclamation
Straits
50. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Longitude
Immigration patterns
Anti - Federalist