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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Fertile Crescent
Monotheism
Life Expectancy
George Washington
2. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Urban
Articles of Confederation
Marbury v. Madison
grievance
3. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Treaty of Paris 1783
Capitalism/Market Economy
Separation of Powers
international
4. 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.
domestic
Force Bill
Schism
Checks and Balances
5. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Humanism
The Senate
ratify
Federalist Papers
6. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
unalienable
Factory System
Monotheism
Andean civilization
7. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Mayflower Compact (1620)
1791
Montesquieu
Straits
8. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
domestic
Barriers
Nationalism
Representative democracy
9. First organizing of 13 colonies.
international
John Locke
English Bill of Rights
Articles of Conf.
10. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
Constitutional Monarchy
Fertile Crescent
Thomas Jefferson
11. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Communism/Command Economy
Totalitarianism
15th Amendment
Factory System
12. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Longitude
imports
Magna Carta
Bill of Rights
13. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Civil War
Migration
End of Reconstruction
Justinian
14. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
suburban
Schism
Capitalism/Market Economy
15. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Canals
Free - enterprise economic system
Middle Ages
95 Theses
16. 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
Barriers
Columbian Exchange
Magna Carta
Constitutional Monarchy
17. Government where the religious leader run the government
Force Bill
Mesoamerica civilizations
Printing Press
Theocracy
18. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Representative Democracy
Adam Smith
Abe Lincoln
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
19. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
suburban
Fertile Crescent
Henry Ford
Silk Road
20. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Federalism
Individual Rights
Adam Smith
Basic Needs
21. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
international
Direct Democracy
Scientific Revolution
Imperialism
22. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Life Expectancy
1215
Anti - Federalist
Thomas Jefferson
23. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
1066
Mayflower Compact
13th Amendment
24. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Magna Carta
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Age of Reason
Canals
25. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Civil War
Standard of living
Iron Curtain
Factory System
26. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
House of Burgesses
Bubonic Plague
environment
international
27. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Thomas Jefferson
Magna Carta
1215
Irrigation Canals
28. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
(naval) blockade
Straits of Hormuz
15th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
29. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
ratify
Theocracy
Popular Sovereignty
Bubonic Plague
30. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Crusaders
Ben Franklin
Industrialization
Anti - Federalist
31. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Marbury v. Madison
Nullification Crisis
Magna Carta
Articles of Conf.
32. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
George Washington
Bartering
Consent of the Governed
Federalist Papers
33. Split in the church
McCullough v. Maryland
citizen
Schism
Scientific Revolution
34. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
suffrage
Montesquieu
Standard of living
rural
35. King of England during the American Revolution.
Thomas Jefferson
King George III
Silk Road
Articles of Confederation
36. 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.
Free - enterprise economic system
Land Ordinance of 1785
Henry Ford
95 Theses
37. Exchange of goods and services.
George Washington
trade
14th Amendment
suffrage
38. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Industrial Revolution
1776
Nationalism
1787
39. Tax on imports and exports.
1791
Renaissance
tariff
Crusaders
40. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Civil War
cultural diffusion
Fertile Crescent
limited government
41. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.
Secularism
1787
Columbian Exchange
exports
42. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
House of Burgesses
Hammurabi
international
43. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Bill of Rights
Absolute Monarchy
15th Amendment
Oligarchy
44. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Nationalism
Per Capita Income
Individual Rights
Totalitarianism
45. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Parliament
ratify
Enlightenment
Civil War
46. An official change to a law or document of government.
Constitutional Monarchy
amendment
Printing Press
The Senate
47. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Subsistence economy
Life Expectancy
Ben Franklin
Consent of the Governed
48. Modern Constitution
ratify
U.S. Constitution
Ben Franklin
Urban
49. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Individual Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785
John Locke
Plessy v. Ferguson
50. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Natural Barriers
environment
Federalism
Ben Franklin