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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Labor force
Representative democracy
Winston Churchill
Fund. Order of Conn.
2. King of England during the American Revolution.
Thomas Jefferson
King George III
environment
Representative Government
3. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
ziggurats
cultural diffusion
Cathedrals
Mayflower Compact
4. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
Winston Churchill
Limited Government
Unconstitutional
5. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Individual Rights
trade
Printing Press
nullify
6. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
14th Amendment
trade
House of Burgesses
Straits of Hormuz
7. People who settle and live in a colony
Sub - Saharan Africa .
tariff
colonists
Declaration of Independence
8. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
level of development
Enlightenment
imports
Protestant Reformation
9. Established Judicial Review.
Demographics
Founding of Jamestown
Marbury v. Madison
Subsistence economy
10. Complaints
End of Reconstruction
Mayflower Compact
grievance
Mesoamerica civilizations
11. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Federalist Papers
John Locke
Magna Carta
12. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Republicanism
Articles of Confederation
George Washington
Theocracy
13. 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
Columbian Exchange
Constitutional Monarchy
Republicanism
Andean civilization
14. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
1787-1789
Traditional economy
Marbury v. Madison
Barriers
15. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Monroe doctrine
Atlantic Slave Trade
States Rights
Mayflower Compact
16. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
international
George Washington
House of Burgesses
Infant Mortality
17. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
95 Theses
Longitude
Constitutional Conv.
Individual Rights
18. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
colonists
subsistence agriculture
Bill of Rights
Articles of Conf.
19. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
primary source
Ben Franklin
Capitalism/Market Economy
Basic Needs
20. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Oligarchy
Literacy Rate
Nullification Crisis
Indulgences
21. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Factory System
George Washington
Hammurabi
22. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Subsistence agriculture
1066
Republicanism
Fund. Order of Conn.
23. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Protestant Reformation
Representative democracy
Infant Mortality
Constitutional Conv.
24. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Limited Government
Federalist Papers
Life Expectancy
English Bill of Rights
25. King/queen who has unlimited power
Unconstitutional
Absolute Monarchy
Humanism
15th Amendment
26. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Draco
Subsistence agriculture
Cathedrals
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
27. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Immigration patterns
Capitalism/Market Economy
Nullification Crisis
Age of Exploration & Colonization
28. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
level of development
Direct Democracy
Cuneiform
Scientific Revolution
29. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
exports
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Republicanism
1215
30. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Limited Government
Founding of Jamestown
Andean civilization
31. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Fertile Crescent
George Washington
15th Amendment
13th Amendment
32. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Suez Canal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalism
Bill of Rights
33. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Renaissance
Inalienable/Unalienable
Winston Churchill
rural
34. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Barriers
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Constitutional Conv.
Atlantic Slave Trade
35. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
English Bill of Rights
Canals
Federalist Papers
Mayflower Compact
36. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Ben Franklin
Traditional economy
Bill of Rights
Secularism
37. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Magna Carta
Emancipation Proclamation
Straits of Hormuz
Constitutional Conv.
38. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Limited Government
Republicanism
Bill of Rights
Checks and Balances
39. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Printing Press
Magna Carta
Federalism
Mayflower Compact
40. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Polytheism
McCullough v. Maryland
suburban
level of development
41. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Iron Curtain
urban
secondary source
Civil War 1861-1865
42. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
1791
Crusaders
urban
15th Amendment
43. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Longitude
Barriers
George Washington
End of Reconstruction
44. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Bill of Rights
subsistence agriculture
Bubonic Plague
Magnetic Compass
45. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
environment
urban
cultural diffusion
Winston Churchill
46. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
U.S. Constitution
1863 Emancipation Pro
cottage industry
limited government
47. All things that surround us.
environment
trade
Land Ordinance of 1785
Thomas Jefferson
48. 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.
Republic
Articles of Conf.
Industrialization
Checks and Balances
49. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
ziggurats
House of Burgesses
Henry Ford
domestic
50. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Demographics
Mayflower Compact
Totalitarianism
English Bill of Rights