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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
tariff
Justinian
Silk Road
Marbury v. Madison
2. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Nationalism
States Rights
Migration
Thomas Jefferson
3. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Limited Government
Checks and Balances
Individual Rights
George Washington
4. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
14th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
5. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Basic Needs
1215
Subsistence agriculture
States Rights
6. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Individual Rights
domestic
Bill of Rights
Representative Democracy
7. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Unconstitutional
Separation of Powers .
Federalist
Inalienable/Unalienable
8. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Separation of Powers .
Barriers
Anti - Federalists
level of development
9. Making goods out of the home
English Bill of Rights
Cottage industry
International Trade
Middle Ages
10. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
(naval) blockade
Republicanism
Factory System
unalienable
11. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Columbian Exchange
George Washington
Migration
Articles of Confederation
12. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
Columbian Exchange
Barriers
Republic
13. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Straits
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Renaissance
The Senate
14. Pride in ones country
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Nationalism
Atlantic Slave Trade
Unconstitutional
15. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
Montesquieu
subsistence agriculture
English Bill of Rights
16. Involving other countries
trade
international
George Washington
standard of living
17. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Literacy Rate
cultural diffusion
Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution
18. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Parliament
Cottage industry
urban
George Washington
19. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
imports
Republic
primary source
Labor force
20. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Magna Carta
Traditional economy
Iron Curtain
1776
21. Who opposed the Constitution?
Monroe doctrine
international
Anti - Federalists
U.S. Constitution
22. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Cathedrals
bias
Polytheism
23. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
George Washington
End of Reconstruction
ziggurats
Urban
24. Mass production of food
Marbury v. Madison
Commercial Agriculture
Cotton Gin
Infant Mortality
25. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Republicanism
Civil War 1861-1865
Republicanism
Civil War
26. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
secondary source
Direct Democracy
Checks and Balances
House of Burgesses
27. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
international
rural
Mesoamerica civilizations
Silk Road
28. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Representative Democracy
Civil War 1861-1865
Founding of Jamestown
Abe Lincoln
29. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Constitutional Conv.
Theocracy
Enlightenment
Migration
30. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Capitalism/Market Economy
Karl Marx
Life Expectancy
ziggurats
31. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Marbury v. Madison
(naval) blockade
English Bill of Rights
Federalism
32. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Mesoamerica civilizations
13th Amendment
1791
veto
33. People who settle and live in a colony
Federalism
colonists
Parliament
Bubonic Plague
34. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Henry Ford
Ben Franklin
Middle Ages
Cuneiform
35. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Limited Government
Representative democracy
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Republic
36. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Life Expectancy
Barriers
level of development
Montesquieu
37. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
Iron Curtain
Standard of living
Emancipation Proclamation
38. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Silk Road
House of Burgesses
Karl Marx
Straits
39. Belief in one god
Irrigation Canals
trade
1066
Monotheism
40. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
citizen
Unconstitutional
Capitalism/Market Economy
suburban
41. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Famine
bias
English Bill of Rights
international
42. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
bias
Justinian
Latitude
15th Amendment
43. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
The Nullification Crisis
subsistence agriculture
Anti - Federalists
44. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
1066
subsistence agriculture
Justinian
English Bill of Rights
45. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Representative Government
Treaty of Paris 1783
subsistence agriculture
Age of Reason
46. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
market - oriented agriculture
Oligarchy
U.S. Constitution
47. 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.
1787
Life Expectancy
English Bill of Rights
Industrial Revolution
48. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Industrial Revolution
1863 Emancipation Pro
bias
49. 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
Anti - Federalist
Federalism
Iron Curtain
level of development
50. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
rural
Individual Rights
George Washington