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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Barriers
Oligarchy
13th Amendment
level of development
2. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Barriers
Magnetic Compass
Scientific Revolution
Land Ordinance of 1785
3. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Natural Barriers
suburban
Theocracy
Industrialized
4. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Industrial Revolution
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
1066
Straits
5. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Federalist Papers
Republic
imports
Mayflower Compact
6. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Representative Democracy
Thomas Jefferson
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
7. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
House of Burgesses
Republicanism
Andean civilization
ziggurats
8. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Bubonic Plague
Declaration of Independence
Literacy Rate
Canals
9. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
level of development
Protestant Reformation
Constitutional Conv.
Literacy Rate
10. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
limited government
Suez Canal
Popular Sovereignty
Federalism
11. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
King George III
International Trade
Taxation
12. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Bubonic Plague
Scientific Revolution
Demographics
Republic
13. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Bill of Rights
Federalist Papers
Henry Ford
Bartering
14. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Constitutional Monarchy
King George III
Panama Canal
Oligarchy
15. King of England during the American Revolution.
environment
Oligarchy
Traditional economy
King George III
16. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Magnetic Compass
1066
Hammurabi
Sub - Saharan Africa .
17. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Articles of Confederation
Crusaders
Bill of Rights
Henry Ford
18. Established Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
1776
Consent of the Governed
Cotton Gin
19. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
secondary source
Checks and Balances
House of Burgesses
20. 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.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Force Bill
Cathedrals
Cuneiform
21. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
14th Amendment
Scientific Revolution
13th Amendment
Nationalism
22. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Longitude
(naval) blockade
Polytheism
Separation of Powers .
23. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Cotton Gin
market - oriented agriculture
Longitude
Federalist
24. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
secondary source
cottage industry
unalienable
Republicanism
25. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Irrigation Canals
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
1863 Emancipation Pro
suburban
26. President of the United States during the Civil War
Marbury v. Madison
Abraham Lincoln
Articles of Confederation
Checks and Balances
27. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
market - oriented agriculture
States Rights
Self Determination
28. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Absolute Monarchy
Articles of Confederation
rural
Factory System
29. 1st written constitution
English Bill of Rights
Fund. Order of Conn.
Monroe doctrine
Founding of Jamestown
30. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Nationalism
Bill of Rights
Federalism
Communism/Command Economy
31. King/queen who has unlimited power
Cuneiform
Absolute Monarchy
Suez Canal
Enlightenment
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
Winston Churchill
Bill of Rights
Middle Ages
Capitalism/Market Economy
33. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Civil War
suburban
Industrial Revolution
Humanism
34. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Limited Government
Articles of Confederation
grievance
exports
35. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Cotton Gin
Oligarchy
Mayflower Compact
George Washington
36. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
15th Amendment
federalism
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Draco
37. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Longitude
Monotheism
Nullification Crisis
King George III
38. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Draco
The Nullification Crisis
ziggurats
39. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Bill of Rights
Labor force
George Washington
Enlightenment
40. Mass production of food
Checks and Balances
Commercial Agriculture
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Thomas Jefferson
41. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
English Bill of Rights
Henry Ford
Cottage industry
primary source
42. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Republic
Articles of Confederation
43. A written plan of government for the colonies created a weak league of 13 nearly independent states in 1777. The 1st Constitution of the U.S.
Justinian
rural
Per Capita Income
Articles of Confederation
44. Government where the religious leader run the government
Cotton Gin
Theocracy
Marbury v. Madison
U.S. Constitution
45. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
suburban
Emancipation Proclamation
Federalist Papers
Silk Road
46. People who settle and live in a colony
bias
colonists
Enlightenment
1776
47. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Literacy Rate
Oligarchy
Federalist Papers
Parliament
48. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
cottage industry
Cuneiform
English Bill of Rights
Republicanism
49. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
15th Amendment
Nationalism
Subsistence agriculture
Ben Franklin
50. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
Industrial Revolution
King George III
Thomas Jefferson