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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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1. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
13th Amendment
bias
standard of living
Protestant Reformation
2. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
John Locke
ziggurats
Direct Democracy
Checks and Balances
3. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
Representative Government
Direct Democracy
suffrage
4. 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
English Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers
13th Amendment
5. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
suburban
Individual Rights
Standard of living
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
6. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Labor force
limited government
Brown v. Board of Edu.
14th Amendment
7. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
Declaration of Independence
Imperialism
Theocracy
8. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Oligarchy
Polytheism
Absolute Monarchy
Totalitarianism
9. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Life Expectancy
Enlightenment
Founding of Jamestown
14th Amendment
10. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
amendment
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Polytheism
exports
11. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Bill of Rights
Urban
States Rights
Printing Press
12. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Natural Barriers
exports
Mayflower Compact
Federalist Papers
13. Officially ended the American Revolution
Founding of Jamestown
Mesoamerica civilizations
Treaty of Paris 1783
Plessy v. Ferguson
14. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
cottage industry
Unconstitutional
Cathedrals
Thomas Jefferson
15. 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.
Cuneiform
Columbian Exchange
Checks and Balances
Free - enterprise economic system
16. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Bill of Rights
environment
Mesoamerica civilizations
17. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Mayflower Compact
Enlightenment
grievance
citizen
18. 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
Polytheism
Self Determination
Individual Rights
Anti - Federalist
19. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Oligarchy
Silk Road
Humanism
Force Bill
20. Average number of years people live
Theocracy
Abraham Lincoln
Life Expectancy
rural
21. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Individual Rights
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalist Papers
Civil War 1861-1865
22. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Fund. Order of Conn.
Cotton Gin
Nationalism
George Washington
23. First representative assembly in American
urban
House of Burgesses
Suez Canal
Subsistence agriculture
24. Belief in one god
Monotheism
Age of Reason
Land Ordinance of 1785
Popular Sovereignty
25. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Separation of Powers .
Limited Government
Land Ordinance of 1785
English Bill of Rights
26. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Bartering
1776
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Standard of living
27. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Industrial Revolution
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
King George III
Mayflower Compact
28. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
Latitude
13th Amendment
Representative democracy
29. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
ratify
Abraham Lincoln
Land Ordinance of 1785
Cuneiform
30. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
cottage industry
Free - enterprise economic system
Federalist Papers
Hammurabi
31. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
Bill of Rights
trade
95 Theses
32. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Articles of Confederation
Industrialization
Adam Smith
33. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Traditional economy
Suez Canal
Magna Carta
Subsistence economy
34. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Ben Franklin
Civil War
Bubonic Plague
Thomas Jefferson
35. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
market - oriented agriculture
Articles of Confederation
colonists
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
36. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Articles of Conf.
Bill of Rights
Adam Smith
37. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Migration
The Senate
13th Amendment
House of Burgesses
38. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
1787
15th Amendment
Commercial Agriculture
Parliament
39. 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.
Per Capita Income
U.S. Constitution
Checks and Balances
Nationalism
40. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Nullification Crisis
imports
Subsistence agriculture
1776
41. Mass production of food
Commercial Agriculture
Emancipation Proclamation
Infant Mortality
Latitude
42. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Constitutional Conv.
Scientific Revolution
Urban
Fund. Order of Conn.
43. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
federalism
Absolute Monarchy
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Thomas Jefferson
44. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Oligarchy
Crusaders
Taxation
Secularism
45. Separate is not equal in public Schools
1787-1789
Literacy Rate
Infant Mortality
Brown v. Board of Edu.
46. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Oligarchy
Representative Democracy
Declaration of Indepen.
subsistence agriculture
47. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Direct Democracy
Nullification Crisis
Famine
48. An official change to a law or document of government.
amendment
Declaration of Independence
Emancipation Proclamation
Bill of Rights
49. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Industrialization
Monotheism
Republicanism
Secularism
50. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
cultural diffusion
Irrigation Canals
Bartering
Traditional economy
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