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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Bartering
1787
Migration
Protestant Reformation
2. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
urban
Limited Government
Migration
3. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Latitude
Declaration of Indepen.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
grievance
4. A government that elects its leaders
Magna Carta
Magna Carta
Federalist Papers
Republic
5. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Magna Carta
Emancipation Proclamation
The Nullification Crisis
primary source
6. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Theocracy
Famine
Self Determination
Draco
7. Making goods out of the home
14th Amendment
Cottage industry
Marbury v. Madison
Republicanism
8. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Thomas Jefferson
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
suburban
secondary source
9. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Individual Rights
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Abe Lincoln
rural
10. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Printing Press
1787
Civil War
1066
11. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
1791
The Senate
urban
Self Determination
12. This is also referred to as a city
Parliament
Immigration patterns
Urban
Standard of living
13. King of England during the American Revolution.
Iron Curtain
John Locke
Taxation
King George III
14. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Magna Carta
Articles of Confederation
U.S. Constitution
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.
Representative democracy
Free - enterprise economic system
Monotheism
Humanism
16. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe doctrine
Sub - Saharan Africa .
amendment
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
17. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Infant Mortality
The Senate
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Consent of the Governed
18. Belief in one god
14th Amendment
Monotheism
Cuneiform
Totalitarianism
19. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Commercial Agriculture
George Washington
grievance
20. Tax on imports and exports.
Subsistence agriculture
Famine
Draco
tariff
21. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Traditional economy
amendment
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Bubonic Plague
22. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Abe Lincoln
rural
Civil War 1861-1865
Industrialized
23. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Enlightenment
Magnetic Compass
Representative Government
Articles of Confederation
24. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Civil War
Natural Barriers
Magna Carta
Cathedrals
25. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
The Senate
Representative Government
Declaration of Independence
Self Determination
26. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Declaration of Independence
Panama Canal
Individual Rights
Brown v. Board of Edu.
27. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Popular Sovereignty
Immigration patterns
King George III
era
28. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
Republicanism
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Communism/Command Economy
29. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Marbury v. Madison
Irrigation Canals
Popular Sovereignty
30. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Sub - Saharan Africa .
McCullough v. Maryland
Enlightenment
14th Amendment
31. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Republicanism
International Trade
Humanism
Suez Canal
32. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
15th Amendment
Famine
colonists
McCullough v. Maryland
33. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Nullification Crisis
13th Amendment
Cathedrals
Justinian
34. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
urban
Barriers
Draco
Mesoamerica civilizations
35. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Declaration of Indepen.
Self Determination
Checks and Balances
Cottage industry
36. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Fund. Order of Conn.
Straits
Thomas Jefferson
Communism/Command Economy
37. Mass production of food
15th Amendment
Crusaders
Monroe doctrine
Commercial Agriculture
38. First representative assembly in American
Treaty of Paris 1783
1215
House of Burgesses
14th Amendment
39. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Thomas Jefferson
veto
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
1787-1789
40. Having to do with one's own homeland
rural
Bubonic Plague
Magna Carta
domestic
41. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
Middle Ages
Migration
market - oriented agriculture
42. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Limited Government
Industrialized
Sub - Saharan Africa .
43. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Declaration of Indepen.
urban
tariff
44. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Montesquieu
Republic
Thomas Jefferson
Indulgences
45. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
English Bill of Rights
George Washington
ziggurats
Famine
46. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Commercial Agriculture
Standard of living
Factory System
Taxation
47. President of the United States during the Civil War
Latitude
Cathedrals
Secularism
Abraham Lincoln
48. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
English Bill of Rights
imports
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Immigration patterns
49. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
1787
Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers
international
50. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
(naval) blockade
End of Reconstruction
95 Theses
Bill of Rights