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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
1787-1789
1776
Fund. Order of Conn.
Limited Government
2. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Federalist Papers
1787-1789
Fund. Order of Conn.
Magna Carta
3. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Declaration of Independence
13th Amendment
Checks and Balances
States Rights
4. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
exports
Imperialism
Hammurabi
5. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Enlightenment
Factory System
English Bill of Rights
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
6. Making goods out of the home
Suez Canal
Fund. Order of Conn.
Cottage industry
14th Amendment
7. 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
Monotheism
Communism/Command Economy
Imperialism
Cathedrals
8. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Iron Curtain
(naval) blockade
U.S. Constitution
standard of living
9. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Founding of Jamestown
Limited Government
nullify
cultural diffusion
10. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Abe Lincoln
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Federalism
U.S. Constitution
11. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Magnetic Compass
primary source
Humanism
Subsistence economy
12. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Representative Democracy
Popular Sovereignty
citizen
Abraham Lincoln
13. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
federalism
Communism/Command Economy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Age of Exploration & Colonization
14. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Cotton Gin
English Bill of Rights
standard of living
Immigration patterns
15. Belief in many gods
States Rights
Polytheism
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Nullification Crisis
16. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Humanism
Polytheism
standard of living
Separation of Powers .
17. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Federalism
Natural Barriers
Marbury v. Madison
Indulgences
18. 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.
Factory System
Popular Sovereignty
Polytheism
primary source
19. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Republicanism
citizen
20. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Demographics
federalism
tariff
Mayflower Compact
21. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Declaration of Independence
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Schism
Printing Press
22. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Atlantic Slave Trade
Literacy Rate
George Washington
Printing Press
23. King/queen who has unlimited power
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Immigration patterns
Absolute Monarchy
Abraham Lincoln
24. All things that surround us.
environment
era
1787-1789
Mesoamerica civilizations
25. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Totalitarianism
Cathedrals
Capitalism/Market Economy
colonists
26. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
1066
Silk Road
Suez Canal
Declaration of Independence
27. People who settle and live in a colony
Irrigation Canals
Natural Barriers
colonists
Direct Democracy
28. 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.
Magna Carta
Free - enterprise economic system
Checks and Balances
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
29. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Enlightenment
Bubonic Plague
Bill of Rights
Individual Rights
30. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Industrial Revolution
limited government
Humanism
Civil War
31. Average income per person
Per Capita Income
amendment
rural
Republic
32. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalist Papers
George Washington
veto
33. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Industrialization
Civil War 1861-1865
Representative Democracy
Bill of Rights
34. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
Republic
Totalitarianism
Commercial Agriculture
35. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
1787
environment
Irrigation Canals
Factory System
36. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Federalism
ziggurats
Marbury v. Madison
Force Bill
37. Mass production of food
Cotton Gin
Commercial Agriculture
Articles of Conf.
Popular Sovereignty
38. An official change to a law or document of government.
amendment
Totalitarianism
Columbian Exchange
urban
39. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
House of Burgesses
veto
international
Longitude
40. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
grievance
primary source
Capitalism/Market Economy
Bubonic Plague
41. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
bias
Separation of Powers .
unalienable
Plessy v. Ferguson
42. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Emancipation Proclamation
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Anti - Federalists
Abe Lincoln
43. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
(naval) blockade
Bill of Rights
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Enlightenment
44. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
15th Amendment
domestic
Direct Democracy
Standard of living
45. Complaints
The Senate
Migration
grievance
suffrage
46. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Demographics
Federalist
Panama Canal
1787
47. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Land Ordinance of 1785
domestic
Declaration of Independence
Mayflower Compact (1620)
48. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Edu.
13th Amendment
49. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
1787
Mesoamerica civilizations
Federalist Papers
50. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
King George III
End of Reconstruction
Individual Rights
citizen