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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Republic
Subsistence economy
Unconstitutional
Mesoamerica civilizations
2. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Inalienable/Unalienable
14th Amendment
suffrage
Indulgences
3. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Theocracy
Bartering
Enlightenment
Mesoamerica civilizations
4. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
citizen
Declaration of Indepen.
Longitude
Per Capita Income
5. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
ziggurats
Federalist Papers
Emancipation Proclamation
6. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
Andean civilization
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Monotheism
7. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Atlantic Slave Trade
suburban
Consent of the Governed
Iron Curtain
8. Belief in many gods
secondary source
Polytheism
Land Ordinance of 1785
1863 Emancipation Pro
9. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Mayflower Compact
Limited Government
grievance
End of Reconstruction
10. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
veto
Individual Rights
The Senate
U.S. Constitution
11. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Land Ordinance of 1785
Indulgences
limited government
12. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Oligarchy
Cotton Gin
Immigration patterns
13th Amendment
13. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Individual Rights
ratify
Nullification Crisis
Direct Democracy
14. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
standard of living
Andean civilization
1791
Treaty of Paris 1783
15. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
market - oriented agriculture
Marbury v. Madison
Republicanism
English Bill of Rights
16. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Magnetic Compass
Treaty of Paris 1783
standard of living
Thomas Jefferson
17. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Land Ordinance of 1785
Emancipation Proclamation
Atlantic Slave Trade
Separation of Powers .
18. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Individual Rights
Henry Ford
Justinian
1863 Emancipation Pro
19. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
veto
Imperialism
Declaration of Indepen.
Popular Sovereignty
20. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Republicanism
King George III
Humanism
Mayflower Compact
21. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
cottage industry
Basic Needs
Middle Ages
House of Burgesses
22. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Monotheism
Migration
Federalism
Draco
23. 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
Theocracy
Absolute Monarchy
grievance
Middle Ages
24. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
level of development
Infant Mortality
Totalitarianism
Irrigation Canals
25. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Draco
Representative Government
Representative Democracy
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
26. 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.
nullify
Fund. Order of Conn.
1787
citizen
27. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
veto
primary source
Straits
Taxation
28. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
House of Burgesses
Emancipation Proclamation
Henry Ford
Individual Rights
29. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
colonists
era
Indulgences
Printing Press
30. Involving other countries
Enlightenment
international
Direct Democracy
Industrial Revolution
31. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Hammurabi
Absolute Monarchy
Subsistence agriculture
International Trade
32. Mountains - deserts and oceans
U.S. Constitution
Federalism
Silk Road
Natural Barriers
33. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Emancipation Proclamation
Land Ordinance of 1785
Winston Churchill
Individual Rights
34. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
House of Burgesses
Andean civilization
Adam Smith
Industrialization
35. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
Life Expectancy
Anti - Federalist
U.S. Constitution
36. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
ratify
primary source
federalism
37. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Direct Democracy
Separation of Powers
Articles of Conf.
Articles of Confederation
38. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
cultural diffusion
Justinian
level of development
39. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Monroe doctrine
Cottage industry
Traditional economy
Federalism
40. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Self Determination
Anti - Federalist
Marbury v. Madison
(naval) blockade
41. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Articles of Confederation
1776
English Bill of Rights
Karl Marx
42. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Free - enterprise economic system
level of development
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Straits of Hormuz
43. Officially ended the American Revolution
Declaration of Independence
Mayflower Compact
Bubonic Plague
Treaty of Paris 1783
44. 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 .
Individual Rights
U.S. Constitution
Federalist Papers
45. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Monotheism
Industrial Revolution
Karl Marx
Cathedrals
46. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Land Ordinance of 1785
Articles of Confederation
Separation of Powers .
15th Amendment
47. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
tariff
The Senate
End of Reconstruction
Emancipation Proclamation
48. Mass production of food
Commercial Agriculture
13th Amendment
Industrial Revolution
Cotton Gin
49. These slow down movement/migration
Atlantic Slave Trade
Demographics
Barriers
Capitalism/Market Economy
50. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Subsistence agriculture
suffrage
1787
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut