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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Monroe doctrine
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Adam Smith
Magna Carta
2. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
unalienable
Separation of Powers .
domestic
standard of living
3. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Marbury v. Madison
standard of living
Limited Government
House of Burgesses
4. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Cathedrals
Standard of living
primary source
suburban
5. Who opposed the Constitution?
States Rights
Anti - Federalists
Middle Ages
exports
6. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
International Trade
Karl Marx
Popular Sovereignty
Constitutional Monarchy
7. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
veto
Representative Democracy
Polytheism
8. Mass production of food
Nationalism
Limited Government
Direct Democracy
Commercial Agriculture
9. All things that surround us.
Latitude
veto
environment
Direct Democracy
10. 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.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Scientific Revolution
Civil War
Checks and Balances
11. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
95 Theses
Federalist Papers
Imperialism
John Locke
12. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Force Bill
Separation of Powers
suffrage
bias
13. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Thomas Jefferson
Monroe doctrine
John Locke
Industrialized
14. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Plessy v. Ferguson
Unconstitutional
Secularism
Fund. Order of Conn.
15. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
(naval) blockade
Factory System
Magna Carta
16. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Federalist
Traditional economy
Unconstitutional
Emancipation Proclamation
17. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
suburban
Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
18. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Demographics
Thomas Jefferson
unalienable
Natural Barriers
19. Complaints
Subsistence agriculture
exports
grievance
Thomas Jefferson
20. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Age of Reason
secondary source
cultural diffusion
13th Amendment
21. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Nullification Crisis
Land Ordinance of 1785
Basic Needs
Montesquieu
22. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
Industrial Revolution
Marbury v. Madison
Articles of Conf.
23. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Infant Mortality
subsistence agriculture
Force Bill
international
24. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Draco
ziggurats
Separation of Powers
George Washington
25. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Mayflower Compact
George Washington
The Nullification Crisis
Bill of Rights
26. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Suez Canal
Republicanism
Articles of Confederation
Industrialized
27. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Land Ordinance of 1785
domestic
George Washington
Magnetic Compass
28. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Longitude
Free - enterprise economic system
Basic Needs
Articles of Confederation
29. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Free - enterprise economic system
trade
bias
Marbury v. Madison
30. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
nullify
Anti - Federalist
Industrial Revolution
31. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Henry Ford
Cathedrals
era
King George III
32. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Labor force
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
(naval) blockade
15th Amendment
33. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
Checks and Balances
1066
limited government
34. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Civil War
Cottage industry
Thomas Jefferson
Columbian Exchange
35. President of the United States during the Civil War
Protestant Reformation
Abraham Lincoln
Magna Carta
Humanism
36. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Bubonic Plague
Magnetic Compass
Hammurabi
Articles of Confederation
37. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
limited government
Emancipation Proclamation
Industrialized
Bill of Rights
38. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Karl Marx
urban
Justinian
Monotheism
39. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Articles of Conf.
Founding of Jamestown
(naval) blockade
Bill of Rights
40. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Thomas Jefferson
Fertile Crescent
Montesquieu
House of Burgesses
41. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
rural
Separation of Powers
Imperialism
Crusaders
42. 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.
primary source
Individual Rights
Bartering
international
43. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Civil War
Imperialism
95 Theses
44. Involving other countries
Subsistence economy
international
English Bill of Rights
level of development
45. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
amendment
1776
Marbury v. Madison
Protestant Reformation
46. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
rural
Industrialized
Inalienable/Unalienable
Ben Franklin
47. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Theocracy
Humanism
secondary source
48. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
14th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Urban
49. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Abe Lincoln
amendment
Longitude
Literacy Rate
50. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
1215
Renaissance
Enlightenment
trade