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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Industrial Revolution
Federalist
Republic
Middle Ages
2. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Articles of Conf.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
veto
Emancipation Proclamation
3. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Secularism
Founding of Jamestown
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Basic Needs
4. 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.
Natural Barriers
Cuneiform
John Locke
Free - enterprise economic system
5. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Karl Marx
John Locke
Constitutional Conv.
standard of living
6. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
Silk Road
Subsistence economy
The Senate
7. All things that surround us.
Natural Barriers
Fertile Crescent
Montesquieu
environment
8. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
1215
Thomas Jefferson
1791
Renaissance
9. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Parliament
George Washington
Bartering
Articles of Confederation
10. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Articles of Confederation
Taxation
Federalism
Urban
11. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Plessy v. Ferguson
1791
Life Expectancy
urban
12. Established Judicial Review.
Totalitarianism
Republic
Basic Needs
Marbury v. Madison
13. Member of a country.
citizen
Civil War
Marbury v. Madison
1787-1789
14. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Literacy Rate
U.S. Constitution
Constitutional Conv.
Middle Ages
15. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Oligarchy
International Trade
Mesoamerica civilizations
Civil War
16. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
1791
Secularism
English Bill of Rights
suburban
17. 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.
Federalist Papers
Panama Canal
Cathedrals
Checks and Balances
18. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Constitutional Conv.
The Nullification Crisis
Bill of Rights
19. 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
Republic
domestic
Demographics
Communism/Command Economy
20. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
1776
Factory System
The Nullification Crisis
George Washington
21. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
Age of Reason
Republicanism
Standard of living
22. Curbed States' Rights
Totalitarianism
Straits of Hormuz
McCullough v. Maryland
Separation of Powers
23. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Mesoamerica civilizations
Traditional economy
Mayflower Compact
24. Belief in one god
Anti - Federalists
unalienable
Monotheism
Mesoamerica civilizations
25. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Marbury v. Madison
Magna Carta
international
Civil War
26. Officially ended the American Revolution
Emancipation Proclamation
market - oriented agriculture
Treaty of Paris 1783
Direct Democracy
27. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Justinian
Industrial Revolution
Traditional economy
28. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Justinian
Civil War
Middle Ages
Abe Lincoln
29. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
House of Burgesses
Urban
Thomas Jefferson
Longitude
30. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
cottage industry
Unconstitutional
The Nullification Crisis
Straits of Hormuz
31. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Infant Mortality
Articles of Confederation
14th Amendment
Force Bill
32. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Columbian Exchange
Factory System
95 Theses
Age of Exploration & Colonization
33. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
secondary source
Atlantic Slave Trade
Articles of Conf.
34. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Representative Democracy
Imperialism
Bill of Rights
35. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Magnetic Compass
Parliament
standard of living
Bill of Rights
36. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
Middle Ages
Civil War
Montesquieu
37. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
Traditional economy
Indulgences
bias
38. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
House of Burgesses
Free - enterprise economic system
Life Expectancy
Ben Franklin
39. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
States Rights
Self Determination
George Washington
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
40. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Theocracy
Taxation
Scientific Revolution
Republicanism
41. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Humanism
limited government
Popular Sovereignty
42. Average number of years people live
Life Expectancy
14th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Edu.
95 Theses
43. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Famine
Constitutional Conv.
Cotton Gin
Individual Rights
44. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Henry Ford
Labor force
Secularism
Montesquieu
45. Economic thinker that developed communism
Karl Marx
Representative democracy
Commercial Agriculture
Popular Sovereignty
46. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
George Washington
Bill of Rights
Cathedrals
Separation of Powers .
47. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Age of Reason
48. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
trade
Limited Government
suburban
Separation of Powers .
49. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
grievance
The Nullification Crisis
Barriers
Mayflower Compact
50. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Henry Ford
Self Determination
Emancipation Proclamation
suffrage