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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
95 Theses
Constitutional Monarchy
Federalism
suffrage
2. Who opposed the Constitution?
Barriers
Free - enterprise economic system
Anti - Federalists
Industrialization
3. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Anti - Federalists
bias
Magnetic Compass
4. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
ziggurats
Federalism
15th Amendment
Scientific Revolution
5. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Subsistence economy
Life Expectancy
Taxation
Labor force
6. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Imperialism
Magna Carta
Polytheism
Constitutional Monarchy
7. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
Direct Democracy
Popular Sovereignty
Karl Marx
8. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Oligarchy
1066
Constitutional Conv.
Free - enterprise economic system
9. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Straits
Magna Carta
End of Reconstruction
Crusaders
10. Exchange of goods and services.
Polytheism
trade
Federalist Papers
federalism
11. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
End of Reconstruction
Columbian Exchange
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Immigration patterns
12. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
95 Theses
Traditional economy
Force Bill
Founding of Jamestown
13. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Founding of Jamestown
Justinian
English Bill of Rights
secondary source
14. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Crusaders
Silk Road
cultural diffusion
Age of Exploration & Colonization
15. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Montesquieu
15th Amendment
amendment
1787-1789
16. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Demographics
Federalist Papers
George Washington
Inalienable/Unalienable
17. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
Articles of Confederation
Representative democracy
Schism
18. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Enlightenment
Immigration patterns
Civil War
Natural Barriers
19. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Straits of Hormuz
Mayflower Compact
Enlightenment
20. A written plan of government for the colonies created a weak league of 13 nearly independent states in 1777. The 1st Constitution of the U.S.
environment
Justinian
Articles of Confederation
Silk Road
21. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
George Washington
Enlightenment
George Washington
Articles of Confederation
22. King of England during the American Revolution.
Scientific Revolution
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
King George III
rural
23. Having to do with one's own homeland
Silk Road
domestic
ratify
Popular Sovereignty
24. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
era
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Representative democracy
Hammurabi
25. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Communism/Command Economy
Limited Government
Demographics
Sub - Saharan Africa .
26. An official change to a law or document of government.
Separation of Powers .
Traditional economy
Urban
amendment
27. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
market - oriented agriculture
Monotheism
Age of Reason
Protestant Reformation
28. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Schism
exports
Thomas Jefferson
McCullough v. Maryland
29. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Imperialism
Separation of Powers
Capitalism/Market Economy
ratify
30. 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
Anti - Federalists
Columbian Exchange
Magna Carta
31. To officially approve.
ratify
Abe Lincoln
Industrialization
subsistence agriculture
32. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
15th Amendment
Monroe doctrine
standard of living
Atlantic Slave Trade
33. Complaints
grievance
Constitutional Conv.
Ben Franklin
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
34. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
1215
Demographics
Mesoamerica civilizations
Representative Government
35. 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
Sub - Saharan Africa .
international
Communism/Command Economy
Declaration of Indepen.
36. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
Republicanism
Enlightenment
English Bill of Rights
37. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
bias
Labor force
English Bill of Rights
38. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
tariff
13th Amendment
Republic
Civil War 1861-1865
39. President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Popular Sovereignty
Cuneiform
McCullough v. Maryland
40. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Magna Carta
nullify
secondary source
era
41. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
International Trade
Karl Marx
14th Amendment
Federalist Papers
42. Average income per person
George Washington
Scientific Revolution
Columbian Exchange
Per Capita Income
43. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Parliament
Bill of Rights
15th Amendment
Polytheism
44. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Middle Ages
Republicanism
Free - enterprise economic system
Fund. Order of Conn.
45. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Articles of Confederation
bias
Marbury v. Madison
imports
46. All things that surround us.
environment
Straits
Sub - Saharan Africa .
George Washington
47. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Infant Mortality
13th Amendment
Straits of Hormuz
Founding of Jamestown
48. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Polytheism
George Washington
Mesoamerica civilizations
Representative Democracy
49. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Federalism
Labor force
suffrage
exports
50. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
subsistence agriculture
domestic
Plessy v. Ferguson
Straits