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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
Mesoamerica civilizations
nullify
14th Amendment
Magnetic Compass
2. President of the United States during the Civil War
Inalienable/Unalienable
House of Burgesses
Abraham Lincoln
13th Amendment
3. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Representative democracy
Articles of Conf.
English Bill of Rights
Crusaders
4. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Enlightenment
Federalist Papers
Industrial Revolution
The Senate
5. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
veto
Indulgences
Representative Democracy
Subsistence economy
6. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.
Emancipation Proclamation
Force Bill
ratify
Mayflower Compact
7. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Constitutional Conv.
Standard of living
Protestant Reformation
nullify
8. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
Thomas Jefferson
Fertile Crescent
1215
9. Making goods out of the home
Self Determination
Cottage industry
Latitude
Indulgences
10. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Immigration patterns
Bubonic Plague
Articles of Conf.
Theocracy
11. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Montesquieu
Barriers
Life Expectancy
Separation of Powers .
12. Involving other countries
Cottage industry
Popular Sovereignty
international
Republic
13. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Migration
Crusaders
Irrigation Canals
Monotheism
14. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Checks and Balances
secondary source
Cotton Gin
Industrialization
15. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
1863 Emancipation Pro
suffrage
Separation of Powers .
Brown v. Board of Edu.
16. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Declaration of Independence
Federalism
Founding of Jamestown
Factory System
17. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Republic
veto
exports
bias
18. Average income per person
Latitude
Individual Rights
Nullification Crisis
Per Capita Income
19. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Plessy v. Ferguson
1215
Anti - Federalist
20. 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
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Magnetic Compass
Treaty of Paris 1783
Silk Road
21. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Articles of Confederation
Cotton Gin
George Washington
secondary source
22. Belief in one god
Monotheism
veto
Abe Lincoln
Representative democracy
23. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
English Bill of Rights
Founding of Jamestown
Federalist
Hammurabi
24. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Free - enterprise economic system
End of Reconstruction
unalienable
Republicanism
25. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
George Washington
Representative democracy
Totalitarianism
Absolute Monarchy
26. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Enlightenment
Longitude
Totalitarianism
(naval) blockade
27. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Silk Road
Traditional economy
Middle Ages
Individual Rights
28. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Straits of Hormuz
domestic
trade
Parliament
29. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
(naval) blockade
ziggurats
exports
Basic Needs
30. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Representative democracy
Emancipation Proclamation
Straits of Hormuz
Popular Sovereignty
31. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Self Determination
Irrigation Canals
Urban
veto
32. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
13th Amendment
Straits of Hormuz
domestic
Constitutional Monarchy
33. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Republicanism
environment
level of development
colonists
34. To officially approve.
suffrage
ratify
Suez Canal
Enlightenment
35. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
15th Amendment
Basic Needs
Individual Rights
36. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
House of Burgesses
1776
Monroe doctrine
Schism
37. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Canals
Secularism
Representative Government
Communism/Command Economy
38. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Representative democracy
Federalist
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Separation of Powers
39. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
tariff
Subsistence economy
Henry Ford
Demographics
40. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Separation of Powers
Karl Marx
Longitude
House of Burgesses
41. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
primary source
Popular Sovereignty
Industrial Revolution
The Nullification Crisis
42. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Famine
George Washington
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
subsistence agriculture
43. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
English Bill of Rights
95 Theses
Civil War
George Washington
44. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
international
1787-1789
colonists
45. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
Capitalism/Market Economy
veto
secondary source
46. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
Abe Lincoln
Bill of Rights
Federalist Papers
47. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Fund. Order of Conn.
Magna Carta
Basic Needs
suffrage
48. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
citizen
Enlightenment
Secularism
Mesoamerica civilizations
49. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Industrial Revolution
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Magnetic Compass
50. 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
Middle Ages
bias
Literacy Rate
Renaissance