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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
Constitutional Conv.
Cottage industry
Atlantic Slave Trade
2. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Taxation
Federalist Papers
Individual Rights
3. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Demographics
Migration
Bubonic Plague
Inalienable/Unalienable
4. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
15th Amendment
Barriers
Thomas Jefferson
Taxation
5. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Fertile Crescent
13th Amendment
Bill of Rights
1863 Emancipation Pro
6. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Bubonic Plague
John Locke
suffrage
Emancipation Proclamation
7. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Magnetic Compass
Representative Democracy
Inalienable/Unalienable
Cathedrals
8. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Fund. Order of Conn.
15th Amendment
13th Amendment
Mayflower Compact (1620)
9. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Popular Sovereignty
Protestant Reformation
Limited Government
Constitutional Monarchy
10. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Industrialization
Scientific Revolution
era
1787
11. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
Life Expectancy
George Washington
13th Amendment
12. Who opposed the Constitution?
Articles of Confederation
Bartering
Karl Marx
Anti - Federalists
13. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
secondary source
The Nullification Crisis
Traditional economy
Factory System
14. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
95 Theses
Age of Exploration & Colonization
nullify
Magna Carta
15. 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.
level of development
ziggurats
citizen
Articles of Confederation
16. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Enlightenment
Magna Carta
cultural diffusion
Mayflower Compact
17. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Separation of Powers .
ziggurats
95 Theses
Canals
18. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Magnetic Compass
Natural Barriers
Oligarchy
rural
19. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Henry Ford
Humanism
Theocracy
20. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
market - oriented agriculture
Barriers
Printing Press
limited government
21. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
House of Burgesses
Constitutional Monarchy
Mayflower Compact
Ben Franklin
22. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Industrialized
End of Reconstruction
Consent of the Governed
Absolute Monarchy
23. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Humanism
Oligarchy
Force Bill
King George III
24. People who settle and live in a colony
Theocracy
colonists
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Secularism
25. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
rural
Popular Sovereignty
Treaty of Paris 1783
Crusaders
26. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Monroe doctrine
Parliament
Republic
Life Expectancy
27. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
trade
Straits
Thomas Jefferson
Atlantic Slave Trade
28. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Standard of living
Humanism
Articles of Confederation
secondary source
29. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Civil War
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Nationalism
rural
30. Opposed to the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government and not enough to the states. They also wanted individual rights protected
exports
Articles of Confederation
Anti - Federalist
Natural Barriers
31. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Constitutional Conv.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
Anti - Federalist
32. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Urban
Land Ordinance of 1785
English Bill of Rights
Representative democracy
33. Belief in many gods
nullify
Polytheism
rural
Communism/Command Economy
34. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Checks and Balances
1215
Civil War 1861-1865
level of development
35. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Hammurabi
subsistence agriculture
Migration
Free - enterprise economic system
36. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
English Bill of Rights
subsistence agriculture
Industrial Revolution
Montesquieu
37. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
suffrage
Straits of Hormuz
Migration
Checks and Balances
38. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
House of Burgesses
1776
14th Amendment
Constitutional Conv.
39. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Thomas Jefferson
The Nullification Crisis
Enlightenment
Winston Churchill
40. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Indulgences
George Washington
Articles of Confederation
Republic
41. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
U.S. Constitution
Articles of Confederation
subsistence agriculture
42. 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.
Bill of Rights
Straits
King George III
1787
43. Involving other countries
Separation of Powers .
Industrialized
Monroe doctrine
international
44. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Federalism
Federalism
1791
1066
45. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Civil War
Nullification Crisis
Articles of Conf.
limited government
46. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Age of Reason
Plessy v. Ferguson
Taxation
Checks and Balances
47. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
Taxation
Articles of Confederation
Theocracy
48. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Age of Exploration & Colonization
95 Theses
cultural diffusion
1787-1789
49. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republicanism
Traditional economy
Republic
Labor force
50. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Consent of the Governed
Irrigation Canals
market - oriented agriculture
Protestant Reformation