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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
1215
Labor force
bias
Republicanism
2. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Straits
Mayflower Compact
Irrigation Canals
Republic
3. Exchange of goods and services.
Subsistence agriculture
trade
Absolute Monarchy
Mesoamerica civilizations
4. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
English Bill of Rights
amendment
Declaration of Independence
Separation of Powers .
5. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
13th Amendment
Suez Canal
Cuneiform
Republicanism
6. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
imports
Magna Carta
Factory System
Force Bill
7. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
Traditional economy
The Nullification Crisis
domestic
8. Tax on imports and exports.
States Rights
tariff
Columbian Exchange
1863 Emancipation Pro
9. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
14th Amendment
Irrigation Canals
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Emancipation Proclamation
10. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Thomas Jefferson
Enlightenment
Civil War 1861-1865
11. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
George Washington
Federalist
unalienable
Separation of Powers .
12. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Bubonic Plague
Draco
Winston Churchill
Marbury v. Madison
13. To officially approve.
Representative Democracy
Enlightenment
Panama Canal
ratify
14. These slow down movement/migration
Andean civilization
Mesoamerica civilizations
Bill of Rights
Barriers
15. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
15th Amendment
1776
The Nullification Crisis
Irrigation Canals
16. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Renaissance
suffrage
Representative Democracy
Mayflower Compact
17. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Popular Sovereignty
Traditional economy
Thomas Jefferson
States Rights
18. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Enlightenment
Age of Reason
Atlantic Slave Trade
Limited Government
19. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
primary source
Civil War
Bubonic Plague
market - oriented agriculture
20. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
Columbian Exchange
Labor force
14th Amendment
21. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Scientific Revolution
Winston Churchill
(naval) blockade
Communism/Command Economy
22. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Individual Rights
Bill of Rights
Natural Barriers
market - oriented agriculture
23. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Limited Government
Cottage industry
John Locke
15th Amendment
24. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Individual Rights
Henry Ford
Industrialized
Crusaders
25. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Henry Ford
Canals
Emancipation Proclamation
Mesoamerica civilizations
26. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Age of Reason
Standard of living
Nationalism
Secularism
27. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Magna Carta
1215
environment
Popular Sovereignty
28. Split in the church
Schism
International Trade
grievance
14th Amendment
29. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Cuneiform
Bill of Rights
Montesquieu
English Bill of Rights
30. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Standard of living
Republic
Declaration of Independence
limited government
31. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Silk Road
Draco
Age of Reason
Montesquieu
32. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Bill of Rights
Mesoamerica civilizations
tariff
Emancipation Proclamation
33. Average income per person
McCullough v. Maryland
Per Capita Income
Commercial Agriculture
Self Determination
34. 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.
Monotheism
English Bill of Rights
primary source
Federalist
35. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Straits of Hormuz
Industrial Revolution
Cuneiform
King George III
36. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
1776
Magnetic Compass
Magna Carta
amendment
37. 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.
1787-1789
13th Amendment
Barriers
Free - enterprise economic system
38. Involving other countries
Mayflower Compact
international
Separation of Powers
Individual Rights
39. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Columbian Exchange
Founding of Jamestown
Factory System
1863 Emancipation Pro
40. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
federalism
Andean civilization
Standard of living
Plessy v. Ferguson
41. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Indulgences
King George III
Taxation
13th Amendment
42. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Panama Canal
Articles of Confederation
imports
Inalienable/Unalienable
43. Government where the religious leader run the government
John Locke
international
bias
Theocracy
44. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
ratify
Federalist Papers
domestic
Silk Road
45. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Protestant Reformation
Separation of Powers
Bill of Rights
1787
46. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
1776
Panama Canal
Cathedrals
Bill of Rights
47. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Suez Canal
Communism/Command Economy
Monroe doctrine
Mayflower Compact (1620)
48. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
colonists
Mayflower Compact
Separation of Powers
Justinian
49. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Industrialized
Magna Carta
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Brown v. Board of Edu.
50. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Anti - Federalist
Unconstitutional
Straits
limited government