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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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1. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Famine
Latitude
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Scientific Revolution
2. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
Limited Government
Civil War
Hammurabi
3. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
15th Amendment
Famine
amendment
House of Burgesses
4. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
bias
Printing Press
Straits
primary source
5. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Printing Press
Fertile Crescent
secondary source
Labor force
6. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Iron Curtain
Cathedrals
cottage industry
1215
7. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Age of Reason
Labor force
House of Burgesses
Longitude
8. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Polytheism
tariff
Humanism
Atlantic Slave Trade
9. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
international
Sub - Saharan Africa .
market - oriented agriculture
Thomas Jefferson
10. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
1863 Emancipation Pro
House of Burgesses
Representative democracy
domestic
11. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
trade
unalienable
Republicanism
Enlightenment
12. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Scientific Revolution
14th Amendment
limited government
13. These slow down movement/migration
Anti - Federalist
Barriers
Subsistence economy
Infant Mortality
14. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Renaissance
Totalitarianism
amendment
suburban
15. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Limited Government
Constitutional Conv.
Silk Road
Magna Carta
16. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
colonists
Draco
Declaration of Indepen.
Federalist Papers
17. 1st written constitution
Individual Rights
Cuneiform
Fund. Order of Conn.
Protestant Reformation
18. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Parliament
Self Determination
Thomas Jefferson
Middle Ages
19. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Mayflower Compact
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ben Franklin
95 Theses
20. Having to do with one's own homeland
Columbian Exchange
domestic
Monotheism
U.S. Constitution
21. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
ziggurats
cultural diffusion
secondary source
McCullough v. Maryland
22. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Magna Carta
Nationalism
Abraham Lincoln
Federalist
23. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Founding of Jamestown
Magna Carta
Enlightenment
24. First representative assembly in American
Treaty of Paris 1783
1787
Famine
House of Burgesses
25. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Bill of Rights
Civil War
Longitude
Separation of Powers
26. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Labor force
Taxation
Suez Canal
Popular Sovereignty
27. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Abe Lincoln
Republic
Oligarchy
Renaissance
28. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Fertile Crescent
Thomas Jefferson
Hammurabi
Schism
29. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Representative Government
Monroe doctrine
Scientific Revolution
Renaissance
30. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Abe Lincoln
Magnetic Compass
era
(naval) blockade
31. All things that surround us.
environment
Limited Government
imports
amendment
32. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
House of Burgesses
Canals
Industrial Revolution
1791
33. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
1787-1789
1776
(naval) blockade
House of Burgesses
34. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
15th Amendment
Civil War
Cathedrals
Renaissance
35. 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.
(naval) blockade
Mesoamerica civilizations
Checks and Balances
Magna Carta
36. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Fertile Crescent
Emancipation Proclamation
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Representative Government
37. Average number of years people live
Life Expectancy
Iron Curtain
Straits
Mayflower Compact
38. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Immigration patterns
Famine
Representative Democracy
14th Amendment
39. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Federalist
Representative democracy
Thomas Jefferson
Magna Carta
40. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Latitude
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Land Ordinance of 1785
Unconstitutional
41. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Iron Curtain
Federalism
Declaration of Indepen.
Bill of Rights
42. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Checks and Balances
Articles of Confederation
43. This is also referred to as a city
Cotton Gin
Standard of living
Urban
Humanism
44. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Middle Ages
Nullification Crisis
Limited Government
Bill of Rights
45. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Industrial Revolution
Representative democracy
13th Amendment
Capitalism/Market Economy
46. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Federalism
14th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Scientific Revolution
47. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Limited Government
Consent of the Governed
Magna Carta
Separation of Powers .
48. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
trade
Checks and Balances
Silk Road
49. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Karl Marx
unalienable
suffrage
Plessy v. Ferguson
50. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Self Determination
international
bias
Parliament
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