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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Popular Sovereignty
international
subsistence agriculture
Life Expectancy
2. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Civil War
Checks and Balances
Commercial Agriculture
subsistence agriculture
3. 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.
level of development
Force Bill
Karl Marx
suffrage
4. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Migration
Emancipation Proclamation
cottage industry
Separation of Powers
5. To officially approve.
Representative Democracy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Civil War 1861-1865
ratify
6. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
George Washington
Theocracy
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Articles of Confederation
7. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Labor force
federalism
English Bill of Rights
Oligarchy
8. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
1787-1789
Consent of the Governed
Anti - Federalist
international
9. Exchange of goods and services.
trade
Immigration patterns
Henry Ford
Separation of Powers
10. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
era
Mayflower Compact
U.S. Constitution
Magna Carta
11. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Constitutional Monarchy
suburban
Thomas Jefferson
Industrial Revolution
12. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Migration
Montesquieu
Draco
Traditional economy
13. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Crusaders
Renaissance
suffrage
Middle Ages
14. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Andean civilization
Magna Carta
Founding of Jamestown
Mayflower Compact (1620)
15. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Printing Press
Plessy v. Ferguson
veto
Adam Smith
16. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Totalitarianism
suffrage
Treaty of Paris 1783
Federalism
17. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Winston Churchill
amendment
Latitude
1215
18. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Emancipation Proclamation
Atlantic Slave Trade
Parliament
Fund. Order of Conn.
19. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
citizen
Bartering
Magna Carta
Crusaders
20. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Bill of Rights
Constitutional Monarchy
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Civil War
21. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
15th Amendment
Unconstitutional
era
Mesoamerica civilizations
22. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Treaty of Paris 1783
1791
Subsistence economy
Demographics
23. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Land Ordinance of 1785
English Bill of Rights
Industrialization
Famine
24. Member of a country.
citizen
Indulgences
Oligarchy
The Nullification Crisis
25. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Draco
1863 Emancipation Pro
Magna Carta
Industrial Revolution
26. Belief in one god
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Monotheism
grievance
Traditional economy
27. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Totalitarianism
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
George Washington
Monroe doctrine
28. Government where the religious leader run the government
subsistence agriculture
Republic
Theocracy
Imperialism
29. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
Traditional economy
bias
Federalist Papers
30. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
13th Amendment
Constitutional Monarchy
Factory System
Printing Press
31. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Totalitarianism
Federalist Papers
Literacy Rate
Nullification Crisis
32. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Consent of the Governed
Mayflower Compact
Bubonic Plague
George Washington
33. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
95 Theses
Nullification Crisis
Separation of Powers .
Republicanism
34. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Subsistence economy
English Bill of Rights
Thomas Jefferson
Indulgences
35. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
trade
Representative Government
Enlightenment
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
36. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
House of Burgesses
Industrial Revolution
Ben Franklin
Civil War
37. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Longitude
Fund. Order of Conn.
English Bill of Rights
1787-1789
38. Curbed States' Rights
Schism
Force Bill
McCullough v. Maryland
level of development
39. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Consent of the Governed
Famine
standard of living
Subsistence agriculture
40. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Industrial Revolution
trade
Totalitarianism
Atlantic Slave Trade
41. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Industrial Revolution
Urban
cottage industry
Separation of Powers
42. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Indulgences
Printing Press
Secularism
Subsistence economy
43. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Anti - Federalist
Henry Ford
Plessy v. Ferguson
cultural diffusion
44. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
Marbury v. Madison
Cathedrals
Abraham Lincoln
45. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Renaissance
Irrigation Canals
market - oriented agriculture
McCullough v. Maryland
46. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
federalism
standard of living
Basic Needs
47. Limited the power of the King in 1215
14th Amendment
Magna Carta
Subsistence agriculture
Polytheism
48. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Literacy Rate
citizen
U.S. Constitution
Limited Government
49. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Subsistence economy
Thomas Jefferson
Industrial Revolution
Suez Canal
50. 1st written constitution
standard of living
Labor force
Cottage industry
Fund. Order of Conn.