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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
Communism/Command Economy
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Montesquieu
exports
2. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
standard of living
Declaration of Independence
Fertile Crescent
English Bill of Rights
3. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
Literacy Rate
U.S. Constitution
Commercial Agriculture
4. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
colonists
veto
Magnetic Compass
John Locke
5. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Fund. Order of Conn.
federalism
1066
Individual Rights
6. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Articles of Confederation
Migration
Printing Press
Standard of living
7. Exchange of goods and services.
15th Amendment
trade
Emancipation Proclamation
domestic
8. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Marbury v. Madison
Emancipation Proclamation
Canals
Declaration of Independence
9. To officially approve.
ratify
1066
Cathedrals
Draco
10. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Federalism
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Mesoamerica civilizations
Articles of Confederation
11. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Founding of Jamestown
Declaration of Independence
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Latitude
12. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Imperialism
rural
House of Burgesses
Taxation
13. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
veto
1791
Straits
Standard of living
14. 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.
Standard of living
urban
Force Bill
tariff
15. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Bartering
Draco
subsistence agriculture
16. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Enlightenment
limited government
subsistence agriculture
Straits of Hormuz
17. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
International Trade
Irrigation Canals
13th Amendment
international
18. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
level of development
Checks and Balances
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Limited Government
19. Split in the church
1787-1789
Draco
Schism
Migration
20. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
Articles of Confederation
Self Determination
Representative democracy
21. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
Thomas Jefferson
level of development
Enlightenment
22. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Straits of Hormuz
Magna Carta
Cuneiform
Declaration of Indepen.
23. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Immigration patterns
Plessy v. Ferguson
Declaration of Indepen.
Limited Government
24. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Demographics
Declaration of Independence
Constitutional Monarchy
Immigration patterns
25. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Basic Needs
Articles of Confederation
McCullough v. Maryland
26. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Republicanism
Urban
Marbury v. Madison
Industrialized
27. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Famine
Federalism
Montesquieu
Consent of the Governed
28. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Factory System
Secularism
Barriers
Plessy v. Ferguson
29. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Subsistence economy
Thomas Jefferson
Taxation
Sub - Saharan Africa .
30. Who opposed the Constitution?
Indulgences
Anti - Federalists
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Marbury v. Madison
31. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
English Bill of Rights
Standard of living
Bubonic Plague
Factory System
32. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Federalism
Abraham Lincoln
Articles of Confederation
1215
33. Economic thinker that developed communism
limited government
Magnetic Compass
Karl Marx
Middle Ages
34. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Founding of Jamestown
Infant Mortality
Civil War 1861-1865
Monotheism
35. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Irrigation Canals
Theocracy
Mayflower Compact
Industrial Revolution
36. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Abraham Lincoln
Representative Government
McCullough v. Maryland
Industrial Revolution
37. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Middle Ages
Marbury v. Madison
Separation of Powers
Federalism
38. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
13th Amendment
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Thomas Jefferson
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
39. Average number of years people live
Anti - Federalist
Magna Carta
Life Expectancy
Cottage industry
40. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Justinian
Capitalism/Market Economy
Republic
Draco
41. This is also referred to as a city
Bill of Rights
Enlightenment
Urban
Factory System
42. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
English Bill of Rights
era
14th Amendment
Ben Franklin
43. Officially ended the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783
Enlightenment
George Washington
Infant Mortality
44. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Bill of Rights
Standard of living
Limited Government
14th Amendment
45. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Founding of Jamestown
Monroe doctrine
federalism
citizen
46. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Ben Franklin
Fertile Crescent
1863 Emancipation Pro
Federalist Papers
47. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Constitutional Monarchy
15th Amendment
Individual Rights
48. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
Oligarchy
Brown v. Board of Edu.
primary source
49. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
States Rights
Polytheism
Ben Franklin
Indulgences
50. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Hammurabi
States Rights
Federalist Papers
13th Amendment