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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
King George III
1066
tariff
15th Amendment
2. 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
End of Reconstruction
95 Theses
Irrigation Canals
3. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
suffrage
Articles of Conf.
House of Burgesses
amendment
4. Split in the church
Declaration of Indepen.
Labor force
Industrialization
Schism
5. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Magna Carta
Thomas Jefferson
secondary source
95 Theses
6. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Abe Lincoln
George Washington
States Rights
13th Amendment
7. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Founding of Jamestown
George Washington
Representative Government
8. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
International Trade
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Suez Canal
Cathedrals
9. Period in Europe that began after the fall of the Roman Empire Characterized by feudalism - Roman Catholic Church was the unifier of the age with more power than Kings/Lords
1066
Checks and Balances
Straits
Middle Ages
10. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Atlantic Slave Trade
Fund. Order of Conn.
Enlightenment
1791
11. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Individual Rights
Famine
Self Determination
Checks and Balances
12. King of England during the American Revolution.
Federalism
Migration
Longitude
King George III
13. Average income per person
Constitutional Conv.
Per Capita Income
Thomas Jefferson
Cotton Gin
14. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Taxation
Land Ordinance of 1785
Magna Carta
Fertile Crescent
15. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Humanism
George Washington
bias
domestic
16. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe doctrine
Thomas Jefferson
Representative Government
secondary source
17. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Imperialism
Plessy v. Ferguson
Immigration patterns
Iron Curtain
18. Modern Constitution
amendment
Anti - Federalists
U.S. Constitution
Civil War
19. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
Longitude
Representative democracy
Articles of Confederation
20. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Demographics
Constitutional Conv.
Life Expectancy
cultural diffusion
21. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Mayflower Compact
Urban
Industrialization
Subsistence economy
22. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Magna Carta
Direct Democracy
Straits
The Nullification Crisis
23. 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.
Labor force
Popular Sovereignty
1787
Federalism
24. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Abraham Lincoln
subsistence agriculture
13th Amendment
Civil War
25. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
House of Burgesses
Standard of living
citizen
Imperialism
26. Involving other countries
international
Ben Franklin
George Washington
Representative Democracy
27. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
13th Amendment
Separation of Powers
House of Burgesses
Canals
28. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Capitalism/Market Economy
English Bill of Rights
Straits of Hormuz
Straits
29. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Andean civilization
Subsistence economy
limited government
Protestant Reformation
30. Government where the religious leader run the government
citizen
House of Burgesses
Theocracy
Constitutional Conv.
31. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
cultural diffusion
Factory System
Enlightenment
The Nullification Crisis
32. Separate is not equal in public Schools
The Nullification Crisis
Subsistence economy
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Canals
33. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Civil War 1861-1865
1863 Emancipation Pro
Representative democracy
Popular Sovereignty
34. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
veto
limited government
States Rights
Irrigation Canals
35. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Literacy Rate
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Longitude
(naval) blockade
36. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Factory System
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Canals
(naval) blockade
37. Mass production of food
Latitude
Basic Needs
Civil War 1861-1865
Commercial Agriculture
38. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Bill of Rights
Indulgences
Marbury v. Madison
Federalist
39. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Factory System
Popular Sovereignty
Direct Democracy
Federalist Papers
40. Tax on imports and exports.
Justinian
Marbury v. Madison
tariff
Marbury v. Madison
41. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
15th Amendment
Unconstitutional
unalienable
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
42. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Barriers
Bubonic Plague
Separation of Powers
Subsistence agriculture
43. Having to do with one's own homeland
exports
domestic
1215
limited government
44. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
1791
standard of living
Marbury v. Madison
45. 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.
Longitude
era
Representative democracy
Force Bill
46. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Representative Government
Monroe doctrine
Force Bill
Checks and Balances
47. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
subsistence agriculture
citizen
Checks and Balances
Mayflower Compact (1620)
48. King/queen who has unlimited power
Infant Mortality
Absolute Monarchy
Abe Lincoln
citizen
49. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
ziggurats
Commercial Agriculture
Republicanism
Representative Democracy
50. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Adam Smith
Republicanism
ratify
Monroe doctrine