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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Immigration patterns
exports
Industrialization
Winston Churchill
2. Mass production of food
Self Determination
Commercial Agriculture
Industrial Revolution
Marbury v. Madison
3. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
Schism
Labor force
grievance
4. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Literacy Rate
Fund. Order of Conn.
grievance
The Nullification Crisis
5. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Declaration of Indepen.
bias
Consent of the Governed
Marbury v. Madison
6. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Humanism
Enlightenment
Plessy v. Ferguson
7. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
International Trade
Direct Democracy
King George III
8. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Articles of Conf.
Checks and Balances
Bill of Rights
Individual Rights
9. A written plan of government for the colonies created a weak league of 13 nearly independent states in 1777. The 1st Constitution of the U.S.
Protestant Reformation
Panama Canal
Individual Rights
Articles of Confederation
10. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Republicanism
Magna Carta
Industrial Revolution
Declaration of Independence
11. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
suburban
Bartering
colonists
14th Amendment
12. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
unalienable
Taxation
The Nullification Crisis
13. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Montesquieu
international
limited government
Scientific Revolution
14. Who opposed the Constitution?
Immigration patterns
Silk Road
Anti - Federalists
Checks and Balances
15. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Federalism
English Bill of Rights
Thomas Jefferson
citizen
16. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
subsistence agriculture
Civil War
secondary source
Individual Rights
17. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Middle Ages
Scientific Revolution
ziggurats
Limited Government
18. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Protestant Reformation
Constitutional Monarchy
Capitalism/Market Economy
Founding of Jamestown
19. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Declaration of Independence
imports
level of development
veto
20. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Montesquieu
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Articles of Conf.
Individual Rights
21. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
suburban
Parliament
Renaissance
Direct Democracy
22. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
Constitutional Conv.
citizen
Marbury v. Madison
23. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Industrialized
Bill of Rights
Absolute Monarchy
Indulgences
24. Pride in ones country
Magna Carta
colonists
Thomas Jefferson
Nationalism
25. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Consent of the Governed
Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
26. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
primary source
Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
27. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Federalist
federalism
unalienable
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
28. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Constitutional Conv.
Checks and Balances
Mayflower Compact
George Washington
29. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Self Determination
Emancipation Proclamation
imports
Justinian
30. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
Marbury v. Madison
Demographics
Representative Democracy
31. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
rural
Emancipation Proclamation
1215
Age of Exploration & Colonization
32. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
imports
cottage industry
Individual Rights
Enlightenment
33. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Hammurabi
Mayflower Compact
States Rights
Bubonic Plague
34. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Magna Carta
Federalism
Consent of the Governed
Anti - Federalists
35. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
Polytheism
Age of Reason
Marbury v. Madison
36. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Winston Churchill
Traditional economy
Bill of Rights
37. These slow down movement/migration
Articles of Confederation
Barriers
Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
38. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Commercial Agriculture
Magnetic Compass
George Washington
Barriers
39. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Republicanism
primary source
Crusaders
Abe Lincoln
40. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Irrigation Canals
Abe Lincoln
Inalienable/Unalienable
1787-1789
41. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Straits of Hormuz
The Senate
Iron Curtain
Renaissance
42. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Totalitarianism
Indulgences
Civil War 1861-1865
Popular Sovereignty
43. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Humanism
End of Reconstruction
Individual Rights
Infant Mortality
44. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
1791
Constitutional Conv.
Silk Road
Federalist Papers
45. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
(naval) blockade
1215
Federalist Papers
ziggurats
46. President of the United States during the Civil War
Republic
Abraham Lincoln
Age of Exploration & Colonization
domestic
47. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
13th Amendment
Anti - Federalists
Federalism
Scientific Revolution
48. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Age of Reason
Articles of Confederation
subsistence agriculture
grievance
49. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Consent of the Governed
environment
Capitalism/Market Economy
Henry Ford
50. Belief in many gods
95 Theses
Polytheism
Theocracy
Articles of Confederation