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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Latitude
Bill of Rights
federalism
2. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Magna Carta
Immigration patterns
Iron Curtain
Sub - Saharan Africa .
3. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Articles of Confederation
Oligarchy
veto
George Washington
4. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Popular Sovereignty
suffrage
Constitutional Conv.
Declaration of Independence
5. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Fertile Crescent
rural
Montesquieu
Subsistence agriculture
6. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Commercial Agriculture
market - oriented agriculture
Self Determination
Checks and Balances
7. Government where the religious leader run the government
1776
House of Burgesses
Renaissance
Theocracy
8. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Brown v. Board of Edu.
rural
English Bill of Rights
Straits of Hormuz
9. Member of a country.
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
citizen
domestic
Commercial Agriculture
10. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
Absolute Monarchy
Self Determination
Subsistence economy
11. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
ziggurats
Subsistence economy
Scientific Revolution
Secularism
12. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Magna Carta
Marbury v. Madison
Cotton Gin
exports
13. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
Popular Sovereignty
Plessy v. Ferguson
15th Amendment
14. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Migration
Adam Smith
Emancipation Proclamation
Individual Rights
15. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Representative Democracy
Thomas Jefferson
Polytheism
16. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Infant Mortality
Federalism
Civil War
Federalist
17. The System in the U.S. and other free market economies. It includes economic choice - competition - profit motive - and limited government regulation of the economy.
Columbian Exchange
cultural diffusion
Free - enterprise economic system
Magnetic Compass
18. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Monotheism
Imperialism
15th Amendment
Free - enterprise economic system
19. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
Justinian
Consent of the Governed
Representative Democracy
20. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Industrial Revolution
Mayflower Compact
Mesoamerica civilizations
21. 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
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Andean civilization
22. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Migration
veto
Constitutional Conv.
23. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Self Determination
Magna Carta
cottage industry
subsistence agriculture
24. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Individual Rights
Panama Canal
Traditional economy
George Washington
25. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
1776
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
Canals
26. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Individual Rights
Urban
Declaration of Indepen.
Bubonic Plague
27. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Industrial Revolution
unalienable
veto
28. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Factory System
Silk Road
Immigration patterns
13th Amendment
29. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
rural
Winston Churchill
Urban
30. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
suburban
Articles of Confederation
Free - enterprise economic system
Infant Mortality
31. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Standard of living
Straits
Mayflower Compact
Barriers
32. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Basic Needs
Abe Lincoln
Republic
Republicanism
33. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Basic Needs
Founding of Jamestown
Panama Canal
suburban
34. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Republicanism
Labor force
level of development
Middle Ages
35. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Limited Government
States Rights
international
Karl Marx
36. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
rural
George Washington
Plessy v. Ferguson
37. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
1776
The Senate
Bill of Rights
Articles of Conf.
38. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Separation of Powers .
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Iron Curtain
Montesquieu
39. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
suffrage
Migration
Schism
Representative Government
40. 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
John Locke
Humanism
Nationalism
41. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Winston Churchill
suffrage
Subsistence economy
Separation of Powers .
42. King of England during the American Revolution.
Bill of Rights
Republicanism
King George III
Indulgences
43. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Scientific Revolution
End of Reconstruction
14th Amendment
95 Theses
44. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Literacy Rate
cottage industry
Commercial Agriculture
Enlightenment
45. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
market - oriented agriculture
Abe Lincoln
End of Reconstruction
Popular Sovereignty
46. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1787-1789
Constitutional Conv.
George Washington
Henry Ford
47. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
End of Reconstruction
Federalism
Representative Government
Land Ordinance of 1785
48. Who opposed the Constitution?
Enlightenment
Emancipation Proclamation
Draco
Anti - Federalists
49. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Irrigation Canals
1863 Emancipation Pro
standard of living
Columbian Exchange
50. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Hammurabi
Thomas Jefferson
grievance
Age of Reason