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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
King George III
suburban
Montesquieu
Mesoamerica civilizations
2. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Humanism
bias
John Locke
Separation of Powers
3. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Treaty of Paris 1783
Civil War
Natural Barriers
Migration
4. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Secularism
Separation of Powers
Separation of Powers .
nullify
5. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Factory System
Mesoamerica civilizations
Crusaders
Secularism
6. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Federalism
Limited Government
Anti - Federalist
Brown v. Board of Edu.
7. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Republic
ziggurats
Individual Rights
8. 1st written constitution
Justinian
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Fund. Order of Conn.
Federalism
9. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Atlantic Slave Trade
Middle Ages
Federalist Papers
Standard of living
10. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Panama Canal
Famine
Articles of Conf.
Cottage industry
11. To officially approve.
John Locke
Checks and Balances
ratify
Enlightenment
12. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
imports
1776
Abe Lincoln
Andean civilization
13. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Free - enterprise economic system
Parliament
Separation of Powers .
14. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Polytheism
Protestant Reformation
Republicanism
George Washington
15. Opposed to the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government and not enough to the states. They also wanted individual rights protected
Latitude
Natural Barriers
Anti - Federalist
international
16. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
1066
15th Amendment
Latitude
subsistence agriculture
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.
Limited Government
14th Amendment
Henry Ford
Communism/Command Economy
18. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
unalienable
Enlightenment
Civil War
Irrigation Canals
19. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Enlightenment
secondary source
Hammurabi
Nullification Crisis
20. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Communism/Command Economy
1776
English Bill of Rights
Checks and Balances
21. Involving other countries
Unconstitutional
Age of Reason
international
Straits of Hormuz
22. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Crusaders
Limited Government
Fertile Crescent
Communism/Command Economy
23. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Schism
Bill of Rights
Constitutional Monarchy
Cathedrals
24. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Industrialization
secondary source
bias
Factory System
25. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Popular Sovereignty
Secularism
Mayflower Compact
Draco
26. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Plessy v. Ferguson
Self Determination
Capitalism/Market Economy
Crusaders
27. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Thomas Jefferson
federalism
13th Amendment
States Rights
28. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
English Bill of Rights
Cathedrals
Monroe doctrine
Mayflower Compact
29. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Cuneiform
International Trade
amendment
Panama Canal
30. Officially ended the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783
Parliament
environment
Silk Road
31. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
imports
Suez Canal
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Silk Road
32. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Limited Government
15th Amendment
Founding of Jamestown
Constitutional Monarchy
33. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
King George III
Justinian
Monroe doctrine
34. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
urban
Plessy v. Ferguson
John Locke
Mesoamerica civilizations
35. Tax on imports and exports.
tariff
Protestant Reformation
13th Amendment
Civil War 1861-1865
36. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
subsistence agriculture
House of Burgesses
Protestant Reformation
(naval) blockade
37. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
Representative Government
English Bill of Rights
Nationalism
38. Complaints
1863 Emancipation Pro
Federalist
grievance
Thomas Jefferson
39. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
subsistence agriculture
Cuneiform
Iron Curtain
Federalist Papers
40. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
exports
Iron Curtain
rural
Magnetic Compass
41. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Bartering
Thomas Jefferson
House of Burgesses
Thomas Jefferson
42. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Subsistence economy
George Washington
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Constitutional Conv.
43. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Unconstitutional
1066
Checks and Balances
colonists
44. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
tariff
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
standard of living
Self Determination
45. First representative assembly in American
Karl Marx
George Washington
95 Theses
House of Burgesses
46. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
Magna Carta
Cottage industry
Silk Road
Enlightenment
47. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
Columbian Exchange
Emancipation Proclamation
International Trade
Labor force
48. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Individual Rights
standard of living
English Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
49. 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
Plessy v. Ferguson
Panama Canal
Middle Ages
1787-1789
50. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Checks and Balances
14th Amendment
Latitude
grievance