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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
15th Amendment
Marbury v. Madison
Articles of Confederation
2. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Representative democracy
Emancipation Proclamation
Mayflower Compact
Immigration patterns
3. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
international
End of Reconstruction
Crusaders
Renaissance
4. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Constitutional Conv.
15th Amendment
13th Amendment
Monotheism
5. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Communism/Command Economy
Capitalism/Market Economy
Inalienable/Unalienable
Montesquieu
6. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
House of Burgesses
Individual Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
7. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
standard of living
Checks and Balances
Urban
15th Amendment
8. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Totalitarianism
Irrigation Canals
Cathedrals
Limited Government
9. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
George Washington
Fund. Order of Conn.
Limited Government
Age of Reason
10. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Republicanism
14th Amendment
Industrial Revolution
Nationalism
11. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Popular Sovereignty
Latitude
exports
Columbian Exchange
12. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Civil War
King George III
Parliament
Scientific Revolution
13. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Nationalism
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Fund. Order of Conn.
Industrialization
14. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Articles of Confederation
trade
environment
Federalism
15. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
15th Amendment
Infant Mortality
Fertile Crescent
Sub - Saharan Africa .
16. Who opposed the Constitution?
Anti - Federalists
primary source
Abraham Lincoln
1791
17. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
standard of living
amendment
Self Determination
Subsistence economy
18. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
The Senate
Separation of Powers
King George III
Industrial Revolution
19. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
International Trade
market - oriented agriculture
Panama Canal
Magna Carta
20. 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
Articles of Confederation
Labor force
veto
21. All things that surround us.
environment
era
Enlightenment
Cuneiform
22. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
secondary source
Mayflower Compact
(naval) blockade
The Nullification Crisis
23. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Nullification Crisis
suffrage
House of Burgesses
Absolute Monarchy
24. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
1787
Anti - Federalist
grievance
imports
25. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Hammurabi
Basic Needs
End of Reconstruction
Silk Road
26. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Montesquieu
Mesoamerica civilizations
Separation of Powers
suffrage
27. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
House of Burgesses
Cuneiform
Thomas Jefferson
1215
28. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
Limited Government
cultural diffusion
Checks and Balances
Articles of Conf.
29. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
Imperialism
States Rights
Federalism
30. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Republicanism
Separation of Powers .
Parliament
Imperialism
31. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Draco
Magna Carta
Renaissance
Land Ordinance of 1785
32. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
House of Burgesses
Industrial Revolution
Latitude
33. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Individual Rights
Thomas Jefferson
Nullification Crisis
Limited Government
34. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Individual Rights
standard of living
Atlantic Slave Trade
English Bill of Rights
35. Government ruled by a few powerful people
The Senate
English Bill of Rights
Oligarchy
Iron Curtain
36. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
suburban
Popular Sovereignty
urban
Cotton Gin
37. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
End of Reconstruction
Montesquieu
Indulgences
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
38. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Factory System
Federalist Papers
standard of living
Separation of Powers .
39. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Civil War
Republicanism
George Washington
Popular Sovereignty
40. Average number of years people live
Life Expectancy
Magna Carta
King George III
Nullification Crisis
41. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
1215
grievance
The Nullification Crisis
cultural diffusion
42. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Standard of living
Limited Government
13th Amendment
Printing Press
43. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Plessy v. Ferguson
Irrigation Canals
Separation of Powers .
Justinian
44. These slow down movement/migration
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Republic
Theocracy
Barriers
45. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
tariff
Communism/Command Economy
Mayflower Compact
1863 Emancipation Pro
46. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
(naval) blockade
Migration
urban
1791
47. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Absolute Monarchy
Totalitarianism
Bartering
ratify
48. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Bill of Rights
Parliament
13th Amendment
Cuneiform
49. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Bubonic Plague
Individual Rights
Justinian
Magnetic Compass
50. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
George Washington
limited government
Life Expectancy
Immigration patterns