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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Mesoamerica civilizations
suburban
Cotton Gin
2. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Immigration patterns
Separation of Powers .
Canals
Basic Needs
3. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Mesoamerica civilizations
Subsistence agriculture
Declaration of Independence
amendment
4. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Absolute Monarchy
Adam Smith
Abraham Lincoln
English Bill of Rights
5. Economic thinker that developed communism
Karl Marx
urban
Republicanism
Declaration of Indepen.
6. Involving other countries
English Bill of Rights
international
U.S. Constitution
Federalism
7. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Straits
Straits of Hormuz
Unconstitutional
Free - enterprise economic system
8. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Magna Carta
unalienable
Federalist
cultural diffusion
9. Tax on imports and exports.
secondary source
Direct Democracy
tariff
ratify
10. Government where the religious leader run the government
Theocracy
Subsistence agriculture
Schism
McCullough v. Maryland
11. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Separation of Powers
Articles of Conf.
Winston Churchill
Standard of living
12. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Montesquieu
Separation of Powers .
Atlantic Slave Trade
Representative Government
13. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Fertile Crescent
Panama Canal
Representative democracy
suburban
14. Average income per person
Humanism
Per Capita Income
Mayflower Compact
international
15. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Atlantic Slave Trade
Latitude
1066
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
16. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Natural Barriers
colonists
unalienable
suburban
17. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Andean civilization
George Washington
Free - enterprise economic system
Middle Ages
18. Average number of years people live
1863 Emancipation Pro
Life Expectancy
ratify
Oligarchy
19. 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
Magna Carta
Marbury v. Madison
Checks and Balances
Middle Ages
20. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Thomas Jefferson
Federalism
Famine
Constitutional Conv.
21. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Industrial Revolution
States Rights
Unconstitutional
Iron Curtain
22. Belief in one god
Monotheism
Individual Rights
1787
domestic
23. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Separation of Powers
Civil War
1776
Natural Barriers
24. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Standard of living
Treaty of Paris 1783
Articles of Confederation
Factory System
25. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
End of Reconstruction
Republic
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Articles of Conf.
26. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Oligarchy
Representative democracy
Republicanism
tariff
27. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
level of development
Absolute Monarchy
Federalism
Magnetic Compass
28. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Cottage industry
Andean civilization
Secularism
Suez Canal
29. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Urban
Atlantic Slave Trade
Bill of Rights
15th Amendment
30. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
House of Burgesses
Checks and Balances
nullify
limited government
31. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Latitude
Emancipation Proclamation
Adam Smith
Enlightenment
32. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Limited Government
Renaissance
Cuneiform
1066
33. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Thomas Jefferson
13th Amendment
Abe Lincoln
Straits
34. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
International Trade
level of development
(naval) blockade
Popular Sovereignty
35. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Separation of Powers
Atlantic Slave Trade
Standard of living
Latitude
36. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Thomas Jefferson
1787
Popular Sovereignty
bias
37. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Federalist Papers
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
King George III
Mesoamerica civilizations
38. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
The Nullification Crisis
15th Amendment
Land Ordinance of 1785
Representative democracy
39. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Schism
Thomas Jefferson
Straits of Hormuz
Scientific Revolution
40. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Republic
Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
41. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
imports
unalienable
suburban
Inalienable/Unalienable
42. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
ratify
1066
Constitutional Conv.
43. 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.
Free - enterprise economic system
Labor force
Enlightenment
Theocracy
44. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Draco
Panama Canal
Civil War
Checks and Balances
45. Making goods out of the home
Federalist
domestic
Cottage industry
Iron Curtain
46. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
nullify
Federalist Papers
Traditional economy
Checks and Balances
47. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
14th Amendment
Founding of Jamestown
Republic
48. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
secondary source
Land Ordinance of 1785
trade
Individual Rights
49. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Direct Democracy
Subsistence economy
International Trade
1787
50. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Factory System
Longitude
King George III