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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Indulgences
Straits of Hormuz
Representative democracy
Canals
2. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Adam Smith
Industrialized
Cuneiform
Abraham Lincoln
3. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Middle Ages
Magna Carta
George Washington
1863 Emancipation Pro
4. People who settle and live in a colony
Silk Road
End of Reconstruction
colonists
subsistence agriculture
5. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Crusaders
Civil War
cottage industry
6. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
rural
Inalienable/Unalienable
Capitalism/Market Economy
7. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Scientific Revolution
Immigration patterns
Crusaders
Popular Sovereignty
8. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Separation of Powers .
Silk Road
Civil War 1861-1865
9. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Bill of Rights
Andean civilization
Industrialization
(naval) blockade
10. 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
ratify
Theocracy
suffrage
Middle Ages
11. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Mayflower Compact (1620)
1066
Republic
Industrialized
12. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
limited government
13th Amendment
urban
Silk Road
13. 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.
Taxation
Magna Carta
Civil War 1861-1865
Checks and Balances
14. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Representative democracy
veto
Hammurabi
Cotton Gin
15. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Direct Democracy
Longitude
Mayflower Compact (1620)
95 Theses
16. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
domestic
Fertile Crescent
Atlantic Slave Trade
Federalism
17. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Cuneiform
English Bill of Rights
States Rights
amendment
18. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
urban
End of Reconstruction
bias
Federalism
19. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
Andean civilization
George Washington
Ben Franklin
20. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Constitutional Conv.
ratify
Latitude
Magnetic Compass
21. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
colonists
unalienable
Humanism
22. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
Abe Lincoln
Per Capita Income
Limited Government
23. 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.
Communism/Command Economy
Free - enterprise economic system
Mayflower Compact
McCullough v. Maryland
24. 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.
Constitutional Monarchy
level of development
Imperialism
Articles of Confederation
25. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
14th Amendment
Representative democracy
Per Capita Income
Winston Churchill
26. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Latitude
Abe Lincoln
Subsistence agriculture
15th Amendment
27. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
George Washington
Traditional economy
Checks and Balances
Popular Sovereignty
28. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Republicanism
Industrial Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783
tariff
29. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
13th Amendment
colonists
unalienable
federalism
30. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Traditional economy
International Trade
English Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
31. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
13th Amendment
Articles of Conf.
Silk Road
Industrialized
32. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
The Senate
Scientific Revolution
Theocracy
unalienable
33. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Constitutional Monarchy
international
13th Amendment
Separation of Powers .
34. Mass production of food
14th Amendment
Federalism
Commercial Agriculture
1791
35. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
15th Amendment
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Protestant Reformation
environment
36. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Declaration of Independence
Migration
Basic Needs
13th Amendment
37. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
1215
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
urban
13th Amendment
38. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Consent of the Governed
imports
suburban
federalism
39. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Mesoamerica civilizations
Famine
15th Amendment
Canals
40. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Monotheism
secondary source
Bill of Rights
15th Amendment
41. Belief in many gods
Unconstitutional
Civil War
Polytheism
Thomas Jefferson
42. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Age of Reason
Marbury v. Madison
13th Amendment
Schism
43. King/queen who has unlimited power
suburban
Industrialization
Thomas Jefferson
Absolute Monarchy
44. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Civil War 1861-1865
Totalitarianism
market - oriented agriculture
Separation of Powers
45. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Popular Sovereignty
Land Ordinance of 1785
Articles of Confederation
John Locke
46. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Direct Democracy
Republic
1787-1789
Anti - Federalist
47. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Popular Sovereignty
Per Capita Income
Polytheism
14th Amendment
48. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Federalism
Bill of Rights
King George III
Emancipation Proclamation
49. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
George Washington
Subsistence economy
Indulgences
primary source
50. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Protestant Reformation
Straits of Hormuz
Irrigation Canals