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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Literacy Rate
Columbian Exchange
Mayflower Compact
Montesquieu
2. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
House of Burgesses
Civil War 1861-1865
Brown v. Board of Edu.
End of Reconstruction
3. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Limited Government
Emancipation Proclamation
Standard of living
Basic Needs
4. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
Subsistence agriculture
Theocracy
subsistence agriculture
5. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
cultural diffusion
Representative Democracy
imports
Labor force
6. A government that elects its leaders
Fund. Order of Conn.
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill
Republic
7. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Cuneiform
Renaissance
Middle Ages
Federalism
8. 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
Anti - Federalist
Parliament
Plessy v. Ferguson
Hammurabi
9. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Magna Carta
15th Amendment
Standard of living
Federalist Papers
10. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
1791
Self Determination
George Washington
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
11. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
1791
The Nullification Crisis
Magna Carta
Republicanism
12. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Founding of Jamestown
Subsistence agriculture
Montesquieu
Inalienable/Unalienable
13. Having to do with one's own homeland
Latitude
domestic
Justinian
Checks and Balances
14. Mountains - deserts and oceans
15th Amendment
Natural Barriers
Republic
Enlightenment
15. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Canals
Cathedrals
Civil War
Henry Ford
16. These slow down movement/migration
Industrial Revolution
Iron Curtain
Barriers
Bill of Rights
17. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Self Determination
Andean civilization
Subsistence agriculture
Straits of Hormuz
18. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Declaration of Independence
Indulgences
Representative democracy
domestic
19. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Checks and Balances
Middle Ages
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Ben Franklin
20. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Monotheism
Taxation
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
21. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Polytheism
15th Amendment
House of Burgesses
Demographics
22. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
domestic
End of Reconstruction
Factory System
Federalist Papers
23. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Natural Barriers
Abraham Lincoln
Bartering
Henry Ford
24. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
14th Amendment
Federalist Papers
Limited Government
Communism/Command Economy
25. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Representative Democracy
Humanism
domestic
Republicanism
26. Average income per person
Self Determination
1776
International Trade
Per Capita Income
27. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Abraham Lincoln
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Inalienable/Unalienable
Separation of Powers .
28. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Secularism
bias
Cotton Gin
13th Amendment
29. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
English Bill of Rights
Iron Curtain
1066
Urban
30. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Nationalism
Bubonic Plague
Life Expectancy
Labor force
31. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
international
Marbury v. Madison
English Bill of Rights
Totalitarianism
32. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
George Washington
English Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Famine
33. 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.
suffrage
Bill of Rights
Industrial Revolution
Free - enterprise economic system
34. Member of a country.
Federalism
citizen
Free - enterprise economic system
Urban
35. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Representative Democracy
Schism
Thomas Jefferson
Canals
36. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Karl Marx
Renaissance
colonists
Bill of Rights
37. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
urban
Consent of the Governed
Marbury v. Madison
Bill of Rights
38. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Factory System
ratify
Urban
Mayflower Compact (1620)
39. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
Printing Press
1863 Emancipation Pro
standard of living
40. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Emancipation Proclamation
14th Amendment
Consent of the Governed
Protestant Reformation
41. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
14th Amendment
Bill of Rights
bias
Limited Government
42. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Republic
Justinian
Straits
Treaty of Paris 1783
43. Modern Constitution
U.S. Constitution
Capitalism/Market Economy
Checks and Balances
subsistence agriculture
44. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
Longitude
Printing Press
Suez Canal
45. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
Representative democracy
Parliament
House of Burgesses
46. Average number of years people live
Cottage industry
Life Expectancy
Popular Sovereignty
Articles of Confederation
47. Curbed States' Rights
Federalism
McCullough v. Maryland
English Bill of Rights
environment
48. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Magna Carta
veto
15th Amendment
1791
49. President of the United States during the Civil War
Magna Carta
Monotheism
Articles of Confederation
Abraham Lincoln
50. Exchange of goods and services.
era
Bartering
Republic
trade