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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Longitude
(naval) blockade
Columbian Exchange
2. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
1776
Henry Ford
Cottage industry
trade
3. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Emancipation Proclamation
Famine
Monotheism
Limited Government
4. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Fertile Crescent
1215
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Silk Road
5. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Henry Ford
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Printing Press
Force Bill
6. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Checks and Balances
Magnetic Compass
Literacy Rate
Cuneiform
7. Who opposed the Constitution?
standard of living
Anti - Federalists
Mayflower Compact
Brown v. Board of Edu.
8. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
Barriers
Traditional economy
era
9. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Basic Needs
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
14th Amendment
10. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Limited Government
Republicanism
Irrigation Canals
Consent of the Governed
11. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
13th Amendment
Bubonic Plague
Magna Carta
15th Amendment
12. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
English Bill of Rights
Articles of Conf.
Andean civilization
suburban
13. President of the United States during the Civil War
Immigration patterns
Republicanism
Land Ordinance of 1785
Abraham Lincoln
14. 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
15th Amendment
Silk Road
Self Determination
Industrialized
15. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Federalism
States Rights
End of Reconstruction
Parliament
16. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
1791
standard of living
Individual Rights
Declaration of Indepen.
17. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
The Senate
urban
federalism
Labor force
18. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Checks and Balances
Industrial Revolution
Separation of Powers .
Age of Exploration & Colonization
19. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Winston Churchill
Checks and Balances
95 Theses
Montesquieu
20. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Industrial Revolution
Protestant Reformation
Civil War 1861-1865
Marbury v. Madison
21. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Popular Sovereignty
Straits
Parliament
Individual Rights
22. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.
1787
Crusaders
Abe Lincoln
Cotton Gin
23. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
The Senate
Atlantic Slave Trade
Hammurabi
Industrialization
24. Modern Constitution
U.S. Constitution
ziggurats
Middle Ages
Irrigation Canals
25. Complaints
ziggurats
Irrigation Canals
Schism
grievance
26. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Federalism
The Senate
27. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Republic
Unconstitutional
Atlantic Slave Trade
Traditional economy
28. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Federalist Papers
Latitude
Parliament
Bill of Rights
29. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Subsistence agriculture
rural
Limited Government
Monroe doctrine
30. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
1066
imports
Panama Canal
Limited Government
31. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
George Washington
Factory System
Theocracy
Declaration of Independence
32. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Per Capita Income
Imperialism
Bill of Rights
Nullification Crisis
33. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Communism/Command Economy
Enlightenment
Constitutional Monarchy
Magna Carta
34. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Traditional economy
Latitude
English Bill of Rights
Enlightenment
35. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
John Locke
Marbury v. Madison
level of development
Articles of Confederation
36. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Taxation
standard of living
Direct Democracy
37. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
The Senate
rural
Factory System
38. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Factory System
Constitutional Monarchy
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Popular Sovereignty
39. Government where the religious leader run the government
Declaration of Independence
imports
Factory System
Theocracy
40. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Henry Ford
Mesoamerica civilizations
Oligarchy
Printing Press
41. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
suburban
Printing Press
urban
international
42. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Plessy v. Ferguson
English Bill of Rights
Renaissance
Atlantic Slave Trade
43. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Industrialization
Demographics
Plessy v. Ferguson
Age of Reason
44. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Bill of Rights
15th Amendment
Monroe doctrine
45. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
primary source
Nullification Crisis
Renaissance
Panama Canal
46. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
era
95 Theses
Imperialism
unalienable
47. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
tariff
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Fertile Crescent
95 Theses
48. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Winston Churchill
Federalism
Mesoamerica civilizations
citizen
49. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Suez Canal
Immigration patterns
Individual Rights
Printing Press
50. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Articles of Confederation
Humanism
primary source
Age of Exploration & Colonization