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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Federalist
Land Ordinance of 1785
Montesquieu
2. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
13th Amendment
George Washington
Individual Rights
bias
3. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
level of development
Polytheism
Abe Lincoln
4. Curbed States' Rights
environment
The Nullification Crisis
McCullough v. Maryland
Civil War
5. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Totalitarianism
Karl Marx
domestic
6. Split in the church
environment
Schism
Magna Carta
Bubonic Plague
7. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Mayflower Compact
Anti - Federalist
Factory System
8. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
urban
Industrial Revolution
Humanism
Taxation
9. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
bias
Free - enterprise economic system
States Rights
Anti - Federalists
10. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Separation of Powers .
Literacy Rate
Unconstitutional
Humanism
11. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Immigration patterns
Declaration of Independence
imports
Individual Rights
12. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
Declaration of Independence
15th Amendment
Demographics
13. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Anti - Federalist
Bubonic Plague
(naval) blockade
nullify
14. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
1066
Marbury v. Madison
Factory System
Crusaders
15. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Civil War
Civil War
1791
16. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Force Bill
Subsistence agriculture
Monotheism
Representative democracy
17. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Nationalism
John Locke
1776
Totalitarianism
18. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
cottage industry
Republicanism
Federalism
level of development
19. People who settle and live in a colony
The Senate
Representative Government
Canals
colonists
20. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Mesoamerica civilizations
Republic
Traditional economy
Plessy v. Ferguson
21. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Industrialization
1066
market - oriented agriculture
Totalitarianism
22. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Industrialization
Popular Sovereignty
nullify
market - oriented agriculture
23. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Mayflower Compact
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Magnetic Compass
Declaration of Independence
24. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Henry Ford
Straits of Hormuz
Declaration of Independence
Adam Smith
25. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Cuneiform
Hammurabi
standard of living
Life Expectancy
26. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
Taxation
Draco
27. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Parliament
imports
Crusaders
domestic
28. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
limited government
Enlightenment
Draco
Checks and Balances
29. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Representative Government
English Bill of Rights
Montesquieu
tariff
30. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Federalist
1776
grievance
15th Amendment
31. Tax on imports and exports.
tariff
House of Burgesses
Plessy v. Ferguson
veto
32. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Republic
(naval) blockade
Nullification Crisis
Land Ordinance of 1785
33. 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
Constitutional Monarchy
Unconstitutional
Silk Road
Thomas Jefferson
34. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
Force Bill
Bubonic Plague
limited government
35. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Direct Democracy
1791
Federalism
Fund. Order of Conn.
36. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Magnetic Compass
Federalist Papers
trade
citizen
37. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Justinian
exports
Industrialized
era
38. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
English Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
urban
Bill of Rights
39. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
1787
Federalist Papers
Abraham Lincoln
Humanism
40. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Schism
Limited Government
41. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
Articles of Confederation
Adam Smith
Republicanism
42. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Middle Ages
15th Amendment
Parliament
Articles of Confederation
43. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Marbury v. Madison
Demographics
Ben Franklin
Panama Canal
44. King of England during the American Revolution.
Thomas Jefferson
King George III
1791
Magna Carta
45. 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
Cotton Gin
14th Amendment
Panama Canal
46. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Popular Sovereignty
Absolute Monarchy
Consent of the Governed
Cotton Gin
47. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
tariff
Bubonic Plague
15th Amendment
Federalism
48. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Magnetic Compass
End of Reconstruction
Plessy v. Ferguson
Emancipation Proclamation
49. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
domestic
tariff
George Washington
Printing Press
50. Economic thinker that developed communism
Federalism
1863 Emancipation Pro
Karl Marx
Constitutional Monarchy