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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Fertile Crescent
citizen
Ben Franklin
2. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Literacy Rate
Justinian
Indulgences
Fund. Order of Conn.
3. Mass production of food
Commercial Agriculture
Demographics
Bill of Rights
Republicanism
4. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
limited government
veto
Schism
Cotton Gin
5. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
English Bill of Rights
14th Amendment
Separation of Powers .
Age of Reason
6. 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
Hammurabi
Silk Road
Enlightenment
Subsistence agriculture
7. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
Representative democracy
Columbian Exchange
Force Bill
Nullification Crisis
8. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
13th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Cotton Gin
English Bill of Rights
9. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Unconstitutional
Emancipation Proclamation
George Washington
Inalienable/Unalienable
10. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
Mayflower Compact (1620)
House of Burgesses
Industrial Revolution
11. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Self Determination
Traditional economy
Urban
12. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Thomas Jefferson
English Bill of Rights
international
Andean civilization
13. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Columbian Exchange
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Indulgences
nullify
14. Split in the church
15th Amendment
1787-1789
tariff
Schism
15. Member of a country.
Industrial Revolution
Per Capita Income
citizen
nullify
16. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
1215
Imperialism
ratify
Henry Ford
17. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Urban
English Bill of Rights
Adam Smith
1776
18. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
domestic
Indulgences
1863 Emancipation Pro
House of Burgesses
19. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Cottage industry
Adam Smith
cottage industry
20. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Free - enterprise economic system
Abraham Lincoln
Magna Carta
Declaration of Indepen.
21. A government that elects its leaders
Atlantic Slave Trade
George Washington
Republic
The Nullification Crisis
22. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Totalitarianism
Basic Needs
Cathedrals
Mayflower Compact (1620)
23. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Representative democracy
Plessy v. Ferguson
cottage industry
95 Theses
24. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Articles of Conf.
Secularism
House of Burgesses
Enlightenment
25. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
Draco
Industrial Revolution
Communism/Command Economy
Protestant Reformation
26. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
grievance
rural
Longitude
Federalism
27. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Constitutional Conv.
End of Reconstruction
Federalism
Founding of Jamestown
28. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Natural Barriers
Brown v. Board of Edu.
colonists
Unconstitutional
29. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
tariff
Civil War 1861-1865
Mayflower Compact
Consent of the Governed
30. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
1066
federalism
environment
Atlantic Slave Trade
31. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Declaration of Indepen.
Canals
Self Determination
Emancipation Proclamation
32. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Magna Carta
Marbury v. Madison
Republic
primary source
33. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Nullification Crisis
Republicanism
Protestant Reformation
environment
34. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Representative Government
Bill of Rights
Thomas Jefferson
Anti - Federalists
35. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Famine
Self Determination
Constitutional Monarchy
market - oriented agriculture
36. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
Communism/Command Economy
Standard of living
standard of living
37. Established Judicial Review.
Barriers
Capitalism/Market Economy
Bubonic Plague
Marbury v. Madison
38. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Totalitarianism
English Bill of Rights
Iron Curtain
Industrial Revolution
39. Average number of years people live
Individual Rights
13th Amendment
Life Expectancy
unalienable
40. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Limited Government
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Bill of Rights
Irrigation Canals
41. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Consent of the Governed
Free - enterprise economic system
McCullough v. Maryland
Crusaders
42. These slow down movement/migration
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Justinian
Barriers
George Washington
43. First representative assembly in American
Iron Curtain
Consent of the Governed
Brown v. Board of Edu.
House of Burgesses
44. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
citizen
Andean civilization
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Free - enterprise economic system
45. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Iron Curtain
Suez Canal
Limited Government
English Bill of Rights
46. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
95 Theses
Treaty of Paris 1783
Longitude
47. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Magna Carta
Abraham Lincoln
Bill of Rights
Constitutional Conv.
48. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Standard of living
Irrigation Canals
Printing Press
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
49. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Suez Canal
standard of living
Checks and Balances
Declaration of Indepen.
50. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Henry Ford
Federalist
Commercial Agriculture
Plessy v. Ferguson