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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
suffrage
Founding of Jamestown
Middle Ages
2. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Monotheism
George Washington
14th Amendment
standard of living
3. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
English Bill of Rights
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Abe Lincoln
Articles of Conf.
4. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Individual Rights
Straits of Hormuz
Industrial Revolution
Straits
5. 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.
Representative democracy
Thomas Jefferson
Articles of Confederation
international
6. Tax on imports and exports.
tariff
Consent of the Governed
Canals
Limited Government
7. King/queen who has unlimited power
Bubonic Plague
Absolute Monarchy
U.S. Constitution
1791
8. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
Basic Needs
Protestant Reformation
Labor force
9. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
Irrigation Canals
Demographics
Magna Carta
10. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Civil War
Anti - Federalists
Free - enterprise economic system
1066
11. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
King George III
Limited Government
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Cottage industry
12. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Civil War
level of development
Cotton Gin
nullify
13. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Marbury v. Madison
Imperialism
grievance
Federalism
14. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
amendment
Protestant Reformation
End of Reconstruction
The Nullification Crisis
15. Member of a country.
Irrigation Canals
environment
States Rights
citizen
16. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
citizen
cottage industry
Emancipation Proclamation
States Rights
17. 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
Magna Carta
Cottage industry
Crusaders
Middle Ages
18. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Indulgences
Migration
Magna Carta
era
19. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
John Locke
Iron Curtain
Marbury v. Madison
Monotheism
20. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Literacy Rate
ziggurats
Longitude
Subsistence economy
21. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
Abraham Lincoln
international
Justinian
22. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Theocracy
Constitutional Conv.
Secularism
Demographics
23. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Thomas Jefferson
13th Amendment
Imperialism
Magnetic Compass
24. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
Free - enterprise economic system
Subsistence agriculture
Industrialized
25. 1st written constitution
urban
Fund. Order of Conn.
Articles of Confederation
Panama Canal
26. Belief in one god
Panama Canal
Monotheism
Theocracy
Nullification Crisis
27. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Civil War 1861-1865
grievance
Suez Canal
Emancipation Proclamation
28. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Age of Reason
Thomas Jefferson
Civil War 1861-1865
Standard of living
29. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
1066
Justinian
Fund. Order of Conn.
Nullification Crisis
30. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Latitude
1787-1789
English Bill of Rights
Monotheism
31. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
tariff
Self Determination
era
Monroe doctrine
32. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Famine
suburban
Constitutional Monarchy
Age of Reason
33. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Civil War
Theocracy
King George III
Factory System
34. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Articles of Confederation
Migration
Inalienable/Unalienable
1215
35. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Checks and Balances
English Bill of Rights
Taxation
Scientific Revolution
36. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
ziggurats
cottage industry
Bartering
Founding of Jamestown
37. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Subsistence economy
The Nullification Crisis
subsistence agriculture
38. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Literacy Rate
Monroe doctrine
15th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
39. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Subsistence agriculture
Nullification Crisis
Magna Carta
Sub - Saharan Africa .
40. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Montesquieu
Age of Exploration & Colonization
13th Amendment
Literacy Rate
41. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Theocracy
level of development
Henry Ford
Mesoamerica civilizations
42. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
House of Burgesses
Constitutional Monarchy
Bartering
The Nullification Crisis
43. First organizing of 13 colonies.
(naval) blockade
Articles of Conf.
Silk Road
secondary source
44. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
George Washington
End of Reconstruction
tariff
Land Ordinance of 1785
45. People who settle and live in a colony
era
Free - enterprise economic system
colonists
International Trade
46. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Federalist
Hammurabi
Humanism
Limited Government
47. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Bill of Rights
standard of living
Silk Road
48. 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
Silk Road
Founding of Jamestown
Protestant Reformation
Adam Smith
49. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Plessy v. Ferguson
Monotheism
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Canals
50. Making goods out of the home
The Senate
Capitalism/Market Economy
Protestant Reformation
Cottage industry