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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Per Capita Income
federalism
Anti - Federalists
cultural diffusion
2. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Cotton Gin
Industrial Revolution
Emancipation Proclamation
Consent of the Governed
3. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
imports
John Locke
Renaissance
(naval) blockade
4. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
nullify
trade
Monotheism
5. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Enlightenment
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Traditional economy
cultural diffusion
6. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
environment
13th Amendment
Protestant Reformation
7. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Panama Canal
Civil War
Famine
Treaty of Paris 1783
8. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Treaty of Paris 1783
veto
Direct Democracy
Fund. Order of Conn.
9. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Justinian
Literacy Rate
Republicanism
market - oriented agriculture
10. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
bias
Industrialized
Bill of Rights
1215
11. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.
Justinian
Longitude
Force Bill
primary source
12. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Constitutional Monarchy
Federalist
Straits
Civil War 1861-1865
13. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Land Ordinance of 1785
Cathedrals
Enlightenment
Life Expectancy
14. Mass production of food
Mayflower Compact
Commercial Agriculture
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Indepen.
15. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Bubonic Plague
Cathedrals
Magnetic Compass
Founding of Jamestown
16. A government that elects its leaders
King George III
Mayflower Compact
Theocracy
Republic
17. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Founding of Jamestown
Irrigation Canals
George Washington
Adam Smith
18. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
13th Amendment
Cuneiform
Constitutional Monarchy
Inalienable/Unalienable
19. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
House of Burgesses
Straits of Hormuz
Checks and Balances
20. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Checks and Balances
Andean civilization
Adam Smith
Industrial Revolution
21. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
George Washington
urban
Bartering
Schism
22. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
tariff
Imperialism
Immigration patterns
Per Capita Income
23. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Traditional economy
Montesquieu
Barriers
Cathedrals
24. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Nullification Crisis
Mesoamerica civilizations
Bill of Rights
Draco
25. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
Henry Ford
Checks and Balances
Mesoamerica civilizations
Anti - Federalists
26. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Protestant Reformation
Commercial Agriculture
Labor force
Magna Carta
27. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Capitalism/Market Economy
Republic
Founding of Jamestown
Renaissance
28. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Adam Smith
Cottage industry
Industrialized
urban
29. Having to do with one's own homeland
(naval) blockade
Winston Churchill
Industrial Revolution
domestic
30. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Natural Barriers
Urban
International Trade
Federalism
31. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Bartering
Infant Mortality
Articles of Conf.
Treaty of Paris 1783
32. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Articles of Confederation
Civil War
market - oriented agriculture
Federalist Papers
33. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Parliament
Draco
nullify
rural
34. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Checks and Balances
The Nullification Crisis
exports
Articles of Confederation
35. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
era
Montesquieu
veto
Henry Ford
36. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
13th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
Separation of Powers
Protestant Reformation
37. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
13th Amendment
Latitude
Parliament
Republicanism
38. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Bubonic Plague
Separation of Powers .
Constitutional Monarchy
Marbury v. Madison
39. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Subsistence economy
Irrigation Canals
Plessy v. Ferguson
Adam Smith
40. Split in the church
Indulgences
Checks and Balances
Schism
Silk Road
41. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Basic Needs
Traditional economy
era
42. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Hammurabi
Federalist
Secularism
Emancipation Proclamation
43. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Emancipation Proclamation
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Totalitarianism
grievance
44. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Anti - Federalist
Thomas Jefferson
rural
Constitutional Conv.
45. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Consent of the Governed
Straits of Hormuz
Hammurabi
46. 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.
Cuneiform
Free - enterprise economic system
Middle Ages
Canals
47. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Panama Canal
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Andean civilization
Secularism
48. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
House of Burgesses
rural
(naval) blockade
veto
49. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Declaration of Independence
15th Amendment
Federalist
13th Amendment
50. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Ben Franklin
George Washington
Industrialized
ratify