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TAKS 10th Grade World History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. President of the United States during the Civil War






2. Average number of years people live






3. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)






4. Involving other countries






5. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers






6. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.






7. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.






8. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.






9. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.






10. Economic thinker that supported capitalism






11. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea






12. Curbed States' Rights






13. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops






14. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth






15. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.






16. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.






17. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.






18. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism






19. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'






20. Opposed to the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government and not enough to the states. They also wanted individual rights protected






21. Mass production of food






22. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches






23. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.






24. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over






25. Routes of human movement from one area into another.






26. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.






27. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)






28. Belief in many gods






29. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.






30. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed






31. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.






32. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.






33. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled






34. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.






35. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.






36. Established Judicial Review.






37. Limited the power of the King in 1215






38. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'






39. 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.






40. Average income per person






41. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth






42. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans






43. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.






44. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase






45. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic






46. Banned slavery throughout the nation.






47. 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






48. Relating to the city - of or in a city.






49. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.






50. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights