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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Involving other countries
Montesquieu
international
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Enlightenment
2. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Natural Barriers
Industrialization
Cathedrals
bias
3. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Protestant Reformation
bias
Subsistence economy
1791
4. Modern Constitution
Silk Road
U.S. Constitution
Imperialism
Self Determination
5. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Polytheism
urban
Republic
Individual Rights
6. 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
Columbian Exchange
Iron Curtain
Atlantic Slave Trade
Per Capita Income
7. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Republic
Popular Sovereignty
Articles of Confederation
8. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Mayflower Compact
Plessy v. Ferguson
Suez Canal
Commercial Agriculture
9. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
secondary source
English Bill of Rights
environment
House of Burgesses
10. King of England during the American Revolution.
15th Amendment
King George III
citizen
Karl Marx
11. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
environment
Draco
Individual Rights
English Bill of Rights
12. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Land Ordinance of 1785
Karl Marx
suburban
Crusaders
13. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Constitutional Conv.
suburban
rural
14. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
Fund. Order of Conn.
Suez Canal
Bill of Rights
15. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Fertile Crescent
Cathedrals
Separation of Powers .
Hammurabi
16. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
13th Amendment
standard of living
Adam Smith
Nationalism
17. Belief in one god
Monotheism
Subsistence economy
Civil War
Force Bill
18. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Urban
subsistence agriculture
colonists
Popular Sovereignty
19. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Cotton Gin
Parliament
market - oriented agriculture
suffrage
20. 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.
nullify
Plessy v. Ferguson
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Checks and Balances
21. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Latitude
Bill of Rights
Republicanism
1787-1789
22. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Treaty of Paris 1783
Declaration of Independence
McCullough v. Maryland
Civil War
23. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
cultural diffusion
Magna Carta
Justinian
Middle Ages
24. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
veto
Nullification Crisis
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Popular Sovereignty
25. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
international
Direct Democracy
Nullification Crisis
Ben Franklin
26. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Communism/Command Economy
Imperialism
Emancipation Proclamation
Parliament
27. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Longitude
Fund. Order of Conn.
George Washington
Demographics
28. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
1787
Republicanism
Protestant Reformation
29. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Capitalism/Market Economy
Magna Carta
Enlightenment
Declaration of Independence
30. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Andean civilization
Mesoamerica civilizations
Marbury v. Madison
Inalienable/Unalienable
31. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Plessy v. Ferguson
Urban
Basic Needs
Brown v. Board of Edu.
32. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
Cathedrals
95 Theses
Scientific Revolution
33. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Checks and Balances
Polytheism
Justinian
14th Amendment
34. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Civil War 1861-1865
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Longitude
35. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
Cottage industry
95 Theses
Migration
36. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Magna Carta
Unconstitutional
Mayflower Compact
Basic Needs
37. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
13th Amendment
Absolute Monarchy
Andean civilization
Magnetic Compass
38. Average number of years people live
Life Expectancy
Self Determination
Civil War 1861-1865
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
39. 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
Anti - Federalist
grievance
Individual Rights
Panama Canal
40. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Civil War
Abe Lincoln
International Trade
1787
41. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
End of Reconstruction
Civil War
Subsistence agriculture
primary source
42. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Immigration patterns
13th Amendment
English Bill of Rights
Montesquieu
43. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Individual Rights
Ben Franklin
imports
44. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Cathedrals
Crusaders
Printing Press
45. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
imports
Land Ordinance of 1785
Articles of Confederation
46. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
13th Amendment
Age of Reason
Mesoamerica civilizations
Cuneiform
47. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Industrial Revolution
Land Ordinance of 1785
limited government
15th Amendment
48. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
Taxation
primary source
Draco
Abraham Lincoln
49. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Republic
English Bill of Rights
Subsistence economy
(naval) blockade
50. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Henry Ford
The Nullification Crisis
environment
Mayflower Compact (1620)