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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
1776
Civil War 1861-1865
era
Suez Canal
2. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Representative Government
1776
Subsistence economy
Factory System
3. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
cultural diffusion
Secularism
Republic
13th Amendment
4. 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
standard of living
Articles of Conf.
Infant Mortality
5. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Popular Sovereignty
Bill of Rights
Federalism
Karl Marx
6. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Parliament
Bubonic Plague
Industrialized
15th Amendment
7. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Articles of Conf.
Renaissance
Migration
Limited Government
8. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
1787-1789
domestic
Henry Ford
Printing Press
9. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Popular Sovereignty
level of development
cottage industry
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
10. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
95 Theses
Abraham Lincoln
Latitude
End of Reconstruction
11. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.
Mayflower Compact
1787
exports
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
12. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
The Senate
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Montesquieu
15th Amendment
13. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Magna Carta
1066
Magnetic Compass
Per Capita Income
14. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
House of Burgesses
Republic
Industrialized
15. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
Urban
Bill of Rights
1787-1789
16. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Anti - Federalists
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Justinian
market - oriented agriculture
17. Who opposed the Constitution?
Enlightenment
Anti - Federalists
Thomas Jefferson
Adam Smith
18. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Individual Rights
Brown v. Board of Edu.
market - oriented agriculture
The Nullification Crisis
19. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
trade
George Washington
Articles of Confederation
End of Reconstruction
20. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
Founding of Jamestown
1787
Middle Ages
21. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Bill of Rights
limited government
14th Amendment
Literacy Rate
22. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Enlightenment
Representative democracy
limited government
Checks and Balances
23. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
13th Amendment
Middle Ages
Civil War
Magna Carta
24. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Cathedrals
Federalist Papers
Federalist
Republicanism
25. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Republicanism
Age of Reason
Traditional economy
Federalism
26. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
1787-1789
Suez Canal
15th Amendment
27. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe doctrine
Articles of Conf.
level of development
Nationalism
28. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Middle Ages
Life Expectancy
Mesoamerica civilizations
Secularism
29. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Iron Curtain
Enlightenment
Separation of Powers
Scientific Revolution
30. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Industrial Revolution
Iron Curtain
Civil War
English Bill of Rights
31. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Iron Curtain
House of Burgesses
Separation of Powers .
Oligarchy
32. Average income per person
Bill of Rights
Demographics
Per Capita Income
Representative democracy
33. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
15th Amendment
Marbury v. Madison
Theocracy
Bartering
34. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
(naval) blockade
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Articles of Confederation
Mayflower Compact
35. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Enlightenment
Individual Rights
suburban
Republic
36. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Cuneiform
nullify
1787-1789
Winston Churchill
37. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Middle Ages
14th Amendment
Mayflower Compact
1787-1789
38. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
suffrage
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Latitude
Oligarchy
39. Having to do with one's own homeland
Mayflower Compact (1620)
domestic
Printing Press
Federalist Papers
40. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Commercial Agriculture
1776
Bubonic Plague
cottage industry
41. 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
Labor force
Communism/Command Economy
Subsistence agriculture
tariff
42. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Anti - Federalists
English Bill of Rights
1787-1789
Industrialization
43. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
15th Amendment
Urban
Winston Churchill
Republicanism
44. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Scientific Revolution
Ben Franklin
international
Secularism
45. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Karl Marx
grievance
Federalist
Parliament
46. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Republic
King George III
exports
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
47. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
14th Amendment
Straits of Hormuz
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Secularism
48. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Latitude
McCullough v. Maryland
Thomas Jefferson
49. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Declaration of Indepen.
Nullification Crisis
Marbury v. Madison
Checks and Balances
50. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Silk Road
Draco
Nationalism
imports