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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. President of the United States during the Civil War
Absolute Monarchy
Abraham Lincoln
suffrage
Suez Canal
2. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Protestant Reformation
suburban
13th Amendment
3. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Separation of Powers
Cuneiform
Standard of living
Straits of Hormuz
4. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
unalienable
Marbury v. Madison
Force Bill
1066
5. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
rural
Taxation
Adam Smith
6. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Imperialism
amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
7. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Republicanism
Capitalism/Market Economy
Founding of Jamestown
Thomas Jefferson
8. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Constitutional Conv.
Separation of Powers .
1066
Anti - Federalists
9. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Unconstitutional
Self Determination
Industrialization
Direct Democracy
10. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
States Rights
John Locke
Bill of Rights
Cottage industry
11. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Abe Lincoln
Plessy v. Ferguson
Consent of the Governed
Adam Smith
12. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Individual Rights
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Protestant Reformation
cultural diffusion
13. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
John Locke
Magna Carta
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Mayflower Compact
14. Officially ended the American Revolution
Latitude
Silk Road
Indulgences
Treaty of Paris 1783
15. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
ratify
Subsistence agriculture
Fund. Order of Conn.
14th Amendment
16. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
House of Burgesses
Suez Canal
nullify
The Nullification Crisis
17. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Henry Ford
Federalism
King George III
Longitude
18. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Abraham Lincoln
Republicanism
1863 Emancipation Pro
15th Amendment
19. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Natural Barriers
tariff
Parliament
Industrialization
20. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
1787
Founding of Jamestown
Latitude
Thomas Jefferson
21. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
era
Self Determination
Cotton Gin
Magna Carta
22. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Magna Carta
15th Amendment
Andean civilization
Representative Government
23. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
McCullough v. Maryland
Henry Ford
Federalism
rural
24. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Immigration patterns
Draco
Abe Lincoln
Direct Democracy
25. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Winston Churchill
Natural Barriers
1215
federalism
26. 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.
Fund. Order of Conn.
Thomas Jefferson
rural
Checks and Balances
27. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Subsistence agriculture
Marbury v. Madison
Individual Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
28. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Cathedrals
States Rights
Abraham Lincoln
Straits
29. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
Separation of Powers .
Founding of Jamestown
Popular Sovereignty
30. Having to do with one's own homeland
Factory System
English Bill of Rights
domestic
Fertile Crescent
31. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Anti - Federalist
Nationalism
Straits of Hormuz
32. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Justinian
Nationalism
Imperialism
Henry Ford
33. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Latitude
Thomas Jefferson
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Abraham Lincoln
34. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
limited government
Popular Sovereignty
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Marbury v. Madison
35. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Bill of Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785
Factory System
Migration
36. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
1863 Emancipation Pro
Representative Government
Individual Rights
37. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
Magnetic Compass
Bartering
1791
38. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
House of Burgesses
Land Ordinance of 1785
Articles of Conf.
39. 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.
Cottage industry
environment
Direct Democracy
primary source
40. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Marbury v. Madison
Mayflower Compact (1620)
The Nullification Crisis
Civil War
41. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Capitalism/Market Economy
Bill of Rights
Longitude
cottage industry
42. Pride in ones country
Suez Canal
Nationalism
Federalist Papers
amendment
43. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Federalist
Emancipation Proclamation
Renaissance
Separation of Powers
44. Exchange of goods and services.
Demographics
international
trade
Literacy Rate
45. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Representative Government
Latitude
Adam Smith
Plessy v. Ferguson
46. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Civil War
(naval) blockade
Individual Rights
trade
47. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Popular Sovereignty
14th Amendment
Civil War 1861-1865
Individual Rights
48. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
House of Burgesses
Individual Rights
Columbian Exchange
49. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
trade
Federalist Papers
Federalism
Individual Rights
50. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
14th Amendment
English Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
Mayflower Compact (1620)