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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Individual Rights
Adam Smith
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Consent of the Governed
2. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Cuneiform
Industrial Revolution
1776
Declaration of Indepen.
3. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Free - enterprise economic system
Plessy v. Ferguson
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill
4. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
95 Theses
Self Determination
House of Burgesses
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
5. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Latitude
1066
Winston Churchill
15th Amendment
6. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
suburban
Limited Government
Adam Smith
7. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
Factory System
Popular Sovereignty
15th Amendment
8. This is also referred to as a city
Enlightenment
Urban
Schism
Famine
9. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
George Washington
Parliament
Secularism
Famine
10. 1st written constitution
colonists
Fund. Order of Conn.
Draco
Fertile Crescent
11. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Polytheism
standard of living
Enlightenment
Civil War
12. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Latitude
federalism
Scientific Revolution
14th Amendment
13. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Commercial Agriculture
colonists
Montesquieu
Immigration patterns
14. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
nullify
13th Amendment
Subsistence economy
15. Exchange of goods and services.
Enlightenment
trade
Abraham Lincoln
Articles of Conf.
16. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Bartering
Mayflower Compact
Industrial Revolution
17. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Emancipation Proclamation
Imperialism
Industrial Revolution
Enlightenment
18. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Articles of Confederation
Cuneiform
1863 Emancipation Pro
Republicanism
19. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
ziggurats
imports
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Winston Churchill
20. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
era
urban
Nullification Crisis
Age of Exploration & Colonization
21. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
Adam Smith
1787
Federalist Papers
22. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Humanism
Bubonic Plague
Unconstitutional
Indulgences
23. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Age of Exploration & Colonization
primary source
Winston Churchill
Bill of Rights
24. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
Demographics
Winston Churchill
13th Amendment
25. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Ben Franklin
Natural Barriers
Basic Needs
Individual Rights
26. A written plan of government for the colonies created a weak league of 13 nearly independent states in 1777. The 1st Constitution of the U.S.
Articles of Confederation
Barriers
1066
Literacy Rate
27. Involving other countries
primary source
international
Basic Needs
Self Determination
28. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Bill of Rights
cottage industry
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Thomas Jefferson
29. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Founding of Jamestown
1787-1789
Schism
Enlightenment
30. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Unconstitutional
Monroe doctrine
Taxation
Enlightenment
31. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Winston Churchill
Crusaders
Separation of Powers .
Renaissance
32. Split in the church
Schism
Winston Churchill
Constitutional Monarchy
13th Amendment
33. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
secondary source
market - oriented agriculture
suburban
limited government
34. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Self Determination
Labor force
Land Ordinance of 1785
era
35. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Justinian
Articles of Confederation
Montesquieu
Abe Lincoln
36. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Emancipation Proclamation
Cottage industry
Traditional economy
Civil War
37. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
Factory System
Barriers
Protestant Reformation
38. Established Judicial Review.
Federalist Papers
Marbury v. Madison
nullify
Bubonic Plague
39. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
suffrage
U.S. Constitution
Federalist Papers
Anti - Federalist
40. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Abe Lincoln
Checks and Balances
Bill of Rights
Cotton Gin
41. Belief in one god
Abraham Lincoln
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Monotheism
End of Reconstruction
42. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Taxation
Federalist Papers
Limited Government
13th Amendment
43. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
international
market - oriented agriculture
Oligarchy
Popular Sovereignty
44. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Force Bill
Land Ordinance of 1785
End of Reconstruction
Constitutional Conv.
45. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Republicanism
Popular Sovereignty
Federalism
Anti - Federalists
46. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Humanism
Taxation
Limited Government
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
47. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Cotton Gin
The Senate
Bill of Rights
standard of living
48. 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
Cuneiform
Free - enterprise economic system
Imperialism
49. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Factory System
Indulgences
The Nullification Crisis
Declaration of Indepen.
50. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Emancipation Proclamation
unalienable
Checks and Balances