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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Latitude
market - oriented agriculture
Mayflower Compact
Declaration of Indepen.
2. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Indulgences
domestic
1787
Humanism
3. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Age of Reason
Popular Sovereignty
Industrial Revolution
Anti - Federalist
4. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Limited Government
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Inalienable/Unalienable
1215
5. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Crusaders
cottage industry
Mayflower Compact (1620)
English Bill of Rights
6. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Marbury v. Madison
Winston Churchill
13th Amendment
Justinian
7. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Hammurabi
Representative democracy
Demographics
George Washington
8. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Winston Churchill
Andean civilization
1776
Federalist Papers
9. 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.
secondary source
Standard of living
Force Bill
House of Burgesses
10. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Totalitarianism
English Bill of Rights
The Nullification Crisis
Bill of Rights
11. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Demographics
subsistence agriculture
Consent of the Governed
Indulgences
12. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Adam Smith
Representative democracy
Inalienable/Unalienable
Magnetic Compass
13. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
15th Amendment
Secularism
Subsistence agriculture
14. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Printing Press
Declaration of Independence
Winston Churchill
Monroe doctrine
15. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
tariff
John Locke
McCullough v. Maryland
Suez Canal
16. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Commercial Agriculture
Secularism
The Senate
Bartering
17. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Declaration of Indepen.
Self Determination
Subsistence agriculture
Industrialization
18. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Oligarchy
English Bill of Rights
1863 Emancipation Pro
cottage industry
19. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Natural Barriers
Declaration of Independence
Adam Smith
Anti - Federalists
20. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Natural Barriers
Literacy Rate
Industrialization
21. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Cuneiform
rural
Nullification Crisis
Checks and Balances
22. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Winston Churchill
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Panama Canal
23. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Magna Carta
1066
Humanism
George Washington
24. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Bill of Rights
Cuneiform
Free - enterprise economic system
Republicanism
25. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
15th Amendment
colonists
Treaty of Paris 1783
26. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Federalism
Ben Franklin
14th Amendment
27. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Declaration of Indepen.
Emancipation Proclamation
Anti - Federalists
Marbury v. Madison
28. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
limited government
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
Renaissance
29. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
John Locke
Literacy Rate
Standard of living
Adam Smith
30. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Scientific Revolution
Henry Ford
veto
Republicanism
31. 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.
Adam Smith
1787
Magna Carta
market - oriented agriculture
32. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Marbury v. Madison
King George III
(naval) blockade
Atlantic Slave Trade
33. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Checks and Balances
Henry Ford
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
suburban
34. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
George Washington
Self Determination
Winston Churchill
limited government
35. Exchange of goods and services.
Land Ordinance of 1785
Columbian Exchange
English Bill of Rights
trade
36. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
nullify
Federalism
Mesoamerica civilizations
Monroe doctrine
37. Mass production of food
Winston Churchill
Checks and Balances
Checks and Balances
Commercial Agriculture
38. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Straits of Hormuz
George Washington
Mayflower Compact
Emancipation Proclamation
39. Established Judicial Review.
Literacy Rate
Marbury v. Madison
End of Reconstruction
unalienable
40. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Straits of Hormuz
Emancipation Proclamation
End of Reconstruction
Republic
41. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Cuneiform
Self Determination
Constitutional Conv.
John Locke
42. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Treaty of Paris 1783
Bill of Rights
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Straits
43. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
McCullough v. Maryland
Enlightenment
Separation of Powers .
Age of Exploration & Colonization
44. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
suffrage
Karl Marx
Canals
English Bill of Rights
45. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Republicanism
Fertile Crescent
Federalist
primary source
46. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
95 Theses
John Locke
13th Amendment
Separation of Powers
47. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Industrialization
Nationalism
Articles of Confederation
Middle Ages
48. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Marbury v. Madison
Absolute Monarchy
Fund. Order of Conn.
Articles of Conf.
49. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Bill of Rights
Direct Democracy
Longitude
urban
50. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Columbian Exchange
Separation of Powers
15th Amendment
amendment