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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
House of Burgesses
Silk Road
Atlantic Slave Trade
George Washington
2. Split in the church
Magnetic Compass
Thomas Jefferson
Schism
Brown v. Board of Edu.
3. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
1791
Popular Sovereignty
Limited Government
Bill of Rights
4. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
1863 Emancipation Pro
Marbury v. Madison
Representative democracy
Karl Marx
5. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
End of Reconstruction
Natural Barriers
6. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
primary source
George Washington
Columbian Exchange
Civil War
7. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Magnetic Compass
Theocracy
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Latitude
8. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
Federalism
Enlightenment
Articles of Conf.
9. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Civil War
1776
Thomas Jefferson
95 Theses
10. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
tariff
Federalism
Consent of the Governed
95 Theses
11. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
1791
Per Capita Income
standard of living
Silk Road
12. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Hammurabi
Limited Government
Mesoamerica civilizations
Iron Curtain
13. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Justinian
limited government
Separation of Powers
Ben Franklin
14. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Straits
Migration
Emancipation Proclamation
Crusaders
15. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Standard of living
Cuneiform
International Trade
Articles of Confederation
16. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
George Washington
limited government
Oligarchy
environment
17. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
Industrial Revolution
exports
15th Amendment
18. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Popular Sovereignty
Longitude
The Nullification Crisis
The Senate
19. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Representative Government
Migration
Factory System
Individual Rights
20. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Bill of Rights
Industrialized
Cotton Gin
Industrialization
21. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Secularism
Subsistence economy
bias
amendment
22. Making goods out of the home
Bill of Rights
Cottage industry
suburban
English Bill of Rights
23. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Checks and Balances
environment
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Thomas Jefferson
24. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Winston Churchill
U.S. Constitution
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
95 Theses
25. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Emancipation Proclamation
bias
13th Amendment
26. 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.
Secularism
1787
bias
1066
27. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Cottage industry
Justinian
1215
28. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Emancipation Proclamation
Ben Franklin
Separation of Powers .
Famine
29. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Bartering
Standard of living
Magna Carta
Industrialization
30. Exchange of goods and services.
market - oriented agriculture
trade
Columbian Exchange
federalism
31. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Industrial Revolution
Inalienable/Unalienable
Columbian Exchange
Mayflower Compact (1620)
32. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Federalism
nullify
George Washington
Articles of Confederation
33. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Panama Canal
George Washington
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Republic
34. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Articles of Conf.
Civil War
Demographics
rural
35. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Mayflower Compact
rural
Communism/Command Economy
Federalist Papers
36. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Bill of Rights
ziggurats
Popular Sovereignty
Federalism
37. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Checks and Balances
Taxation
George Washington
15th Amendment
38. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Enlightenment
Immigration patterns
Renaissance
amendment
39. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Communism/Command Economy
1776
1066
Basic Needs
40. A government that elects its leaders
English Bill of Rights
Republic
13th Amendment
George Washington
41. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
English Bill of Rights
Representative Government
Henry Ford
Cathedrals
42. 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.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Abe Lincoln
Force Bill
Subsistence economy
43. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Republic
Parliament
The Nullification Crisis
Adam Smith
44. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Suez Canal
Representative Government
George Washington
Subsistence agriculture
45. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
15th Amendment
Monotheism
Self Determination
Totalitarianism
46. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
Polytheism
Federalism
13th Amendment
47. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1791
1787-1789
Bartering
Magna Carta
48. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Imperialism
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Migration
Bill of Rights
49. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
ratify
Standard of living
colonists
Cotton Gin
50. Modern Constitution
cottage industry
15th Amendment
U.S. Constitution
Mayflower Compact (1620)