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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Inalienable/Unalienable
Declaration of Independence
Nullification Crisis
Bill of Rights
2. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
McCullough v. Maryland
domestic
Industrialization
Bartering
3. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Fund. Order of Conn.
Federalism
Justinian
Atlantic Slave Trade
4. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Henry Ford
Literacy Rate
1776
Marbury v. Madison
5. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
End of Reconstruction
Secularism
Magna Carta
cultural diffusion
6. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
(naval) blockade
Printing Press
1787
Articles of Confederation
7. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Magna Carta
Cottage industry
Bartering
Draco
8. Belief in one god
Monotheism
Winston Churchill
Mayflower Compact (1620)
13th Amendment
9. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
95 Theses
Articles of Confederation
Life Expectancy
Marbury v. Madison
10. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
citizen
amendment
Magna Carta
veto
11. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
George Washington
Emancipation Proclamation
Cuneiform
Schism
12. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Articles of Conf.
Literacy Rate
U.S. Constitution
environment
13. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Checks and Balances
States Rights
Articles of Confederation
Commercial Agriculture
14. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Straits of Hormuz
Columbian Exchange
Infant Mortality
international
15. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Printing Press
cottage industry
Limited Government
Republicanism
16. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Individual Rights
House of Burgesses
Declaration of Independence
Industrialized
17. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
George Washington
Separation of Powers
Traditional economy
Urban
18. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
McCullough v. Maryland
Panama Canal
Civil War 1861-1865
Printing Press
19. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
trade
Bubonic Plague
Bill of Rights
market - oriented agriculture
20. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Industrialized
ratify
Suez Canal
veto
21. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Henry Ford
Bubonic Plague
imports
secondary source
22. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Andean civilization
Straits
nullify
Indulgences
23. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
Columbian Exchange
Secularism
Separation of Powers .
24. Tax on imports and exports.
tariff
Montesquieu
Republic
Basic Needs
25. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Ben Franklin
Bill of Rights
14th Amendment
Cottage industry
26. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
13th Amendment
Constitutional Conv.
House of Burgesses
Constitutional Monarchy
27. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Crusaders
Magna Carta
Industrial Revolution
English Bill of Rights
28. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Natural Barriers
Scientific Revolution
Labor force
Nullification Crisis
29. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Marbury v. Madison
Cuneiform
Ben Franklin
Middle Ages
30. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Individual Rights
Industrial Revolution
Mayflower Compact (1620)
federalism
31. An official change to a law or document of government.
George Washington
Emancipation Proclamation
amendment
domestic
32. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Indulgences
bias
suffrage
Constitutional Conv.
33. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Nullification Crisis
14th Amendment
King George III
Enlightenment
34. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
citizen
Emancipation Proclamation
Inalienable/Unalienable
Cotton Gin
35. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Plessy v. Ferguson
Thomas Jefferson
Draco
Limited Government
36. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Republicanism
Polytheism
Longitude
Draco
37. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Literacy Rate
Silk Road
Fund. Order of Conn.
38. Government where the religious leader run the government
Civil War 1861-1865
Commercial Agriculture
Theocracy
Migration
39. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Separation of Powers .
Checks and Balances
Straits of Hormuz
End of Reconstruction
40. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
(naval) blockade
Absolute Monarchy
Commercial Agriculture
Imperialism
41. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
(naval) blockade
era
Atlantic Slave Trade
Absolute Monarchy
42. Curbed States' Rights
Latitude
Cotton Gin
McCullough v. Maryland
Ben Franklin
43. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Life Expectancy
Treaty of Paris 1783
Articles of Confederation
Enlightenment
44. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
U.S. Constitution
Monotheism
House of Burgesses
Direct Democracy
45. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Self Determination
Cotton Gin
Scientific Revolution
Articles of Conf.
46. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Ben Franklin
Plessy v. Ferguson
standard of living
Humanism
47. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
Commercial Agriculture
The Senate
Standard of living
48. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Inalienable/Unalienable
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Justinian
Representative Democracy
49. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Civil War 1861-1865
era
Monotheism
environment
50. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
level of development
Famine
Irrigation Canals
environment