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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
ratify
Mayflower Compact (1620)
international
Imperialism
2. Split in the church
Magna Carta
15th Amendment
Schism
Articles of Confederation
3. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Migration
ratify
U.S. Constitution
Inalienable/Unalienable
4. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Enlightenment
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Industrial Revolution
colonists
5. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
1215
Marbury v. Madison
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact
6. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Protestant Reformation
cottage industry
Columbian Exchange
Irrigation Canals
7. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
1066
Plessy v. Ferguson
Subsistence economy
Scientific Revolution
8. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Marbury v. Madison
Popular Sovereignty
Magna Carta
international
9. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Magna Carta
House of Burgesses
Bartering
Thomas Jefferson
10. 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
primary source
Infant Mortality
The Nullification Crisis
11. King/queen who has unlimited power
Indulgences
Absolute Monarchy
Bill of Rights
Industrialized
12. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
suffrage
Individual Rights
Sub - Saharan Africa .
federalism
13. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
George Washington
Secularism
Monotheism
14. Exchange of goods and services.
Representative Democracy
cultural diffusion
ratify
trade
15. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Checks and Balances
ratify
Oligarchy
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
16. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
George Washington
Declaration of Indepen.
Bill of Rights
Scientific Revolution
17. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Subsistence agriculture
exports
Magnetic Compass
Founding of Jamestown
18. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Federalism
Representative Democracy
Magna Carta
cultural diffusion
19. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Demographics
Factory System
Per Capita Income
Ben Franklin
20. First organizing of 13 colonies.
14th Amendment
Articles of Conf.
Magna Carta
Industrial Revolution
21. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Fund. Order of Conn.
Totalitarianism
Infant Mortality
22. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Fertile Crescent
1787-1789
Articles of Confederation
Industrial Revolution
23. An official change to a law or document of government.
Straits of Hormuz
Printing Press
amendment
John Locke
24. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Columbian Exchange
Polytheism
limited government
Articles of Confederation
25. Member of a country.
Nullification Crisis
citizen
Articles of Confederation
13th Amendment
26. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Industrialization
Separation of Powers
14th Amendment
Free - enterprise economic system
27. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
1787
Bubonic Plague
international
Representative Democracy
28. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Oligarchy
Unconstitutional
Latitude
Iron Curtain
29. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
Civil War
Latitude
Factory System
30. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Unconstitutional
secondary source
Hammurabi
Self Determination
31. These slow down movement/migration
Magna Carta
Urban
tariff
Barriers
32. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Canals
Constitutional Conv.
Ben Franklin
33. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1787-1789
Commercial Agriculture
Monotheism
Nullification Crisis
34. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Civil War
Nullification Crisis
Republic
tariff
35. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
secondary source
Irrigation Canals
Canals
level of development
36. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Articles of Confederation
Urban
Industrialization
Age of Reason
37. 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.
veto
International Trade
Checks and Balances
15th Amendment
38. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Force Bill
Popular Sovereignty
Anti - Federalists
States Rights
39. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Separation of Powers
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
40. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Federalist Papers
citizen
veto
Limited Government
41. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Justinian
limited government
Barriers
Commercial Agriculture
42. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Straits
Magna Carta
Representative Government
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
43. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Panama Canal
Monroe doctrine
Labor force
Straits of Hormuz
44. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
urban
(naval) blockade
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Humanism
45. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Limited Government
Demographics
Individual Rights
End of Reconstruction
46. Average income per person
ratify
English Bill of Rights
Cuneiform
Per Capita Income
47. Belief in many gods
Magna Carta
Civil War
Secularism
Polytheism
48. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Oligarchy
Polytheism
Cotton Gin
Federalist Papers
49. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
House of Burgesses
International Trade
Constitutional Monarchy
States Rights
50. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
13th Amendment
Age of Reason
cottage industry
Land Ordinance of 1785