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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Belief in one god
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Irrigation Canals
Monotheism
cottage industry
2. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Separation of Powers .
International Trade
Popular Sovereignty
Taxation
3. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Magna Carta
Factory System
federalism
Migration
4. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Cottage industry
Traditional economy
Monroe doctrine
House of Burgesses
5. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Subsistence economy
Immigration patterns
cottage industry
Direct Democracy
6. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Cuneiform
trade
International Trade
Thomas Jefferson
7. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
unalienable
Basic Needs
Articles of Confederation
Canals
8. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Articles of Confederation
Mayflower Compact
Imperialism
Theocracy
9. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Separation of Powers
English Bill of Rights
rural
10. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
primary source
Direct Democracy
Winston Churchill
Force Bill
11. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Bubonic Plague
Republic
grievance
Imperialism
12. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
1787-1789
George Washington
Declaration of Indepen.
Representative Democracy
13. The System in the U.S. and other free market economies. It includes economic choice - competition - profit motive - and limited government regulation of the economy.
Free - enterprise economic system
U.S. Constitution
Popular Sovereignty
Irrigation Canals
14. 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.
Republic
1787
Cathedrals
Articles of Confederation
15. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
tariff
Capitalism/Market Economy
level of development
Plessy v. Ferguson
16. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
grievance
15th Amendment
14th Amendment
colonists
17. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Unconstitutional
Cotton Gin
Popular Sovereignty
Marbury v. Madison
18. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Iron Curtain
Secularism
Ben Franklin
John Locke
19. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Republic
15th Amendment
Representative Government
Cottage industry
20. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Scientific Revolution
Protestant Reformation
Infant Mortality
Indulgences
21. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Mayflower Compact
Literacy Rate
Bartering
U.S. Constitution
22. An official change to a law or document of government.
Mayflower Compact
amendment
Cuneiform
Imperialism
23. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Life Expectancy
Literacy Rate
Iron Curtain
End of Reconstruction
24. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Montesquieu
George Washington
Canals
13th Amendment
25. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Oligarchy
Longitude
Enlightenment
Totalitarianism
26. 1st written constitution
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Literacy Rate
Fund. Order of Conn.
27. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
George Washington
14th Amendment
Andean civilization
Constitutional Conv.
28. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Longitude
Declaration of Independence
Constitutional Monarchy
Migration
29. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Suez Canal
colonists
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Mayflower Compact
30. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
Nationalism
Montesquieu
exports
31. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
ratify
Ben Franklin
secondary source
Natural Barriers
32. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Nationalism
Consent of the Governed
Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
33. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
Anti - Federalists
Republicanism
95 Theses
34. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
15th Amendment
Draco
Enlightenment
Age of Reason
35. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Representative Democracy
Longitude
veto
Enlightenment
36. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Hammurabi
1776
Longitude
Magna Carta
37. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Free - enterprise economic system
Draco
Straits of Hormuz
George Washington
38. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
market - oriented agriculture
Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact
39. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Representative democracy
Republic
Founding of Jamestown
Cotton Gin
40. 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
suburban
Parliament
Magna Carta
41. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
bias
Subsistence economy
House of Burgesses
Federalist
42. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Famine
Humanism
Declaration of Independence
Traditional economy
43. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Life Expectancy
trade
English Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
44. Officially ended the American Revolution
subsistence agriculture
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Representative democracy
Treaty of Paris 1783
45. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
urban
suffrage
Straits
Articles of Confederation
46. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Mesoamerica civilizations
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Industrialized
13th Amendment
47. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
international
suburban
Thomas Jefferson
subsistence agriculture
48. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Factory System
Popular Sovereignty
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
49. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Imperialism
Monotheism
Republic
primary source
50. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Federalist Papers
House of Burgesses
Separation of Powers
Age of Reason