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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Federalist
Articles of Confederation
1787-1789
Factory System
2. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Industrialization
federalism
Printing Press
Parliament
3. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Plessy v. Ferguson
Printing Press
Emancipation Proclamation
King George III
4. Having to do with one's own homeland
imports
domestic
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Crusaders
5. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
subsistence agriculture
Limited Government
Bubonic Plague
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
6. 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.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Life Expectancy
Checks and Balances
English Bill of Rights
7. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Industrial Revolution
Indulgences
King George III
Irrigation Canals
8. Involving other countries
primary source
Straits
international
Separation of Powers .
9. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Natural Barriers
Cathedrals
Thomas Jefferson
Bubonic Plague
10. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
Commercial Agriculture
(naval) blockade
English Bill of Rights
11. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
13th Amendment
Communism/Command Economy
Famine
12. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Popular Sovereignty
Basic Needs
Federalist Papers
secondary source
13. Member of a country.
Thomas Jefferson
Polytheism
citizen
Articles of Conf.
14. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
urban
Subsistence agriculture
Industrialized
Constitutional Monarchy
15. King of England during the American Revolution.
King George III
market - oriented agriculture
1791
suburban
16. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
English Bill of Rights
Industrial Revolution
End of Reconstruction
17. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
End of Reconstruction
Taxation
Parliament
1776
18. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Checks and Balances
15th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Hammurabi
19. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Capitalism/Market Economy
Famine
Industrial Revolution
Marbury v. Madison
20. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Montesquieu
End of Reconstruction
federalism
Magna Carta
21. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Articles of Confederation
English Bill of Rights
Absolute Monarchy
Irrigation Canals
22. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republicanism
Natural Barriers
Republic
veto
23. President of the United States during the Civil War
Unconstitutional
1863 Emancipation Pro
Abraham Lincoln
Force Bill
24. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Civil War
domestic
Articles of Conf.
Land Ordinance of 1785
25. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Schism
Henry Ford
Enlightenment
Atlantic Slave Trade
26. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Bartering
imports
Fertile Crescent
27. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Per Capita Income
Republicanism
Free - enterprise economic system
Constitutional Conv.
28. Complaints
suburban
grievance
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Cuneiform
29. All things that surround us.
environment
14th Amendment
Cuneiform
Theocracy
30. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Justinian
Silk Road
Winston Churchill
Subsistence economy
31. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
95 Theses
imports
English Bill of Rights
amendment
32. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Parliament
federalism
Marbury v. Madison
Taxation
33. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
Columbian Exchange
grievance
Famine
Capitalism/Market Economy
34. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Emancipation Proclamation
Limited Government
veto
English Bill of Rights
35. 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.
1787
English Bill of Rights
Columbian Exchange
Indulgences
36. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Per Capita Income
Plessy v. Ferguson
Articles of Conf.
14th Amendment
37. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Limited Government
1215
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Popular Sovereignty
38. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Consent of the Governed
Checks and Balances
Theocracy
39. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Polytheism
Fertile Crescent
secondary source
Force Bill
40. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
imports
subsistence agriculture
Renaissance
41. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
13th Amendment
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Mayflower Compact
14th Amendment
42. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Scientific Revolution
Natural Barriers
Magnetic Compass
primary source
43. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Factory System
Barriers
nullify
Labor force
44. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Industrialization
Barriers
Thomas Jefferson
45. 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
Printing Press
Straits of Hormuz
Protestant Reformation
46. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Straits of Hormuz
Literacy Rate
Infant Mortality
Commercial Agriculture
47. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Infant Mortality
Communism/Command Economy
Demographics
Per Capita Income
48. Government ruled by a few powerful people
House of Burgesses
1066
(naval) blockade
Oligarchy
49. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Commercial Agriculture
Per Capita Income
Popular Sovereignty
Montesquieu
50. Mass production of food
Karl Marx
Commercial Agriculture
Republic
Magna Carta