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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This is also referred to as a city
Industrialization
Age of Reason
Urban
13th Amendment
2. Having to do with one's own homeland
1787
Andean civilization
domestic
George Washington
3. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Thomas Jefferson
Enlightenment
Adam Smith
Famine
4. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Renaissance
Civil War
Founding of Jamestown
Nationalism
5. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Limited Government
1787
federalism
Natural Barriers
6. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
George Washington
Federalist Papers
Andean civilization
English Bill of Rights
7. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Subsistence agriculture
Andean civilization
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
8. Opposed to the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government and not enough to the states. They also wanted individual rights protected
Separation of Powers
States Rights
Anti - Federalist
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
9. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Federalism
ratify
Plessy v. Ferguson
13th Amendment
10. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Life Expectancy
Secularism
Bill of Rights
Immigration patterns
11. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Andean civilization
The Senate
12. Modern Constitution
English Bill of Rights
Literacy Rate
Canals
U.S. Constitution
13. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Nullification Crisis
Polytheism
14th Amendment
Iron Curtain
14. Government ruled by a few powerful people
1776
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
cottage industry
Oligarchy
15. Member of a country.
citizen
Anti - Federalist
Adam Smith
Federalism
16. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Declaration of Independence
primary source
Declaration of Indepen.
ziggurats
17. 1st written constitution
Monotheism
Fund. Order of Conn.
Federalist Papers
Absolute Monarchy
18. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Canals
Industrialized
U.S. Constitution
exports
19. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
The Nullification Crisis
Federalism
Self Determination
Inalienable/Unalienable
20. These slow down movement/migration
Marbury v. Madison
Barriers
Magna Carta
Imperialism
21. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
15th Amendment
Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
22. 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.
Enlightenment
Free - enterprise economic system
Anti - Federalists
cultural diffusion
23. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Subsistence agriculture
limited government
Industrial Revolution
Checks and Balances
24. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Limited Government
domestic
Monroe doctrine
Self Determination
25. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Subsistence agriculture
Self Determination
Thomas Jefferson
Middle Ages
26. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
1776
Representative Democracy
Demographics
Labor force
27. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Infant Mortality
grievance
Republic
Monotheism
28. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
limited government
Mayflower Compact
environment
Straits
29. Exchange of goods and services.
trade
Scientific Revolution
Parliament
Representative Government
30. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Bill of Rights
Founding of Jamestown
Demographics
Adam Smith
31. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
English Bill of Rights
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Limited Government
Adam Smith
32. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
1215
Republic
ziggurats
Age of Exploration & Colonization
33. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Straits of Hormuz
Nullification Crisis
End of Reconstruction
Printing Press
34. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Republic
limited government
House of Burgesses
Life Expectancy
35. 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
Immigration patterns
Cuneiform
grievance
36. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Infant Mortality
Plessy v. Ferguson
English Bill of Rights
1776
37. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Atlantic Slave Trade
95 Theses
Magna Carta
Irrigation Canals
38. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
era
market - oriented agriculture
House of Burgesses
Karl Marx
39. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Self Determination
Individual Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
Protestant Reformation
40. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Checks and Balances
Sub - Saharan Africa .
McCullough v. Maryland
suffrage
41. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
Articles of Confederation
Communism/Command Economy
Land Ordinance of 1785
Migration
42. An official change to a law or document of government.
George Washington
1066
grievance
amendment
43. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
federalism
standard of living
Hammurabi
colonists
44. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Magna Carta
Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
Representative Government
45. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
English Bill of Rights
1787-1789
Land Ordinance of 1785
Representative Government
46. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
limited government
Fertile Crescent
Totalitarianism
47. To officially approve.
Emancipation Proclamation
ratify
Declaration of Indepen.
McCullough v. Maryland
48. Complaints
grievance
The Nullification Crisis
Hammurabi
federalism
49. Officially ended the American Revolution
Justinian
Anti - Federalist
Mayflower Compact
Treaty of Paris 1783
50. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Imperialism
Direct Democracy
Straits
Per Capita Income