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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
Fund. Order of Conn.
Limited Government
15th Amendment
2. Average number of years people live
Free - enterprise economic system
Life Expectancy
Adam Smith
Traditional economy
3. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Oligarchy
Infant Mortality
Republic
grievance
4. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
1863 Emancipation Pro
George Washington
King George III
5. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
1787
King George III
Emancipation Proclamation
Federalism
6. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
market - oriented agriculture
Magnetic Compass
Panama Canal
Separation of Powers .
7. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Panama Canal
Mesoamerica civilizations
Bill of Rights
15th Amendment
8. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
1066
Migration
Hammurabi
9. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Inalienable/Unalienable
John Locke
Migration
Magnetic Compass
10. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Enlightenment
Thomas Jefferson
subsistence agriculture
imports
11. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
market - oriented agriculture
Declaration of Indepen.
Humanism
secondary source
12. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Totalitarianism
Unconstitutional
Iron Curtain
exports
13. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
standard of living
unalienable
George Washington
Suez Canal
14. Who opposed the Constitution?
market - oriented agriculture
Anti - Federalists
federalism
Subsistence agriculture
15. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Articles of Conf.
Articles of Confederation
standard of living
14th Amendment
16. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
imports
nullify
Crusaders
17. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
Bill of Rights
Totalitarianism
Plessy v. Ferguson
18. Split in the church
End of Reconstruction
Middle Ages
Humanism
Schism
19. To officially approve.
ratify
Scientific Revolution
Limited Government
Federalist Papers
20. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Longitude
Justinian
Representative democracy
Declaration of Indepen.
21. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
Middle Ages
Subsistence economy
Bartering
primary source
22. All things that surround us.
Magna Carta
Industrialization
Urban
environment
23. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Henry Ford
1791
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Federalist Papers
24. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
Traditional economy
Justinian
George Washington
25. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1787-1789
1863 Emancipation Pro
Treaty of Paris 1783
grievance
26. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
standard of living
Canals
Industrialized
1776
27. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Republic
Articles of Confederation
Straits of Hormuz
English Bill of Rights
28. Exchange of goods and services.
nullify
Industrial Revolution
Representative democracy
trade
29. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Self Determination
Founding of Jamestown
Atlantic Slave Trade
Inalienable/Unalienable
30. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Declaration of Indepen.
Limited Government
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Age of Reason
31. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
exports
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
Latitude
32. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Bartering
cottage industry
amendment
era
33. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Constitutional Conv.
cultural diffusion
Articles of Confederation
Winston Churchill
34. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Bill of Rights
Canals
rural
Limited Government
35. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
George Washington
15th Amendment
domestic
suburban
36. Having industries for the machine production of goods
1776
Industrialized
Separation of Powers
Separation of Powers .
37. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
The Nullification Crisis
secondary source
Articles of Conf.
level of development
38. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Atlantic Slave Trade
Middle Ages
Declaration of Indepen.
Cathedrals
39. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
Standard of living
Republic
level of development
40. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Panama Canal
Individual Rights
1215
colonists
41. People who settle and live in a colony
1787
colonists
Emancipation Proclamation
Articles of Confederation
42. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Land Ordinance of 1785
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
Consent of the Governed
43. An official change to a law or document of government.
Cuneiform
Limited Government
amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
44. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Ben Franklin
George Washington
Middle Ages
Articles of Confederation
45. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Declaration of Indepen.
Federalist Papers
Subsistence economy
Unconstitutional
46. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Urban
Literacy Rate
House of Burgesses
Magna Carta
47. Separate is not equal in public Schools
era
imports
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Brown v. Board of Edu.
48. 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.
Silk Road
Bill of Rights
Checks and Balances
Bill of Rights
49. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
The Nullification Crisis
Schism
Cotton Gin
Articles of Confederation
50. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Schism
Life Expectancy
Capitalism/Market Economy
Checks and Balances