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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Standard of living
John Locke
Humanism
Monroe doctrine
2. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Abraham Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Free - enterprise economic system
3. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Representative Government
Fertile Crescent
Bill of Rights
Federalism
4. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
George Washington
Civil War
Federalist
Land Ordinance of 1785
5. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Standard of living
era
Capitalism/Market Economy
Famine
6. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
U.S. Constitution
Atlantic Slave Trade
14th Amendment
7. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
limited government
Traditional economy
Basic Needs
Marbury v. Madison
8. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
George Washington
Age of Reason
The Nullification Crisis
End of Reconstruction
9. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Latitude
1863 Emancipation Pro
Nullification Crisis
House of Burgesses
10. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe doctrine
Industrial Revolution
Individual Rights
bias
11. Mass production of food
cottage industry
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Abe Lincoln
Commercial Agriculture
12. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Communism/Command Economy
Protestant Reformation
Republic
13. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Justinian
bias
Suez Canal
Winston Churchill
14. 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
nullify
Fertile Crescent
Bartering
15. Tax on imports and exports.
Barriers
15th Amendment
tariff
Plessy v. Ferguson
16. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Natural Barriers
Migration
secondary source
Ben Franklin
17. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Bartering
rural
Magnetic Compass
primary source
18. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Mesoamerica civilizations
Taxation
Federalist
Self Determination
19. 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
English Bill of Rights
Cotton Gin
13th Amendment
20. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Republic
Nationalism
standard of living
Industrialized
21. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Mayflower Compact
Magna Carta
Republic
Separation of Powers
22. Belief in one god
States Rights
Monotheism
Federalist Papers
ratify
23. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
States Rights
Magna Carta
George Washington
Cuneiform
24. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Panama Canal
environment
Mayflower Compact
Unconstitutional
25. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Adam Smith
Commercial Agriculture
Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
26. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
George Washington
15th Amendment
Limited Government
Canals
27. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Individual Rights
Capitalism/Market Economy
Printing Press
Civil War
28. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
bias
Capitalism/Market Economy
Federalist Papers
End of Reconstruction
29. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
colonists
13th Amendment
Cotton Gin
Nationalism
30. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
environment
13th Amendment
Declaration of Independence
Industrialization
31. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Federalism
Capitalism/Market Economy
End of Reconstruction
15th Amendment
32. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
The Nullification Crisis
Ben Franklin
Factory System
13th Amendment
33. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Plessy v. Ferguson
Emancipation Proclamation
colonists
Plessy v. Ferguson
34. King of England during the American Revolution.
Direct Democracy
tariff
Literacy Rate
King George III
35. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
environment
ziggurats
Civil War
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
36. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Scientific Revolution
Adam Smith
Ben Franklin
Infant Mortality
37. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Abraham Lincoln
Panama Canal
Industrialization
Irrigation Canals
38. These slow down movement/migration
1066
Fertile Crescent
tariff
Barriers
39. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
King George III
Columbian Exchange
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Self Determination
40. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
subsistence agriculture
1776
Inalienable/Unalienable
secondary source
41. 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.
environment
Cottage industry
era
Articles of Confederation
42. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
Totalitarianism
Emancipation Proclamation
Capitalism/Market Economy
43. 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.
Self Determination
U.S. Constitution
Montesquieu
Checks and Balances
44. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Thomas Jefferson
1863 Emancipation Pro
Immigration patterns
Oligarchy
45. Modern Constitution
Scientific Revolution
Cathedrals
Basic Needs
U.S. Constitution
46. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
primary source
Bill of Rights
George Washington
Cotton Gin
47. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Subsistence economy
Thomas Jefferson
Commercial Agriculture
Declaration of Indepen.
48. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Infant Mortality
15th Amendment
Longitude
Republic
49. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
bias
Land Ordinance of 1785
ratify
Mesoamerica civilizations
50. Curbed States' Rights
amendment
Civil War
Federalism
McCullough v. Maryland