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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
Age of Reason
Literacy Rate
Draco
2. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Age of Reason
ratify
Civil War
Commercial Agriculture
3. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Natural Barriers
Enlightenment
1787-1789
Articles of Confederation
4. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Andean civilization
Fertile Crescent
Protestant Reformation
Subsistence agriculture
5. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
level of development
secondary source
Bill of Rights
Cuneiform
6. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
King George III
subsistence agriculture
Commercial Agriculture
Secularism
7. An official change to a law or document of government.
Plessy v. Ferguson
amendment
Sub - Saharan Africa .
ziggurats
8. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
imports
14th Amendment
1863 Emancipation Pro
Oligarchy
9. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
George Washington
Fertile Crescent
Marbury v. Madison
urban
10. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Articles of Confederation
Suez Canal
Constitutional Conv.
Bubonic Plague
11. Who opposed the Constitution?
Absolute Monarchy
Draco
Articles of Confederation
Anti - Federalists
12. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
nullify
Cuneiform
Checks and Balances
13. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Renaissance
Oligarchy
Scientific Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
14. Average income per person
standard of living
Ben Franklin
14th Amendment
Per Capita Income
15. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Factory System
Limited Government
ratify
Anti - Federalists
16. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Monotheism
Individual Rights
Renaissance
McCullough v. Maryland
17. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
limited government
1066
1776
Founding of Jamestown
18. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Basic Needs
tariff
Founding of Jamestown
19. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
level of development
14th Amendment
1776
Irrigation Canals
20. Belief in one god
Monotheism
Per Capita Income
Communism/Command Economy
King George III
21. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
Land Ordinance of 1785
Parliament
colonists
22. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Inalienable/Unalienable
limited government
Draco
Industrial Revolution
23. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Renaissance
Bubonic Plague
veto
Famine
24. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Monotheism
Limited Government
Emancipation Proclamation
Winston Churchill
25. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
House of Burgesses
Adam Smith
citizen
colonists
26. Complaints
Middle Ages
grievance
English Bill of Rights
International Trade
27. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Nullification Crisis
14th Amendment
secondary source
Justinian
28. 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
Adam Smith
Justinian
Republic
29. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Civil War
Federalist Papers
Cuneiform
Emancipation Proclamation
30. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
1863 Emancipation Pro
Panama Canal
Republicanism
Andean civilization
31. 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.
Checks and Balances
Traditional economy
Age of Reason
Popular Sovereignty
32. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Communism/Command Economy
Secularism
Parliament
Age of Exploration & Colonization
33. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
States Rights
Straits
Federalist
14th Amendment
34. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Infant Mortality
Representative Democracy
Enlightenment
Constitutional Monarchy
35. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
domestic
level of development
suffrage
Individual Rights
36. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
George Washington
Limited Government
domestic
Schism
37. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Oligarchy
ratify
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
rural
38. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
federalism
Separation of Powers
Republicanism
Thomas Jefferson
39. 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
Constitutional Monarchy
Totalitarianism
Demographics
40. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Civil War 1861-1865
English Bill of Rights
Self Determination
End of Reconstruction
41. These slow down movement/migration
States Rights
ziggurats
Barriers
Nationalism
42. Member of a country.
Silk Road
Representative Democracy
Taxation
citizen
43. Period in Europe that began after the fall of the Roman Empire Characterized by feudalism - Roman Catholic Church was the unifier of the age with more power than Kings/Lords
Schism
George Washington
Middle Ages
Constitutional Conv.
44. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
George Washington
Federalism
Checks and Balances
Totalitarianism
45. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Draco
Commercial Agriculture
Marbury v. Madison
English Bill of Rights
46. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Republicanism
Cathedrals
era
Commercial Agriculture
47. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Immigration patterns
market - oriented agriculture
Magna Carta
Popular Sovereignty
48. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Infant Mortality
Monroe doctrine
Unconstitutional
14th Amendment
49. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Oligarchy
Magna Carta
Bill of Rights
1787-1789
50. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Magna Carta
The Senate
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Popular Sovereignty