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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Middle Ages
House of Burgesses
Age of Reason
grievance
2. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
level of development
suburban
Silk Road
Iron Curtain
3. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
cultural diffusion
Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Irrigation Canals
4. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Nullification Crisis
Constitutional Conv.
13th Amendment
ziggurats
5. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Force Bill
End of Reconstruction
ziggurats
Free - enterprise economic system
6. A government that elects its leaders
Civil War
Infant Mortality
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Republic
7. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Atlantic Slave Trade
Fertile Crescent
Separation of Powers
Cuneiform
8. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
1863 Emancipation Pro
The Nullification Crisis
Imperialism
Cottage industry
9. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Unconstitutional
Age of Reason
Cotton Gin
Marbury v. Madison
10. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Taxation
environment
International Trade
Migration
11. 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.
Basic Needs
13th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
environment
12. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Articles of Conf.
limited government
Demographics
Mayflower Compact (1620)
13. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Industrial Revolution
Magna Carta
13th Amendment
federalism
14. Tax on imports and exports.
nullify
Republicanism
tariff
House of Burgesses
15. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
McCullough v. Maryland
Civil War
14th Amendment
Inalienable/Unalienable
16. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
The Nullification Crisis
Subsistence agriculture
Emancipation Proclamation
Thomas Jefferson
17. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Atlantic Slave Trade
level of development
1787-1789
Famine
18. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Straits
Taxation
15th Amendment
Famine
19. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Karl Marx
Bill of Rights
The Nullification Crisis
14th Amendment
20. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Oligarchy
Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers .
1215
21. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
federalism
14th Amendment
Representative democracy
Industrialized
22. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
nullify
Republic
Barriers
23. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
King George III
Anti - Federalists
Fund. Order of Conn.
14th Amendment
24. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Emancipation Proclamation
imports
Renaissance
Humanism
25. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
suburban
Civil War
Schism
McCullough v. Maryland
26. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
limited government
Magna Carta
Enlightenment
1791
27. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Literacy Rate
Monroe doctrine
House of Burgesses
Basic Needs
28. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Industrialized
Taxation
Civil War
Fertile Crescent
29. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Marbury v. Madison
1215
Monroe doctrine
30. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Columbian Exchange
Straits
13th Amendment
Iron Curtain
31. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Canals
Plessy v. Ferguson
Thomas Jefferson
Bartering
32. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
14th Amendment
Subsistence economy
Limited Government
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
33. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Constitutional Monarchy
Industrial Revolution
Suez Canal
Mayflower Compact
34. Making goods out of the home
Parliament
Cottage industry
Mesoamerica civilizations
Fund. Order of Conn.
35. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
tariff
suburban
Parliament
36. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Polytheism
1787
The Nullification Crisis
Republicanism
37. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Limited Government
The Senate
15th Amendment
grievance
38. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
grievance
Republicanism
Federalist Papers
Industrial Revolution
39. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
ratify
Abe Lincoln
International Trade
Bartering
40. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
George Washington
Cottage industry
Mayflower Compact
14th Amendment
41. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
market - oriented agriculture
Ben Franklin
Individual Rights
Separation of Powers
42. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Bubonic Plague
Irrigation Canals
Industrialization
Unconstitutional
43. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
colonists
1791
English Bill of Rights
44. People who settle and live in a colony
15th Amendment
Mayflower Compact
colonists
15th Amendment
45. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Limited Government
Magna Carta
Industrial Revolution
Crusaders
46. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Mayflower Compact
Protestant Reformation
1066
Thomas Jefferson
47. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Treaty of Paris 1783
McCullough v. Maryland
End of Reconstruction
Adam Smith
48. Split in the church
Brown v. Board of Edu.
level of development
Barriers
Schism
49. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Unconstitutional
Humanism
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Republicanism
50. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Barriers
Magna Carta
Individual Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785