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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
Bill of Rights
Polytheism
Enlightenment
2. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Industrialization
Standard of living
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Mayflower Compact
3. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Labor force
Adam Smith
Civil War 1861-1865
4. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Marbury v. Madison
Bill of Rights
imports
5. Split in the church
suffrage
trade
Schism
Traditional economy
6. 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
15th Amendment
Anti - Federalist
Draco
Nullification Crisis
7. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
limited government
Representative democracy
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Karl Marx
8. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
cottage industry
Consent of the Governed
Irrigation Canals
Urban
9. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
Taxation
Industrial Revolution
Bubonic Plague
10. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
veto
Federalist
Protestant Reformation
Suez Canal
11. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
Columbian Exchange
Unconstitutional
Silk Road
15th Amendment
12. President of the United States during the Civil War
1863 Emancipation Pro
House of Burgesses
Printing Press
Abraham Lincoln
13. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
95 Theses
Cottage industry
citizen
Scientific Revolution
14. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
(naval) blockade
Straits
Life Expectancy
15. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
Enlightenment
amendment
Declaration of Independence
16. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
English Bill of Rights
Secularism
imports
Traditional economy
17. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
13th Amendment
Mesoamerica civilizations
level of development
nullify
18. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Individual Rights
Enlightenment
Fertile Crescent
19. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
George Washington
Scientific Revolution
Civil War
House of Burgesses
20. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
Hammurabi
Anti - Federalists
Civil War 1861-1865
21. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
House of Burgesses
Republicanism
English Bill of Rights
Printing Press
22. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Constitutional Conv.
Straits
ratify
veto
23. Limited the power of the King in 1215
House of Burgesses
Plessy v. Ferguson
Magna Carta
Federalist Papers
24. Modern Constitution
Fertile Crescent
Printing Press
U.S. Constitution
George Washington
25. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
(naval) blockade
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Checks and Balances
26. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
era
Immigration patterns
Articles of Confederation
Thomas Jefferson
27. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Mesoamerica civilizations
cultural diffusion
1863 Emancipation Pro
Separation of Powers .
28. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mayflower Compact (1620)
cultural diffusion
Polytheism
29. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Self Determination
Declaration of Indepen.
Articles of Confederation
1863 Emancipation Pro
30. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Popular Sovereignty
Straits
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Force Bill
31. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Standard of living
Protestant Reformation
Nullification Crisis
subsistence agriculture
32. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Magna Carta
suburban
The Senate
Marbury v. Madison
33. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
Famine
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Iron Curtain
34. Average income per person
Crusaders
Adam Smith
Per Capita Income
Labor force
35. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Henry Ford
Articles of Confederation
Individual Rights
36. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Nullification Crisis
Iron Curtain
Sub - Saharan Africa .
domestic
37. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Cuneiform
Representative Government
Articles of Confederation
Winston Churchill
38. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
market - oriented agriculture
Commercial Agriculture
King George III
Age of Reason
39. Pride in ones country
Emancipation Proclamation
Constitutional Monarchy
Articles of Conf.
Nationalism
40. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Popular Sovereignty
Humanism
English Bill of Rights
Schism
41. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Federalism
1787-1789
Parliament
House of Burgesses
42. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Popular Sovereignty
1863 Emancipation Pro
Silk Road
rural
43. Government where the religious leader run the government
House of Burgesses
1791
Constitutional Monarchy
Theocracy
44. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
exports
Plessy v. Ferguson
Enlightenment
Age of Reason
45. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
English Bill of Rights
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Literacy Rate
The Nullification Crisis
46. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Direct Democracy
Federalism
Factory System
Adam Smith
47. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
international
Founding of Jamestown
Andean civilization
Crusaders
48. Average number of years people live
Constitutional Conv.
Thomas Jefferson
Federalism
Life Expectancy
49. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Self Determination
Standard of living
50. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
environment
Declaration of Independence
ziggurats
Abe Lincoln