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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Fertile Crescent
Emancipation Proclamation
veto
2. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Indulgences
Federalism
Limited Government
Nationalism
3. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Magna Carta
Popular Sovereignty
Self Determination
ziggurats
4. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Limited Government
Popular Sovereignty
Scientific Revolution
Civil War
5. Pride in ones country
English Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
Treaty of Paris 1783
Nationalism
6. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Natural Barriers
Enlightenment
George Washington
King George III
7. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Articles of Conf.
8. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Magna Carta
George Washington
95 Theses
Bubonic Plague
9. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Fund. Order of Conn.
95 Theses
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Atlantic Slave Trade
10. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
Communism/Command Economy
Declaration of Independence
Panama Canal
11. President of the United States during the Civil War
ziggurats
Articles of Conf.
Magna Carta
Abraham Lincoln
12. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Separation of Powers .
Federalism
Middle Ages
End of Reconstruction
13. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
ziggurats
95 Theses
Cuneiform
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
14. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Force Bill
Constitutional Monarchy
Thomas Jefferson
Representative democracy
15. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Civil War 1861-1865
Scientific Revolution
Life Expectancy
Silk Road
16. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
1787-1789
Panama Canal
Federalism
Immigration patterns
17. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Standard of living
Magnetic Compass
Abe Lincoln
level of development
18. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Civil War 1861-1865
Thomas Jefferson
Traditional economy
Constitutional Conv.
19. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
13th Amendment
Latitude
Separation of Powers .
Self Determination
20. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
citizen
Renaissance
Oligarchy
International Trade
21. The System in the U.S. and other free market economies. It includes economic choice - competition - profit motive - and limited government regulation of the economy.
Free - enterprise economic system
Thomas Jefferson
Anti - Federalists
1863 Emancipation Pro
22. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
House of Burgesses
colonists
Communism/Command Economy
15th Amendment
23. 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
Migration
Anti - Federalist
Abe Lincoln
End of Reconstruction
24. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
14th Amendment
Federalist Papers
Individual Rights
Labor force
25. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
amendment
Traditional economy
Totalitarianism
1215
26. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
bias
Sub - Saharan Africa .
domestic
Canals
27. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Infant Mortality
Abraham Lincoln
Separation of Powers
Monroe doctrine
28. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Barriers
Life Expectancy
Federalist Papers
cottage industry
29. Making goods out of the home
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Cottage industry
Mesoamerica civilizations
Mayflower Compact (1620)
30. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Nullification Crisis
1215
Bill of Rights
Factory System
31. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Latitude
bias
Subsistence agriculture
Individual Rights
32. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Per Capita Income
Unconstitutional
Federalist Papers
Capitalism/Market Economy
33. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
Labor force
Karl Marx
Sub - Saharan Africa .
34. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Magnetic Compass
environment
Founding of Jamestown
Irrigation Canals
35. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Articles of Confederation
1863 Emancipation Pro
Urban
The Nullification Crisis
36. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Basic Needs
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Subsistence agriculture
McCullough v. Maryland
37. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Printing Press
Longitude
Subsistence agriculture
international
38. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Schism
Emancipation Proclamation
cultural diffusion
14th Amendment
39. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
1791
Representative democracy
Declaration of Indepen.
Commercial Agriculture
40. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Urban
Canals
Magna Carta
Indulgences
41. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
1215
Federalism
Declaration of Indepen.
Cotton Gin
42. First organizing of 13 colonies.
federalism
Limited Government
Articles of Conf.
Free - enterprise economic system
43. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Marbury v. Madison
standard of living
Bartering
Henry Ford
44. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Mayflower Compact
George Washington
trade
Mayflower Compact (1620)
45. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Anti - Federalists
Literacy Rate
Bill of Rights
46. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
The Senate
Representative Democracy
Age of Reason
Nullification Crisis
47. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Cuneiform
Middle Ages
Straits of Hormuz
Bubonic Plague
48. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Industrialized
Constitutional Conv.
limited government
Panama Canal
49. An official change to a law or document of government.
Popular Sovereignty
amendment
Federalism
English Bill of Rights
50. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Famine
Subsistence agriculture
Magna Carta
unalienable