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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
Life Expectancy
Cotton Gin
Federalism
2. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Protestant Reformation
Canals
imports
Bill of Rights
3. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
The Senate
Popular Sovereignty
Barriers
ziggurats
4. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Suez Canal
Literacy Rate
George Washington
Marbury v. Madison
5. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
suburban
Popular Sovereignty
Urban
Representative Government
6. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Theocracy
George Washington
14th Amendment
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
7. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
McCullough v. Maryland
Commercial Agriculture
15th Amendment
Canals
8. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Thomas Jefferson
limited government
Crusaders
Articles of Conf.
9. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Totalitarianism
Bartering
Irrigation Canals
colonists
10. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
cultural diffusion
Basic Needs
Abe Lincoln
Federalism
11. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Popular Sovereignty
Theocracy
ziggurats
12. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Printing Press
English Bill of Rights
(naval) blockade
Unconstitutional
13. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Industrialized
13th Amendment
English Bill of Rights
Taxation
14. Exchange of goods and services.
Representative Government
Protestant Reformation
trade
Plessy v. Ferguson
15. Who opposed the Constitution?
Articles of Confederation
exports
Scientific Revolution
Anti - Federalists
16. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Protestant Reformation
1215
Consent of the Governed
States Rights
17. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
urban
Middle Ages
Protestant Reformation
Parliament
18. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
rural
Renaissance
bias
Representative Democracy
19. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Mesoamerica civilizations
Labor force
Representative democracy
ziggurats
20. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
1787-1789
subsistence agriculture
Federalism
Representative democracy
21. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Free - enterprise economic system
Bartering
Mesoamerica civilizations
Ben Franklin
22. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Industrial Revolution
Federalist Papers
Barriers
The Senate
23. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Protestant Reformation
Republic
domestic
Separation of Powers
24. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
Commercial Agriculture
Plessy v. Ferguson
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
25. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Absolute Monarchy
Justinian
Thomas Jefferson
1787
26. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Direct Democracy
King George III
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Factory System
27. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Bubonic Plague
Limited Government
suffrage
secondary source
28. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
English Bill of Rights
1791
Limited Government
1787
29. 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.
Magna Carta
1787
English Bill of Rights
Atlantic Slave Trade
30. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Montesquieu
Protestant Reformation
Basic Needs
Civil War 1861-1865
31. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
15th Amendment
Subsistence agriculture
1791
Parliament
32. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Commercial Agriculture
subsistence agriculture
15th Amendment
suffrage
33. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
House of Burgesses
1863 Emancipation Pro
Federalist Papers
Adam Smith
34. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Checks and Balances
Articles of Confederation
Emancipation Proclamation
English Bill of Rights
35. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
Declaration of Indepen.
End of Reconstruction
Factory System
36. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Basic Needs
Marbury v. Madison
Montesquieu
Henry Ford
37. Established Judicial Review.
Middle Ages
The Nullification Crisis
Marbury v. Madison
Irrigation Canals
38. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Enlightenment
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Suez Canal
House of Burgesses
39. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
1776
Absolute Monarchy
Articles of Confederation
Emancipation Proclamation
40. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Enlightenment
Federalist
The Nullification Crisis
Individual Rights
41. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
House of Burgesses
unalienable
Federalism
Labor force
42. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
Secularism
Iron Curtain
Marbury v. Madison
43. President of the United States during the Civil War
Bubonic Plague
Abraham Lincoln
Federalism
Totalitarianism
44. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Standard of living
Marbury v. Madison
45. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Individual Rights
Bubonic Plague
Magnetic Compass
Cuneiform
46. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Republic
Inalienable/Unalienable
Founding of Jamestown
amendment
47. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
End of Reconstruction
environment
Separation of Powers
Traditional economy
48. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
Protestant Reformation
cultural diffusion
exports
49. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Secularism
Bill of Rights
Republicanism
George Washington
50. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Draco
Monroe doctrine
international
Bartering