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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
trade
Montesquieu
Communism/Command Economy
Separation of Powers
2. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Force Bill
market - oriented agriculture
1863 Emancipation Pro
Bill of Rights
3. An official change to a law or document of government.
urban
amendment
Checks and Balances
Renaissance
4. 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.
House of Burgesses
Marbury v. Madison
Free - enterprise economic system
Limited Government
5. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abe Lincoln
Civil War
Protestant Reformation
Magnetic Compass
6. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Cuneiform
Consent of the Governed
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
7. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Federalist Papers
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Magna Carta
Inalienable/Unalienable
8. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Republicanism
States Rights
Printing Press
Straits
9. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Civil War 1861-1865
Republic
limited government
Mayflower Compact (1620)
10. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
13th Amendment
Migration
Schism
Subsistence economy
11. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
secondary source
Separation of Powers .
subsistence agriculture
12. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
limited government
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Longitude
Federalist Papers
13. Who opposed the Constitution?
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Federalism
Anti - Federalists
Thomas Jefferson
14. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
environment
Marbury v. Madison
Longitude
Articles of Confederation
15. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
suffrage
Oligarchy
Imperialism
Henry Ford
16. 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
13th Amendment
Cathedrals
Articles of Confederation
Anti - Federalist
17. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
End of Reconstruction
Mesoamerica civilizations
domestic
Straits
18. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Industrialization
Literacy Rate
secondary source
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
19. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Bill of Rights
14th Amendment
The Senate
Founding of Jamestown
20. Mountains - deserts and oceans
1787
Republicanism
Fund. Order of Conn.
Natural Barriers
21. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Industrialized
imports
limited government
George Washington
22. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
Land Ordinance of 1785
Marbury v. Madison
era
23. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
1215
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Famine
24. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
amendment
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Demographics
Checks and Balances
25. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
suffrage
Migration
15th Amendment
26. All things that surround us.
tariff
Monroe doctrine
environment
Draco
27. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Federalist Papers
grievance
Ben Franklin
28. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Imperialism
Humanism
Renaissance
95 Theses
29. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Abraham Lincoln
Mayflower Compact
International Trade
1863 Emancipation Pro
30. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Basic Needs
Magnetic Compass
Monroe doctrine
Bill of Rights
31. Movement of people from on country or location to another
John Locke
Fertile Crescent
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Migration
32. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Enlightenment
Popular Sovereignty
Printing Press
Republicanism
33. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Irrigation Canals
Cottage industry
Magnetic Compass
34. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Civil War 1861-1865
15th Amendment
primary source
Canals
35. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Federalist Papers
suffrage
36. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
Magna Carta
Force Bill
Industrial Revolution
37. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Infant Mortality
suffrage
Federalism
Oligarchy
38. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Nationalism
Cotton Gin
Representative democracy
1215
39. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Federalist
Magna Carta
Magna Carta
Direct Democracy
40. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Nationalism
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Bill of Rights
Cathedrals
41. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
cultural diffusion
veto
Magnetic Compass
Renaissance
42. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Subsistence economy
Iron Curtain
Atlantic Slave Trade
Popular Sovereignty
43. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Renaissance
Bill of Rights
Anti - Federalists
1787-1789
44. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Articles of Confederation
Thomas Jefferson
15th Amendment
95 Theses
45. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
standard of living
Mayflower Compact
rural
Articles of Confederation
46. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Absolute Monarchy
Barriers
Representative Democracy
Montesquieu
47. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Protestant Reformation
Traditional economy
Consent of the Governed
Life Expectancy
48. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Cuneiform
Cottage industry
Mayflower Compact (1620)
limited government
49. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Representative Democracy
Industrialization
Direct Democracy
Henry Ford
50. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
cultural diffusion
Declaration of Indepen.
Force Bill
Magnetic Compass