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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Federalism
Migration
Bartering
Parliament
2. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Justinian
Totalitarianism
Land Ordinance of 1785
Oligarchy
3. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Oligarchy
House of Burgesses
bias
Consent of the Governed
4. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Draco
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Representative Democracy
5. 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.
Constitutional Monarchy
veto
ziggurats
Articles of Confederation
6. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Mayflower Compact
Fund. Order of Conn.
Magna Carta
Life Expectancy
7. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Limited Government
Declaration of Independence
Individual Rights
limited government
8. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Industrialized
Republic
Straits of Hormuz
Mayflower Compact
9. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Standard of living
15th Amendment
Literacy Rate
Cotton Gin
10. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Silk Road
Monotheism
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill
11. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
Thomas Jefferson
amendment
Land Ordinance of 1785
12. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Emancipation Proclamation
Polytheism
Mayflower Compact (1620)
market - oriented agriculture
13. All things that surround us.
Magna Carta
Commercial Agriculture
amendment
environment
14. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
John Locke
Industrial Revolution
Thomas Jefferson
14th Amendment
15. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Oligarchy
Industrialization
House of Burgesses
Marbury v. Madison
16. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Nationalism
Infant Mortality
Monroe doctrine
George Washington
17. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Andean civilization
Individual Rights
1215
Magnetic Compass
18. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Republic
veto
Inalienable/Unalienable
Traditional economy
19. Modern Constitution
Separation of Powers .
U.S. Constitution
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln
20. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
nullify
Nationalism
ratify
subsistence agriculture
21. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Limited Government
Cotton Gin
Popular Sovereignty
14th Amendment
22. Mass production of food
15th Amendment
95 Theses
grievance
Commercial Agriculture
23. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Canals
Bartering
domestic
Migration
24. King/queen who has unlimited power
Federalist Papers
Absolute Monarchy
urban
Industrial Revolution
25. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Monotheism
Declaration of Indepen.
Articles of Conf.
Land Ordinance of 1785
26. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Land Ordinance of 1785
Literacy Rate
Totalitarianism
Crusaders
27. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Representative Government
Consent of the Governed
Checks and Balances
Adam Smith
28. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Abe Lincoln
Subsistence agriculture
Abraham Lincoln
Indulgences
29. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Free - enterprise economic system
exports
Separation of Powers .
Articles of Confederation
30. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Cottage industry
Republicanism
Traditional economy
Famine
31. President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
14th Amendment
Industrial Revolution
End of Reconstruction
32. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Republic
Industrial Revolution
Capitalism/Market Economy
Federalist Papers
33. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Karl Marx
level of development
Crusaders
Thomas Jefferson
34. 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
Nationalism
Magnetic Compass
Enlightenment
Middle Ages
35. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Free - enterprise economic system
Federalism
Federalist
Declaration of Indepen.
36. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Basic Needs
Representative democracy
Henry Ford
The Nullification Crisis
37. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Mayflower Compact (1620)
House of Burgesses
Hammurabi
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
38. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Silk Road
George Washington
Popular Sovereignty
Immigration patterns
39. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Columbian Exchange
Abe Lincoln
Civil War 1861-1865
Factory System
40. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
international
Renaissance
95 Theses
cottage industry
41. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Imperialism
Federalism
George Washington
42. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Imperialism
George Washington
domestic
Cathedrals
43. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Articles of Confederation
Abe Lincoln
secondary source
44. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Emancipation Proclamation
Representative Government
The Senate
Labor force
45. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Republicanism
standard of living
international
Bill of Rights
46. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Fund. Order of Conn.
Crusaders
era
Capitalism/Market Economy
47. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Bill of Rights
Industrialization
English Bill of Rights
14th Amendment
48. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
The Senate
Brown v. Board of Edu.
1787-1789
Iron Curtain
49. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Ben Franklin
limited government
rural
Free - enterprise economic system
50. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Panama Canal
Inalienable/Unalienable
grievance
Articles of Confederation