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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1st written constitution
King George III
Fund. Order of Conn.
Irrigation Canals
Unconstitutional
2. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
International Trade
Longitude
Plessy v. Ferguson
Self Determination
3. Officially ended the American Revolution
Demographics
Treaty of Paris 1783
rural
Self Determination
4. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
Latitude
primary source
Mayflower Compact (1620)
English Bill of Rights
5. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Irrigation Canals
Secularism
Straits of Hormuz
Marbury v. Madison
6. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Traditional economy
Founding of Jamestown
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Andean civilization
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.
15th Amendment
Free - enterprise economic system
amendment
Basic Needs
8. Limited the power of the King in 1215
market - oriented agriculture
Magna Carta
primary source
House of Burgesses
9. Having to do with one's own homeland
Magna Carta
Printing Press
domestic
Limited Government
10. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Civil War 1861-1865
Marbury v. Madison
Civil War
1787-1789
11. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
environment
Bill of Rights
The Senate
12. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Declaration of Independence
rural
Popular Sovereignty
unalienable
13. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
limited government
primary source
Parliament
George Washington
14. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
The Senate
international
Checks and Balances
veto
15. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
George Washington
Federalism
16. Involving other countries
Self Determination
veto
Basic Needs
international
17. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
Atlantic Slave Trade
Representative democracy
Renaissance
Columbian Exchange
18. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
George Washington
environment
Marbury v. Madison
19. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Draco
domestic
Iron Curtain
Karl Marx
20. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Declaration of Indepen.
Labor force
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Anti - Federalists
21. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Unconstitutional
House of Burgesses
1776
22. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
John Locke
Articles of Confederation
95 Theses
Printing Press
23. Economic thinker that developed communism
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
environment
Marbury v. Madison
Karl Marx
24. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Communism/Command Economy
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Industrial Revolution
Fertile Crescent
25. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
1776
suburban
Thomas Jefferson
Atlantic Slave Trade
26. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Limited Government
Articles of Confederation
Schism
Draco
27. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
tariff
Popular Sovereignty
Adam Smith
Per Capita Income
28. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
(naval) blockade
Republic
Civil War 1861-1865
End of Reconstruction
29. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
Checks and Balances
1791
era
Barriers
30. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Abraham Lincoln
Magna Carta
Factory System
The Nullification Crisis
31. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Industrial Revolution
Civil War
limited government
English Bill of Rights
32. People who settle and live in a colony
cottage industry
colonists
Protestant Reformation
Iron Curtain
33. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
ziggurats
Factory System
1776
34. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
John Locke
Draco
Communism/Command Economy
Natural Barriers
35. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
era
Per Capita Income
Emancipation Proclamation
36. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Protestant Reformation
cultural diffusion
Representative Democracy
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
37. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
Winston Churchill
1066
Bill of Rights
38. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Natural Barriers
nullify
Demographics
Federalism
39. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
McCullough v. Maryland
Demographics
Imperialism
Limited Government
40. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
13th Amendment
Bill of Rights
bias
Industrial Revolution
41. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Imperialism
George Washington
Parliament
Subsistence economy
42. Tax on imports and exports.
level of development
Infant Mortality
tariff
Articles of Confederation
43. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
95 Theses
Justinian
Hammurabi
Iron Curtain
44. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Winston Churchill
Subsistence agriculture
Articles of Confederation
federalism
45. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Hammurabi
Republicanism
nullify
Straits of Hormuz
46. 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.
suburban
Articles of Conf.
Cathedrals
1787
47. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
nullify
Andean civilization
English Bill of Rights
Popular Sovereignty
48. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Cathedrals
Standard of living
era
Monroe doctrine
49. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
1787-1789
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis
Founding of Jamestown
50. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
1215
citizen
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalism