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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 rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Capitalism/Market Economy
Individual Rights
grievance
2. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Limited Government
Articles of Conf.
House of Burgesses
Humanism
3. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Suez Canal
Brown v. Board of Edu.
1791
Federalism
4. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
federalism
Bartering
Indulgences
John Locke
5. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
international
Straits of Hormuz
Mayflower Compact (1620)
ratify
6. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Representative Government
13th Amendment
market - oriented agriculture
7. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Basic Needs
Magna Carta
Popular Sovereignty
Silk Road
8. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Latitude
Limited Government
U.S. Constitution
Separation of Powers .
9. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Treaty of Paris 1783
Articles of Conf.
Cathedrals
Federalism
10. Involving other countries
bias
international
Andean civilization
Communism/Command Economy
11. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
Industrial Revolution
1791
Winston Churchill
12. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Thomas Jefferson
Ben Franklin
Emancipation Proclamation
Limited Government
13. 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.
Indulgences
1787
Printing Press
Emancipation Proclamation
14. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
tariff
14th Amendment
1066
Self Determination
15. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Treaty of Paris 1783
Federalism
Thomas Jefferson
16. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Canals
Henry Ford
Anti - Federalist
Individual Rights
17. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Andean civilization
George Washington
1776
Natural Barriers
18. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
15th Amendment
Consent of the Governed
Federalist Papers
Civil War
19. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Columbian Exchange
(naval) blockade
Republic
1215
20. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Printing Press
1791
Representative Government
bias
21. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
Latitude
Emancipation Proclamation
Republic
22. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
House of Burgesses
(naval) blockade
Theocracy
Industrial Revolution
23. 1st written constitution
Constitutional Monarchy
exports
Magna Carta
Fund. Order of Conn.
24. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Commercial Agriculture
Emancipation Proclamation
Andean civilization
25. Average number of years people live
urban
Direct Democracy
Life Expectancy
Popular Sovereignty
26. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Infant Mortality
Columbian Exchange
Adam Smith
Plessy v. Ferguson
27. 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.
Constitutional Conv.
Checks and Balances
Treaty of Paris 1783
14th Amendment
28. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
15th Amendment
Printing Press
Karl Marx
John Locke
29. 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.
urban
Federalist Papers
Free - enterprise economic system
Inalienable/Unalienable
30. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
U.S. Constitution
States Rights
The Nullification Crisis
Declaration of Independence
31. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Civil War
George Washington
Capitalism/Market Economy
Republicanism
32. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
domestic
Protestant Reformation
Thomas Jefferson
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
33. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Self Determination
Plessy v. Ferguson
Taxation
era
34. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Fertile Crescent
Individual Rights
1787
Articles of Conf.
35. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Civil War 1861-1865
Republic
Indulgences
imports
36. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Canals
George Washington
subsistence agriculture
House of Burgesses
37. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
ziggurats
1066
Founding of Jamestown
38. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
1215
Civil War
Enlightenment
King George III
39. 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.
imports
Communism/Command Economy
exports
primary source
40. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
House of Burgesses
Federalism
1863 Emancipation Pro
Direct Democracy
41. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Treaty of Paris 1783
International Trade
unalienable
Marbury v. Madison
42. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
States Rights
Limited Government
Bill of Rights
Taxation
43. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Land Ordinance of 1785
1776
1215
Industrial Revolution
44. Who opposed the Constitution?
Anti - Federalists
Bubonic Plague
Federalism
exports
45. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
1787-1789
suffrage
Republic
nullify
46. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Thomas Jefferson
Subsistence agriculture
Urban
Parliament
47. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Treaty of Paris 1783
veto
The Nullification Crisis
exports
48. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Columbian Exchange
Secularism
era
14th Amendment
49. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Commercial Agriculture
Protestant Reformation
The Senate
Draco
50. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Bill of Rights
Urban
Atlantic Slave Trade
Nullification Crisis