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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
13th Amendment
Indulgences
Crusaders
trade
2. A government that elects its leaders
Adam Smith
Civil War
Industrial Revolution
Republic
3. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Industrialization
Civil War
cottage industry
Thomas Jefferson
4. 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
14th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
Separation of Powers
Suez Canal
5. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
States Rights
Mesoamerica civilizations
Bill of Rights
nullify
6. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Labor force
Fertile Crescent
Magnetic Compass
Mayflower Compact (1620)
7. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
rural
federalism
(naval) blockade
Abraham Lincoln
8. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Nationalism
Sub - Saharan Africa .
U.S. Constitution
Anti - Federalist
9. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
King George III
Infant Mortality
1863 Emancipation Pro
English Bill of Rights
10. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
ziggurats
Cottage industry
Limited Government
15th Amendment
11. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
rural
Bubonic Plague
Parliament
(naval) blockade
12. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
Unconstitutional
Schism
Representative Democracy
13. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
International Trade
15th Amendment
Printing Press
14th Amendment
14. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
U.S. Constitution
Cottage industry
Federalist
Renaissance
15. Government ruled by a few powerful people
The Nullification Crisis
Oligarchy
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Individual Rights
16. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
environment
secondary source
Articles of Confederation
Federalism
17. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Karl Marx
Thomas Jefferson
Fund. Order of Conn.
Bubonic Plague
18. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Adam Smith
subsistence agriculture
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Totalitarianism
19. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Straits
Enlightenment
1787
nullify
20. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Direct Democracy
market - oriented agriculture
Cottage industry
Polytheism
21. 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.
Theocracy
1787
ziggurats
Self Determination
22. Economic thinker that developed communism
Karl Marx
Basic Needs
Renaissance
Monroe doctrine
23. Average number of years people live
14th Amendment
Life Expectancy
Bill of Rights
Natural Barriers
24. 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.
primary source
George Washington
tariff
Civil War
25. 1st written constitution
tariff
ratify
Life Expectancy
Fund. Order of Conn.
26. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Popular Sovereignty
international
Cuneiform
suburban
27. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
The Senate
Literacy Rate
Infant Mortality
28. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Federalist Papers
Fertile Crescent
unalienable
29. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Bubonic Plague
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Age of Exploration & Colonization
30. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Straits
Enlightenment
Draco
Abe Lincoln
31. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
bias
Printing Press
Scientific Revolution
suburban
32. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
McCullough v. Maryland
Draco
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
amendment
33. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Famine
George Washington
Straits
Montesquieu
34. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Mesoamerica civilizations
bias
Subsistence economy
market - oriented agriculture
35. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
limited government
Abraham Lincoln
13th Amendment
Longitude
36. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
market - oriented agriculture
Famine
Abe Lincoln
1787
37. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
Middle Ages
Representative democracy
Silk Road
14th Amendment
38. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Republicanism
Mesoamerica civilizations
Longitude
imports
39. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
English Bill of Rights
Scientific Revolution
Middle Ages
Bill of Rights
40. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Federalist
Mayflower Compact
Straits of Hormuz
41. This is also referred to as a city
The Senate
Direct Democracy
Barriers
Urban
42. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Emancipation Proclamation
Federalist Papers
English Bill of Rights
bias
43. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Silk Road
Nationalism
Fertile Crescent
15th Amendment
44. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Standard of living
Henry Ford
Emancipation Proclamation
Labor force
45. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Mesoamerica civilizations
Force Bill
Cathedrals
Winston Churchill
46. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
14th Amendment
market - oriented agriculture
Abraham Lincoln
1066
47. 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.
Marbury v. Madison
Force Bill
exports
Articles of Confederation
48. President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Articles of Confederation
unalienable
Limited Government
49. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Industrial Revolution
Bill of Rights
House of Burgesses
50. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Mesoamerica civilizations
Founding of Jamestown
Mayflower Compact
Capitalism/Market Economy