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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 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
Limited Government
international
Secularism
2. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Articles of Conf.
Thomas Jefferson
colonists
Labor force
3. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Representative democracy
John Locke
Adam Smith
Individual Rights
4. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Imperialism
Republicanism
Canals
Unconstitutional
5. President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Immigration patterns
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
6. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Popular Sovereignty
Migration
Constitutional Monarchy
1787
7. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Cathedrals
Henry Ford
Straits
Thomas Jefferson
8. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Articles of Confederation
End of Reconstruction
Cottage industry
Separation of Powers .
9. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
veto
Federalist
Republicanism
10. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Cottage industry
Henry Ford
Ben Franklin
11. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Federalism
Commercial Agriculture
Mayflower Compact
1863 Emancipation Pro
12. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Capitalism/Market Economy
Federalist Papers
English Bill of Rights
Canals
13. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Iron Curtain
Traditional economy
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Plessy v. Ferguson
14. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Straits of Hormuz
Standard of living
1787-1789
Bill of Rights
15. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
Inalienable/Unalienable
Federalism
suburban
16. Exchange of goods and services.
Federalist
trade
bias
Taxation
17. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Draco
George Washington
Representative democracy
Theocracy
18. Modern Constitution
Barriers
Cathedrals
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
U.S. Constitution
19. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Direct Democracy
Thomas Jefferson
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Subsistence economy
20. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
Representative Government
15th Amendment
Self Determination
21. 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
Anti - Federalist
amendment
Inalienable/Unalienable
Subsistence agriculture
22. Tax on imports and exports.
Thomas Jefferson
Abe Lincoln
nullify
tariff
23. 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
trade
Immigration patterns
Industrialization
Columbian Exchange
24. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Plessy v. Ferguson
Magna Carta
ratify
25. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
14th Amendment
Communism/Command Economy
1787
26. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Representative democracy
U.S. Constitution
Federalist Papers
Consent of the Governed
27. A government that elects its leaders
Cottage industry
Literacy Rate
primary source
Republic
28. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
primary source
English Bill of Rights
Declaration of Indepen.
End of Reconstruction
29. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
exports
Canals
Bill of Rights
Age of Exploration & Colonization
30. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
bias
primary source
Oligarchy
31. 1st written constitution
Nationalism
Industrial Revolution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Bill of Rights
32. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Bubonic Plague
Montesquieu
Cathedrals
Latitude
33. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
citizen
Longitude
Self Determination
trade
34. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Articles of Confederation
Plessy v. Ferguson
urban
Nationalism
35. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
market - oriented agriculture
Mayflower Compact
Ben Franklin
Printing Press
36. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Checks and Balances
Representative democracy
Federalism
Subsistence economy
37. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.
Natural Barriers
Atlantic Slave Trade
Industrialization
Force Bill
38. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Separation of Powers
Bubonic Plague
suburban
13th Amendment
39. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Anti - Federalist
(naval) blockade
Self Determination
Renaissance
40. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
1066
Theocracy
Per Capita Income
41. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Magna Carta
Barriers
Per Capita Income
Republic
42. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Magna Carta
ratify
suffrage
Mayflower Compact
43. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
unalienable
Scientific Revolution
44. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
15th Amendment
English Bill of Rights
1787-1789
Magna Carta
45. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
George Washington
bias
Thomas Jefferson
46. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Humanism
Sub - Saharan Africa .
international
Adam Smith
47. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Limited Government
(naval) blockade
Thomas Jefferson
Constitutional Monarchy
48. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
colonists
Bubonic Plague
15th Amendment
Straits
49. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Popular Sovereignty
nullify
Justinian
Secularism
50. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Industrial Revolution
Consent of the Governed
15th Amendment
Iron Curtain