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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Magnetic Compass
Magna Carta
Montesquieu
Humanism
2. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Free - enterprise economic system
John Locke
exports
1787
3. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Natural Barriers
Longitude
Bartering
Age of Reason
4. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
13th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
Enlightenment
5. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Industrialization
Fertile Crescent
citizen
Civil War
6. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
King George III
International Trade
Imperialism
Bill of Rights
7. Complaints
1863 Emancipation Pro
Humanism
grievance
suffrage
8. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Panama Canal
Monroe doctrine
Emancipation Proclamation
Republicanism
9. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
13th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
federalism
Popular Sovereignty
10. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Force Bill
Justinian
Protestant Reformation
Thomas Jefferson
11. An official change to a law or document of government.
Emancipation Proclamation
imports
George Washington
amendment
12. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
federalism
Representative Democracy
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
13. A government that elects its leaders
15th Amendment
Canals
Traditional economy
Republic
14. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Taxation
14th Amendment
Cathedrals
Separation of Powers
15. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Self Determination
Indulgences
Labor force
Printing Press
16. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Capitalism/Market Economy
Checks and Balances
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
17. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
1066
Barriers
English Bill of Rights
1215
18. 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.
Force Bill
federalism
Infant Mortality
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
19. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
ziggurats
market - oriented agriculture
Declaration of Independence
Urban
20. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
1787
Federalism
Adam Smith
grievance
21. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
ratify
Civil War
Bill of Rights
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
22. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Land Ordinance of 1785
Humanism
Marbury v. Madison
1787-1789
23. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
Direct Democracy
Oligarchy
Bill of Rights
24. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Founding of Jamestown
Suez Canal
Subsistence economy
25. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Representative democracy
The Senate
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
subsistence agriculture
26. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Representative Democracy
Unconstitutional
States Rights
Representative Government
27. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Scientific Revolution
Plessy v. Ferguson
Industrialized
Industrialization
28. This is also referred to as a city
Fund. Order of Conn.
Urban
Montesquieu
cottage industry
29. Officially ended the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783
Labor force
Limited Government
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
30. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
George Washington
Panama Canal
unalienable
Articles of Confederation
31. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Consent of the Governed
level of development
market - oriented agriculture
Constitutional Conv.
32. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Totalitarianism
15th Amendment
imports
33. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
exports
Longitude
Infant Mortality
Articles of Confederation
34. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Separation of Powers .
Subsistence economy
International Trade
Labor force
35. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Thomas Jefferson
urban
Panama Canal
1776
36. 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
Land Ordinance of 1785
Emancipation Proclamation
Middle Ages
Representative Democracy
37. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Factory System
Karl Marx
Standard of living
38. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
George Washington
Civil War 1861-1865
Industrialization
Mesoamerica civilizations
39. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Subsistence agriculture
standard of living
1215
Karl Marx
40. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Federalist Papers
States Rights
Industrialization
Standard of living
41. Established Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
Commercial Agriculture
Subsistence economy
Thomas Jefferson
42. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Declaration of Indepen.
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Per Capita Income
43. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Plessy v. Ferguson
Parliament
Limited Government
Separation of Powers
44. Average number of years people live
Demographics
Life Expectancy
Subsistence economy
Checks and Balances
45. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1787-1789
Thomas Jefferson
federalism
Subsistence agriculture
46. 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.
Anti - Federalist
Checks and Balances
international
Per Capita Income
47. 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.
Labor force
bias
Urban
Free - enterprise economic system
48. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Iron Curtain
Bill of Rights
Abe Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
49. King of England during the American Revolution.
Treaty of Paris 1783
Plessy v. Ferguson
King George III
primary source
50. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Limited Government
Bubonic Plague
Inalienable/Unalienable
Land Ordinance of 1785