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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
1776
Nationalism
Federalist Papers
rural
2. An official change to a law or document of government.
amendment
Popular Sovereignty
Marbury v. Madison
(naval) blockade
3. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Republic
Cotton Gin
Articles of Conf.
End of Reconstruction
4. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Factory System
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Polytheism
primary source
5. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Anti - Federalists
Sub - Saharan Africa .
14th Amendment
Middle Ages
6. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Theocracy
Civil War
(naval) blockade
International Trade
7. A government that elects its leaders
International Trade
Republic
Federalist Papers
Imperialism
8. Established Judicial Review.
limited government
13th Amendment
Capitalism/Market Economy
Marbury v. Madison
9. Who opposed the Constitution?
End of Reconstruction
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Republicanism
Anti - Federalists
10. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Draco
limited government
Mesoamerica civilizations
George Washington
11. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Articles of Conf.
Federalism
Commercial Agriculture
Straits
12. Modern Constitution
U.S. Constitution
Theocracy
Suez Canal
Mesoamerica civilizations
13. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Irrigation Canals
era
Draco
Nullification Crisis
14. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Articles of Confederation
Fertile Crescent
suburban
Parliament
15. These slow down movement/migration
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Popular Sovereignty
Barriers
16. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Thomas Jefferson
Parliament
Separation of Powers .
Ben Franklin
17. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Humanism
limited government
Enlightenment
13th Amendment
18. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
George Washington
Industrial Revolution
Protestant Reformation
1791
19. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Standard of living
Life Expectancy
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
unalienable
20. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
King George III
Individual Rights
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
federalism
21. 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.
Suez Canal
Representative Government
domestic
Checks and Balances
22. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Basic Needs
Winston Churchill
Subsistence economy
Communism/Command Economy
23. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Printing Press
95 Theses
Force Bill
Federalist Papers
24. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
urban
Middle Ages
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Taxation
25. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Cotton Gin
Representative democracy
Secularism
tariff
26. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
secondary source
Republicanism
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Federalism
27. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Longitude
Immigration patterns
Crusaders
Mayflower Compact (1620)
28. Tax on imports and exports.
English Bill of Rights
Declaration of Indepen.
tariff
Representative Democracy
29. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
1066
trade
Latitude
Checks and Balances
30. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Marbury v. Madison
Parliament
Representative Democracy
Renaissance
31. 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.
Republic
nullify
Schism
Free - enterprise economic system
32. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
Enlightenment
1787-1789
secondary source
33. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Free - enterprise economic system
cultural diffusion
standard of living
Imperialism
34. 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
Famine
1791
imports
35. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Imperialism
Constitutional Monarchy
Indulgences
Traditional economy
36. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Labor force
Popular Sovereignty
Representative Government
Individual Rights
37. Average income per person
Factory System
End of Reconstruction
Per Capita Income
Subsistence economy
38. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Oligarchy
Nationalism
Bill of Rights
Montesquieu
39. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Capitalism/Market Economy
Magnetic Compass
13th Amendment
urban
40. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Cotton Gin
Urban
John Locke
Henry Ford
41. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Representative Democracy
Free - enterprise economic system
Immigration patterns
urban
42. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Emancipation Proclamation
Monotheism
Demographics
rural
43. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
(naval) blockade
Demographics
domestic
Irrigation Canals
44. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Mayflower Compact
bias
Humanism
Articles of Confederation
45. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Crusaders
Urban
Labor force
Monroe doctrine
46. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Magna Carta
Secularism
Basic Needs
Suez Canal
47. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Declaration of Independence
Federalist
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Migration
48. All things that surround us.
Articles of Confederation
environment
subsistence agriculture
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
49. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Civil War
citizen
bias
Cottage industry
50. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Age of Reason
George Washington
colonists
Separation of Powers