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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
primary source
Emancipation Proclamation
Unconstitutional
Industrial Revolution
2. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Nullification Crisis
Scientific Revolution
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War
3. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Individual Rights
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
95 Theses
federalism
4. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Totalitarianism
Individual Rights
1066
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
5. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Separation of Powers
Thomas Jefferson
Demographics
The Senate
6. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Secularism
(naval) blockade
Basic Needs
Commercial Agriculture
7. 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.
Checks and Balances
Age of Reason
Crusaders
Founding of Jamestown
8. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Industrialization
domestic
Secularism
citizen
9. Average number of years people live
1066
Magna Carta
Unconstitutional
Life Expectancy
10. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
federalism
Civil War 1861-1865
Winston Churchill
Articles of Confederation
11. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Anti - Federalists
Mayflower Compact
Iron Curtain
Fund. Order of Conn.
12. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Draco
Industrial Revolution
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Life Expectancy
13. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
13th Amendment
Cathedrals
Bill of Rights
Columbian Exchange
14. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Abe Lincoln
Renaissance
George Washington
Emancipation Proclamation
15. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Traditional economy
14th Amendment
Natural Barriers
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
16. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Enlightenment
Founding of Jamestown
Magna Carta
Separation of Powers .
17. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Basic Needs
International Trade
Popular Sovereignty
Constitutional Monarchy
18. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
bias
13th Amendment
exports
Magna Carta
19. Mass production of food
Commercial Agriculture
The Nullification Crisis
Migration
States Rights
20. Government where the religious leader run the government
Theocracy
Magnetic Compass
Declaration of Indepen.
Mayflower Compact
21. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
Industrial Revolution
Montesquieu
Andean civilization
22. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
limited government
Straits of Hormuz
Federalist Papers
Magna Carta
23. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Civil War 1861-1865
Traditional economy
Literacy Rate
Separation of Powers
24. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Nullification Crisis
Industrial Revolution
Constitutional Conv.
Civil War 1861-1865
25. Complaints
Communism/Command Economy
Standard of living
States Rights
grievance
26. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
limited government
ratify
Hammurabi
14th Amendment
27. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
1215
Representative Government
primary source
George Washington
28. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
cultural diffusion
Taxation
Emancipation Proclamation
29. An official change to a law or document of government.
Monroe doctrine
Ben Franklin
amendment
Separation of Powers
30. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
John Locke
1787
Urban
Henry Ford
31. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Individual Rights
Crusaders
Marbury v. Madison
Plessy v. Ferguson
32. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
international
Andean civilization
Communism/Command Economy
33. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
95 Theses
Articles of Conf.
Constitutional Monarchy
Industrialized
34. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
George Washington
States Rights
95 Theses
Straits of Hormuz
35. First representative assembly in American
Unconstitutional
Anti - Federalist
House of Burgesses
Magna Carta
36. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Popular Sovereignty
Bill of Rights
Absolute Monarchy
Federalism
37. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Communism/Command Economy
Industrialized
Abe Lincoln
Federalist Papers
38. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Industrialization
Constitutional Conv.
cottage industry
Straits of Hormuz
39. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Hammurabi
Declaration of Independence
suburban
Consent of the Governed
40. To officially approve.
ratify
Enlightenment
Demographics
International Trade
41. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Articles of Conf.
Adam Smith
Popular Sovereignty
Land Ordinance of 1785
42. Officially ended the American Revolution
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Bill of Rights
Absolute Monarchy
Treaty of Paris 1783
43. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
secondary source
Constitutional Conv.
unalienable
44. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Articles of Confederation
Taxation
suburban
Republicanism
45. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
1863 Emancipation Pro
Absolute Monarchy
Federalist Papers
Inalienable/Unalienable
46. 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
English Bill of Rights
market - oriented agriculture
Silk Road
Monotheism
47. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Representative Government
Monotheism
1776
federalism
48. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Imperialism
Articles of Conf.
Middle Ages
Plessy v. Ferguson
49. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Immigration patterns
imports
Abe Lincoln
Polytheism
50. Pride in ones country
Plessy v. Ferguson
Constitutional Conv.
Nationalism
Infant Mortality