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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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1. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Subsistence economy
14th Amendment
Canals
Republicanism
2. 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
Industrial Revolution
Individual Rights
Cuneiform
Silk Road
3. 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.
1791
Free - enterprise economic system
Polytheism
1215
4. Officially ended the American Revolution
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Treaty of Paris 1783
Cottage industry
Abe Lincoln
5. To officially approve.
Irrigation Canals
Latitude
ratify
Longitude
6. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Straits
The Nullification Crisis
Individual Rights
Checks and Balances
7. Involving other countries
international
Commercial Agriculture
Straits
primary source
8. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Republic
Standard of living
Land Ordinance of 1785
Popular Sovereignty
9. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
Free - enterprise economic system
Marbury v. Madison
Fertile Crescent
10. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Basic Needs
Land Ordinance of 1785
imports
Declaration of Independence
11. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Fertile Crescent
Imperialism
era
Age of Exploration & Colonization
12. Belief in one god
Life Expectancy
market - oriented agriculture
Monotheism
Federalism
13. Established Judicial Review.
The Senate
Marbury v. Madison
Unconstitutional
Migration
14. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
1776
Columbian Exchange
1863 Emancipation Pro
15. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Ben Franklin
Magna Carta
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Labor force
16. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Justinian
nullify
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Limited Government
17. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
States Rights
Iron Curtain
Migration
Silk Road
18. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Fund. Order of Conn.
Irrigation Canals
Draco
Scientific Revolution
19. 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.
Declaration of Indepen.
subsistence agriculture
Constitutional Conv.
Force Bill
20. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
Humanism
English Bill of Rights
Latitude
21. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
level of development
Treaty of Paris 1783
federalism
Cathedrals
22. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Literacy Rate
Famine
era
Federalism
23. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
English Bill of Rights
standard of living
Limited Government
McCullough v. Maryland
24. Economic thinker that developed communism
Land Ordinance of 1785
Karl Marx
Absolute Monarchy
Plessy v. Ferguson
25. Modern Constitution
Consent of the Governed
U.S. Constitution
Scientific Revolution
Atlantic Slave Trade
26. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Cathedrals
Renaissance
Canals
Magna Carta
27. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Emancipation Proclamation
Plessy v. Ferguson
Labor force
Straits of Hormuz
28. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
15th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Karl Marx
Mayflower Compact
29. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
George Washington
Civil War
Bartering
Secularism
30. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Capitalism/Market Economy
U.S. Constitution
13th Amendment
Treaty of Paris 1783
31. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
1787
Irrigation Canals
32. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Declaration of Indepen.
Civil War
13th Amendment
1215
33. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Individual Rights
Magnetic Compass
Articles of Confederation
ziggurats
34. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Longitude
Monroe doctrine
Popular Sovereignty
35. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Per Capita Income
Plessy v. Ferguson
States Rights
Magna Carta
36. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Barriers
Subsistence economy
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Popular Sovereignty
37. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Columbian Exchange
Traditional economy
Declaration of Independence
Indulgences
38. 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
bias
Schism
Anti - Federalist
Separation of Powers .
39. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
limited government
Separation of Powers .
Immigration patterns
1863 Emancipation Pro
40. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Oligarchy
Separation of Powers .
exports
Republicanism
41. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
domestic
urban
Mesoamerica civilizations
1215
42. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Age of Reason
Communism/Command Economy
cultural diffusion
Thomas Jefferson
43. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
nullify
Humanism
Land Ordinance of 1785
Bill of Rights
44. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Imperialism
English Bill of Rights
1791
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
45. 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
Columbian Exchange
Individual Rights
Cuneiform
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
46. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
14th Amendment
Unconstitutional
Urban
Nullification Crisis
47. 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.
Consent of the Governed
Monroe doctrine
1787
Iron Curtain
48. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abe Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
nullify
federalism
49. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Indulgences
Age of Reason
14th Amendment
50. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
Industrialized
Republic
Adam Smith
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