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TAKS 10th Grade World History

Subjects : taks, history
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1. Routes of human movement from one area into another.






2. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights






3. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc






4. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation






5. People who settle and live in a colony






6. President of the United States during the Civil War






7. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?






8. Making goods out of the home






9. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.






10. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe






11. Flat - horizontal lines on a map






12. A written plan of government for the colonies created a weak league of 13 nearly independent states in 1777. The 1st Constitution of the U.S.






13. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people






14. To officially approve.






15. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible






16. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water






17. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers






18. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over






19. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.






20. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)






21. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.






22. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.






23. Established Judicial Review.






24. 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






25. Government ruled by a few powerful people






26. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot






27. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness






28. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.






29. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code






30. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.






31. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.






32. 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.






33. First representative assembly in American






34. Percent of people in a country that can read and write






35. Exchange of goods and services.






36. Average number of years people live






37. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'






38. 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.






39. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North






40. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money






41. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain






42. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.






43. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea






44. 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






45. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.






46. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture






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.






48. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.






49. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.






50. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)







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