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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Civil War
Separation of Powers .
Secularism
Enlightenment
2. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
House of Burgesses
Articles of Confederation
Enlightenment
Capitalism/Market Economy
3. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Consent of the Governed
Fertile Crescent
1215
1776
4. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Factory System
Consent of the Governed
Mayflower Compact
Republicanism
5. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Andean civilization
rural
Panama Canal
Secularism
6. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Limited Government
Monotheism
Industrial Revolution
Representative Democracy
7. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
14th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
Constitutional Conv.
English Bill of Rights
8. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
standard of living
Industrialized
trade
Bartering
9. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
15th Amendment
ziggurats
Enlightenment
End of Reconstruction
10. 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
Enlightenment
Treaty of Paris 1783
Imperialism
11. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Representative Government
Cuneiform
Cotton Gin
Cathedrals
12. These slow down movement/migration
Abe Lincoln
Barriers
Free - enterprise economic system
standard of living
13. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Capitalism/Market Economy
Communism/Command Economy
1215
14. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Hammurabi
Famine
Ben Franklin
13th Amendment
15. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
English Bill of Rights
Straits of Hormuz
Natural Barriers
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
16. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Canals
1215
Federalist Papers
Polytheism
17. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Canals
George Washington
13th Amendment
Separation of Powers
18. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Capitalism/Market Economy
Straits
End of Reconstruction
Industrial Revolution
19. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Protestant Reformation
cottage industry
Totalitarianism
Commercial Agriculture
20. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
1791
Enlightenment
Thomas Jefferson
End of Reconstruction
21. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Silk Road
Self Determination
Plessy v. Ferguson
Consent of the Governed
22. Exchange of goods and services.
Industrial Revolution
George Washington
trade
Commercial Agriculture
23. Making goods out of the home
English Bill of Rights
Hammurabi
Cottage industry
Humanism
24. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Thomas Jefferson
Free - enterprise economic system
Bill of Rights
Popular Sovereignty
25. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Adam Smith
Canals
Constitutional Monarchy
26. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
secondary source
primary source
Natural Barriers
English Bill of Rights
27. 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
Federalist Papers
Middle Ages
Bill of Rights
Draco
28. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Age of Reason
Representative democracy
Columbian Exchange
Age of Exploration & Colonization
29. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Declaration of Indepen.
market - oriented agriculture
Separation of Powers
Straits
30. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
environment
Humanism
Scientific Revolution
Theocracy
31. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Checks and Balances
Labor force
Republicanism
Protestant Reformation
32. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
level of development
U.S. Constitution
environment
veto
33. Split in the church
Justinian
Schism
Nationalism
Oligarchy
34. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Renaissance
Articles of Confederation
Irrigation Canals
The Senate
35. Belief in one god
Enlightenment
environment
Magna Carta
Monotheism
36. To officially approve.
Basic Needs
level of development
ratify
Per Capita Income
37. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Bill of Rights
Subsistence agriculture
Famine
1066
38. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
Infant Mortality
Subsistence agriculture
Natural Barriers
39. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Marbury v. Madison
Communism/Command Economy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
40. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
limited government
Monroe doctrine
Civil War
Bubonic Plague
41. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Middle Ages
Secularism
Commercial Agriculture
Suez Canal
42. Movement of people from on country or location to another
George Washington
Migration
Republicanism
Polytheism
43. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
era
Founding of Jamestown
Renaissance
44. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
1776
Republic
grievance
45. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Enlightenment
Literacy Rate
Secularism
46. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Popular Sovereignty
Cottage industry
Subsistence agriculture
Immigration patterns
47. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Panama Canal
John Locke
13th Amendment
Immigration patterns
48. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Irrigation Canals
Labor force
Henry Ford
bias
49. Curbed States' Rights
Direct Democracy
McCullough v. Maryland
Declaration of Indepen.
limited government
50. Modern Constitution
Longitude
U.S. Constitution
tariff
Magna Carta