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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. People who settle and live in a colony
English Bill of Rights
colonists
Fertile Crescent
Suez Canal
2. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Nationalism
Inalienable/Unalienable
Cathedrals
1066
3. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Bill of Rights
John Locke
Declaration of Indepen.
Andean civilization
4. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Ben Franklin
rural
Fertile Crescent
level of development
5. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Federalist Papers
Schism
Industrial Revolution
Straits
6. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
1215
Force Bill
Famine
Plessy v. Ferguson
7. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Founding of Jamestown
Indulgences
Migration
Articles of Confederation
8. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Enlightenment
Self Determination
Cuneiform
Age of Reason
9. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Magna Carta
Individual Rights
Popular Sovereignty
Industrial Revolution
10. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Mesoamerica civilizations
McCullough v. Maryland
English Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
11. A government that elects its leaders
George Washington
federalism
The Nullification Crisis
Republic
12. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
15th Amendment
The Senate
Oligarchy
Bill of Rights
13. Pride in ones country
Basic Needs
Magna Carta
Taxation
Nationalism
14. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Popular Sovereignty
Famine
Republicanism
colonists
15. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Andean civilization
Treaty of Paris 1783
Industrial Revolution
Straits
16. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
Panama Canal
colonists
Direct Democracy
Communism/Command Economy
17. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Irrigation Canals
domestic
urban
Justinian
18. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Infant Mortality
nullify
amendment
Indulgences
19. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Self Determination
era
Civil War
Unconstitutional
20. Involving other countries
Panama Canal
Middle Ages
Declaration of Independence
international
21. Officially ended the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783
suffrage
Anti - Federalists
federalism
22. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Unconstitutional
The Senate
Republic
English Bill of Rights
23. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Individual Rights
federalism
Panama Canal
tariff
24. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
imports
Capitalism/Market Economy
Factory System
Andean civilization
25. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Magnetic Compass
Silk Road
Individual Rights
Hammurabi
26. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
Montesquieu
Iron Curtain
limited government
27. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Scientific Revolution
Declaration of Indepen.
Fertile Crescent
standard of living
28. Making goods out of the home
Monotheism
Atlantic Slave Trade
Cottage industry
International Trade
29. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Communism/Command Economy
Ben Franklin
Taxation
Monotheism
30. This is also referred to as a city
Force Bill
1787-1789
Limited Government
Urban
31. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
House of Burgesses
Plessy v. Ferguson
George Washington
Individual Rights
32. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Republicanism
Irrigation Canals
English Bill of Rights
33. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
1787-1789
Silk Road
Emancipation Proclamation
34. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Literacy Rate
Individual Rights
Subsistence economy
subsistence agriculture
35. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
15th Amendment
John Locke
Articles of Confederation
Civil War 1861-1865
36. Mountains - deserts and oceans
standard of living
Indulgences
Natural Barriers
13th Amendment
37. These slow down movement/migration
Protestant Reformation
Barriers
George Washington
The Senate
38. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
secondary source
Nullification Crisis
imports
39. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Justinian
14th Amendment
Federalist
Consent of the Governed
40. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
domestic
Separation of Powers .
Anti - Federalist
Mayflower Compact
41. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Cotton Gin
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Infant Mortality
Federalist
42. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
Bartering
Magna Carta
Justinian
43. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Karl Marx
14th Amendment
Montesquieu
Migration
44. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
bias
Montesquieu
Enlightenment
Federalist
45. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Declaration of Independence
95 Theses
Individual Rights
Atlantic Slave Trade
46. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Republicanism
Barriers
Anti - Federalists
Basic Needs
47. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Abe Lincoln
Anti - Federalist
ziggurats
Bubonic Plague
48. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Land Ordinance of 1785
Migration
Iron Curtain
Secularism
49. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
13th Amendment
Demographics
Checks and Balances
1787-1789
50. Having to do with one's own homeland
Separation of Powers .
Hammurabi
Bill of Rights
domestic