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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Involving other countries
international
secondary source
Draco
Oligarchy
2. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
15th Amendment
Individual Rights
Separation of Powers .
Thomas Jefferson
3. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Life Expectancy
Migration
Free - enterprise economic system
Traditional economy
4. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
(naval) blockade
Industrialized
George Washington
Individual Rights
5. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Renaissance
House of Burgesses
Declaration of Indepen.
Oligarchy
6. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Nationalism
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Irrigation Canals
Cottage industry
7. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Famine
14th Amendment
Protestant Reformation
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
8. Economic thinker that developed communism
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Columbian Exchange
Industrial Revolution
Karl Marx
9. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Thomas Jefferson
Straits
Federalist Papers
Thomas Jefferson
10. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Articles of Confederation
Atlantic Slave Trade
Absolute Monarchy
international
11. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
1066
Totalitarianism
Treaty of Paris 1783
English Bill of Rights
12. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
bias
standard of living
1066
Abraham Lincoln
13. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Famine
The Senate
Subsistence economy
rural
14. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Immigration patterns
Consent of the Governed
Scientific Revolution
Articles of Confederation
15. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Constitutional Conv.
Straits of Hormuz
Republicanism
suburban
16. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Thomas Jefferson
federalism
Totalitarianism
Parliament
17. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Iron Curtain
Adam Smith
Justinian
John Locke
18. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
Enlightenment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalist Papers
19. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
Thomas Jefferson
Separation of Powers .
Oligarchy
20. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Andean civilization
Magnetic Compass
The Senate
Protestant Reformation
21. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Industrial Revolution
King George III
Migration
citizen
22. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
1787
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Nationalism
23. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Declaration of Independence
trade
nullify
Federalism
24. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
urban
imports
Plessy v. Ferguson
Henry Ford
25. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
citizen
Bartering
House of Burgesses
Civil War
26. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Representative Government
Basic Needs
Anti - Federalist
environment
27. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Industrialized
English Bill of Rights
Industrialization
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
28. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Panama Canal
environment
Articles of Confederation
George Washington
29. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
imports
1066
The Nullification Crisis
Indulgences
30. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Montesquieu
era
Age of Exploration & Colonization
95 Theses
31. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Bill of Rights
Migration
1787-1789
Iron Curtain
32. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Separation of Powers
cultural diffusion
ziggurats
Declaration of Indepen.
33. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Fertile Crescent
Imperialism
Individual Rights
34. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Andean civilization
Imperialism
subsistence agriculture
U.S. Constitution
35. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Federalism
Justinian
Panama Canal
standard of living
36. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
1791
standard of living
Subsistence agriculture
suburban
37. 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.
George Washington
Free - enterprise economic system
ziggurats
Popular Sovereignty
38. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Civil War
Cotton Gin
Mesoamerica civilizations
39. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
Schism
Montesquieu
Bartering
40. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Articles of Confederation
Industrialization
Civil War
veto
41. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
U.S. Constitution
Crusaders
Anti - Federalist
Subsistence agriculture
42. Modern Constitution
environment
U.S. Constitution
suffrage
Renaissance
43. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Montesquieu
Articles of Confederation
subsistence agriculture
Civil War
44. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Immigration patterns
Separation of Powers
Panama Canal
Bubonic Plague
45. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Federalist
Migration
nullify
Self Determination
46. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
standard of living
tariff
Renaissance
Industrialization
47. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Articles of Confederation
Federalism
Enlightenment
Immigration patterns
48. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
domestic
Popular Sovereignty
Anti - Federalists
Federalist
49. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
Cathedrals
Free - enterprise economic system
limited government
50. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
House of Burgesses
Henry Ford
Industrial Revolution
Urban