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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Magna Carta
Natural Barriers
Infant Mortality
Popular Sovereignty
2. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
1066
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
suburban
15th Amendment
3. 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
International Trade
Silk Road
Founding of Jamestown
Separation of Powers
4. Government where the religious leader run the government
1787
Winston Churchill
International Trade
Theocracy
5. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Mesoamerica civilizations
Longitude
Protestant Reformation
Demographics
6. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
cultural diffusion
English Bill of Rights
Scientific Revolution
Checks and Balances
7. 1st written constitution
Free - enterprise economic system
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Federalism
Fund. Order of Conn.
8. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Karl Marx
Infant Mortality
Abe Lincoln
suffrage
9. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Panama Canal
cottage industry
Representative Government
Humanism
10. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Industrial Revolution
Totalitarianism
exports
Thomas Jefferson
11. To officially approve.
Fund. Order of Conn.
Bill of Rights
ratify
tariff
12. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
cottage industry
colonists
Popular Sovereignty
Migration
13. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Traditional economy
Bartering
Plessy v. Ferguson
Constitutional Monarchy
14. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Andean civilization
Barriers
Justinian
International Trade
15. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
Immigration patterns
Barriers
exports
16. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
1066
Industrialized
urban
Marbury v. Madison
17. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
House of Burgesses
95 Theses
15th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
18. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Separation of Powers .
Checks and Balances
Sub - Saharan Africa .
rural
19. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
English Bill of Rights
Parliament
Mesoamerica civilizations
Columbian Exchange
20. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Barriers
Montesquieu
secondary source
Individual Rights
21. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Magna Carta
House of Burgesses
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Polytheism
22. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Constitutional Conv.
veto
Imperialism
Natural Barriers
23. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
15th Amendment
Magnetic Compass
Fertile Crescent
Straits of Hormuz
24. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
13th Amendment
Bubonic Plague
Andean civilization
McCullough v. Maryland
25. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Civil War 1861-1865
cottage industry
English Bill of Rights
Imperialism
26. Pride in ones country
House of Burgesses
Checks and Balances
Nationalism
Mayflower Compact
27. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Canals
Constitutional Monarchy
Federalist Papers
28. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Representative democracy
Magna Carta
Industrialization
Secularism
29. King/queen who has unlimited power
Absolute Monarchy
Winston Churchill
Limited Government
suffrage
30. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
John Locke
suffrage
31. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
suburban
Cottage industry
Industrial Revolution
32. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
Thomas Jefferson
Enlightenment
13th Amendment
33. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
level of development
Abe Lincoln
Cathedrals
Nationalism
34. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Individual Rights
Straits
Renaissance
Panama Canal
35. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
primary source
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Constitutional Conv.
Demographics
36. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
standard of living
Articles of Confederation
Abe Lincoln
The Nullification Crisis
37. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Panama Canal
Urban
House of Burgesses
Literacy Rate
38. A government that elects its leaders
Cottage industry
Republic
Federalist
Magnetic Compass
39. Split in the church
Nullification Crisis
1066
Schism
Checks and Balances
40. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Articles of Conf.
Federalist Papers
Standard of living
Plessy v. Ferguson
41. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Constitutional Monarchy
Self Determination
Humanism
environment
42. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Self Determination
Popular Sovereignty
secondary source
Civil War
43. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Marbury v. Madison
Age of Reason
Separation of Powers .
Literacy Rate
44. 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.
Cathedrals
nullify
Mayflower Compact (1620)
primary source
45. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Bartering
Hammurabi
Magnetic Compass
46. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Republicanism
Traditional economy
George Washington
environment
47. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
suffrage
Magna Carta
Land Ordinance of 1785
McCullough v. Maryland
48. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Standard of living
tariff
Inalienable/Unalienable
Unconstitutional
49. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Karl Marx
Separation of Powers
Thomas Jefferson
Abe Lincoln
50. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
1215
level of development
Thomas Jefferson
Self Determination