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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Standard of living
English Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Age of Reason
2. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Basic Needs
Unconstitutional
3. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
citizen
Unconstitutional
1215
Bill of Rights
4. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
States Rights
Separation of Powers .
Separation of Powers
Direct Democracy
5. Belief in many gods
Magnetic Compass
Self Determination
Popular Sovereignty
Polytheism
6. Modern Constitution
Separation of Powers .
Plessy v. Ferguson
Representative Democracy
U.S. Constitution
7. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
15th Amendment
Enlightenment
95 Theses
standard of living
8. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Individual Rights
Articles of Confederation
Industrial Revolution
Limited Government
9. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Oligarchy
ratify
Age of Reason
Subsistence agriculture
10. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Infant Mortality
Straits of Hormuz
Enlightenment
The Nullification Crisis
11. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Abraham Lincoln
English Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers
Fertile Crescent
12. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Articles of Confederation
Republicanism
Crusaders
States Rights
13. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Printing Press
nullify
Capitalism/Market Economy
Magna Carta
14. 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.
Indulgences
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Irrigation Canals
1787
15. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Barriers
Canals
Renaissance
Consent of the Governed
16. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Anti - Federalist
George Washington
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Literacy Rate
17. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
ziggurats
amendment
Industrial Revolution
Middle Ages
18. An official change to a law or document of government.
amendment
The Nullification Crisis
Federalist
Declaration of Indepen.
19. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Constitutional Conv.
Representative Democracy
Panama Canal
Magna Carta
20. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Migration
Straits of Hormuz
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Inalienable/Unalienable
21. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
15th Amendment
Henry Ford
1776
22. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
Columbian Exchange
Self Determination
Parliament
Anti - Federalist
23. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Literacy Rate
Iron Curtain
House of Burgesses
Republic
24. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Ben Franklin
Parliament
Secularism
Civil War
25. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Magna Carta
Monroe doctrine
Individual Rights
Life Expectancy
26. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Famine
Articles of Conf.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
1787-1789
27. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Columbian Exchange
Subsistence agriculture
Individual Rights
Hammurabi
28. Average income per person
Hammurabi
Individual Rights
trade
Per Capita Income
29. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Individual Rights
(naval) blockade
Bill of Rights
Magnetic Compass
30. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Thomas Jefferson
Per Capita Income
Straits of Hormuz
Force Bill
31. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Consent of the Governed
veto
Latitude
Federalism
32. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Standard of living
Karl Marx
George Washington
33. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Commercial Agriculture
ziggurats
Hammurabi
Plessy v. Ferguson
34. Making goods out of the home
Industrial Revolution
Republic
Cottage industry
Popular Sovereignty
35. A government that elects its leaders
Natural Barriers
Separation of Powers .
Republic
Thomas Jefferson
36. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Andean civilization
Humanism
Straits
Age of Reason
37. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1787-1789
Land Ordinance of 1785
Civil War
15th Amendment
38. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
Indulgences
Magna Carta
States Rights
39. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Articles of Confederation
Individual Rights
federalism
English Bill of Rights
40. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Marbury v. Madison
Federalist Papers
Immigration patterns
95 Theses
41. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Federalist
1787
Draco
Middle Ages
42. Who opposed the Constitution?
Secularism
House of Burgesses
Unconstitutional
Anti - Federalists
43. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
subsistence agriculture
secondary source
Protestant Reformation
ziggurats
44. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
Enlightenment
tariff
Separation of Powers .
45. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
U.S. Constitution
1066
Federalist Papers
Anti - Federalist
46. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Imperialism
Federalist Papers
Straits of Hormuz
Magnetic Compass
47. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
1066
Secularism
Canals
Demographics
48. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Bill of Rights
Civil War
Iron Curtain
Federalism
49. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
tariff
Constitutional Monarchy
Consent of the Governed
Secularism
50. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Columbian Exchange
Famine
The Senate
Commercial Agriculture