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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
Checks and Balances
Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
2. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Individual Rights
Cotton Gin
14th Amendment
Declaration of Indepen.
3. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Industrialization
Nullification Crisis
Secularism
Crusaders
4. 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.
End of Reconstruction
Republicanism
1787
Popular Sovereignty
5. Pride in ones country
Hammurabi
Founding of Jamestown
Andean civilization
Nationalism
6. 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
Thomas Jefferson
(naval) blockade
Popular Sovereignty
7. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Industrial Revolution
Limited Government
Emancipation Proclamation
1215
8. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Abe Lincoln
Articles of Conf.
Totalitarianism
1863 Emancipation Pro
9. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Monotheism
States Rights
Anti - Federalist
Draco
10. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Articles of Confederation
tariff
cultural diffusion
95 Theses
11. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Bubonic Plague
Magna Carta
Andean civilization
Traditional economy
12. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
15th Amendment
Literacy Rate
Commercial Agriculture
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
13. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Draco
suburban
Civil War
Anti - Federalists
14. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Factory System
Plessy v. Ferguson
Subsistence agriculture
Migration
15. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Scientific Revolution
McCullough v. Maryland
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Draco
16. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
1215
Plessy v. Ferguson
Secularism
Columbian Exchange
17. Average income per person
Standard of living
Traditional economy
Per Capita Income
Cottage industry
18. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Panama Canal
Marbury v. Madison
House of Burgesses
Famine
19. Mass production of food
level of development
Commercial Agriculture
1776
Cotton Gin
20. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Straits
Immigration patterns
Constitutional Monarchy
Land Ordinance of 1785
21. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
ziggurats
Middle Ages
Cuneiform
14th Amendment
22. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Treaty of Paris 1783
cultural diffusion
trade
Representative democracy
23. Established Judicial Review.
Mesoamerica civilizations
13th Amendment
Bill of Rights
Marbury v. Madison
24. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Bill of Rights
Representative Government
Infant Mortality
Middle Ages
25. 1st written constitution
George Washington
Cathedrals
Limited Government
Fund. Order of Conn.
26. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Karl Marx
subsistence agriculture
Printing Press
1863 Emancipation Pro
27. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Justinian
federalism
citizen
Longitude
28. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Per Capita Income
unalienable
House of Burgesses
Draco
29. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abe Lincoln
George Washington
Magna Carta
Indulgences
30. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
Cottage industry
grievance
End of Reconstruction
31. Economic thinker that developed communism
Bill of Rights
Subsistence economy
federalism
Karl Marx
32. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Consent of the Governed
Karl Marx
level of development
federalism
33. 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.
primary source
Cathedrals
Commercial Agriculture
Limited Government
34. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Thomas Jefferson
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Articles of Conf.
Subsistence agriculture
35. 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.
exports
Emancipation Proclamation
Free - enterprise economic system
Land Ordinance of 1785
36. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.
Cotton Gin
Force Bill
Checks and Balances
grievance
37. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Winston Churchill
1066
Andean civilization
(naval) blockade
38. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
international
Montesquieu
Migration
veto
39. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
Communism/Command Economy
Land Ordinance of 1785
exports
40. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Totalitarianism
cottage industry
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
King George III
41. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Declaration of Independence
Mayflower Compact (1620)
End of Reconstruction
Industrial Revolution
42. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Labor force
Literacy Rate
Magna Carta
Cottage industry
43. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
(naval) blockade
Immigration patterns
Plessy v. Ferguson
Articles of Conf.
44. Split in the church
King George III
Schism
Marbury v. Madison
suburban
45. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Traditional economy
nullify
Industrialized
domestic
46. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Commercial Agriculture
Karl Marx
International Trade
Federalist Papers
47. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
13th Amendment
George Washington
Industrialization
Industrial Revolution
48. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
primary source
End of Reconstruction
McCullough v. Maryland
Federalism
49. Who opposed the Constitution?
Representative Government
Anti - Federalists
Federalist Papers
John Locke
50. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
The Nullification Crisis
States Rights
Sub - Saharan Africa .
International Trade