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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marbury v. Madison
English Bill of Rights
Federalist Papers
2. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
1215
Absolute Monarchy
Mayflower Compact
(naval) blockade
3. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Articles of Confederation
Commercial Agriculture
Henry Ford
Fertile Crescent
4. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
15th Amendment
Renaissance
Schism
5. First organizing of 13 colonies.
McCullough v. Maryland
Schism
Articles of Conf.
Hammurabi
6. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Articles of Confederation
environment
English Bill of Rights
Totalitarianism
7. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
14th Amendment
Straits
Suez Canal
ratify
8. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Oligarchy
English Bill of Rights
Migration
Bill of Rights
9. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Checks and Balances
Latitude
Bartering
Mesoamerica civilizations
10. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Polytheism
Winston Churchill
Schism
Suez Canal
11. Split in the church
Schism
Scientific Revolution
Polytheism
Factory System
12. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Republic
Republicanism
Representative Government
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
13. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Republic
Printing Press
Civil War
Constitutional Conv.
14. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Protestant Reformation
Enlightenment
Republic
Scientific Revolution
15. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Latitude
urban
Separation of Powers
Direct Democracy
16. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
nullify
14th Amendment
Popular Sovereignty
Self Determination
17. Mountains - deserts and oceans
environment
Republicanism
Natural Barriers
cultural diffusion
18. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
grievance
unalienable
1787
nullify
19. Average income per person
Magnetic Compass
Ben Franklin
English Bill of Rights
Per Capita Income
20. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Enlightenment
ziggurats
1787-1789
Individual Rights
21. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
House of Burgesses
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
King George III
suburban
22. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Separation of Powers .
Emancipation Proclamation
14th Amendment
Limited Government
23. Government where the religious leader run the government
Protestant Reformation
Printing Press
Theocracy
Enlightenment
24. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
Schism
Panama Canal
Nationalism
25. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Bubonic Plague
Federalism
Bill of Rights
Cotton Gin
26. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Subsistence economy
Columbian Exchange
Treaty of Paris 1783
Hammurabi
27. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
limited government
Representative democracy
15th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
28. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Crusaders
95 Theses
Industrialized
Migration
29. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
(naval) blockade
Famine
Checks and Balances
30. To officially approve.
Middle Ages
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
ratify
31. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Declaration of Indepen.
Declaration of Independence
Commercial Agriculture
Irrigation Canals
32. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Emancipation Proclamation
Separation of Powers
Mayflower Compact
amendment
33. Tax on imports and exports.
Treaty of Paris 1783
Magna Carta
Popular Sovereignty
tariff
34. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Constitutional Monarchy
Factory System
amendment
Self Determination
35. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Suez Canal
Magnetic Compass
veto
John Locke
36. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Longitude
nullify
Bill of Rights
1863 Emancipation Pro
37. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
rural
International Trade
subsistence agriculture
House of Burgesses
38. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Enlightenment
Emancipation Proclamation
Humanism
Fund. Order of Conn.
39. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Representative Government
Free - enterprise economic system
Limited Government
Karl Marx
40. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cathedrals
standard of living
Federalist Papers
ziggurats
41. Officially ended the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783
Suez Canal
1787
Fertile Crescent
42. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Ben Franklin
Famine
Middle Ages
Nullification Crisis
43. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Traditional economy
Abraham Lincoln
44. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Taxation
Printing Press
Ben Franklin
Self Determination
45. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Draco
Republic
Federalist Papers
Representative Democracy
46. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Crusaders
Atlantic Slave Trade
Industrialized
Fund. Order of Conn.
47. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
English Bill of Rights
Latitude
Bartering
environment
48. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Magna Carta
Industrialization
Anti - Federalists
Demographics
49. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
Thomas Jefferson
Irrigation Canals
English Bill of Rights
50. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Anti - Federalists
nullify
Latitude
Industrial Revolution