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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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1. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Montesquieu
Migration
limited government
2. 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
Magna Carta
Columbian Exchange
ziggurats
Polytheism
3. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Standard of living
Cathedrals
Indulgences
Industrialization
4. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
trade
Separation of Powers
Enlightenment
5. Having to do with one's own homeland
Fund. Order of Conn.
domestic
Karl Marx
federalism
6. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Republic
Direct Democracy
Marbury v. Madison
Straits of Hormuz
7. 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.
Columbian Exchange
Free - enterprise economic system
George Washington
Force Bill
8. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Fertile Crescent
Articles of Confederation
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Brown v. Board of Edu.
9. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Printing Press
Standard of living
suffrage
15th Amendment
10. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Industrial Revolution
King George III
Direct Democracy
International Trade
11. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
(naval) blockade
Polytheism
Age of Exploration & Colonization
12. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Articles of Confederation
Basic Needs
era
1215
13. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
secondary source
English Bill of Rights
federalism
Direct Democracy
14. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Consent of the Governed
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
Free - enterprise economic system
15. Economic thinker that developed communism
1863 Emancipation Pro
Karl Marx
Republicanism
Thomas Jefferson
16. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Barriers
Limited Government
The Nullification Crisis
Constitutional Conv.
17. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Emancipation Proclamation
Force Bill
primary source
Straits of Hormuz
18. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
cultural diffusion
limited government
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Republicanism
19. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
15th Amendment
Mayflower Compact
Magna Carta
George Washington
20. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
cultural diffusion
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Factory System
1787
21. 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
Montesquieu
Republicanism
Separation of Powers
22. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
imports
Emancipation Proclamation
Thomas Jefferson
level of development
23. To officially approve.
English Bill of Rights
Latitude
Industrialization
ratify
24. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
15th Amendment
ziggurats
English Bill of Rights
Parliament
25. 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.
Migration
Republicanism
Subsistence economy
1787
26. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Panama Canal
Totalitarianism
1787
Infant Mortality
27. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
15th Amendment
Bill of Rights
subsistence agriculture
Fund. Order of Conn.
28. 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
Bill of Rights
1215
International Trade
29. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
McCullough v. Maryland
Republic
Bartering
14th Amendment
30. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Literacy Rate
Totalitarianism
Longitude
Limited Government
31. Belief in many gods
ziggurats
Constitutional Monarchy
13th Amendment
Polytheism
32. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Life Expectancy
14th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Inalienable/Unalienable
33. 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.
Mesoamerica civilizations
Absolute Monarchy
Checks and Balances
15th Amendment
34. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Civil War
Civil War
standard of living
Marbury v. Madison
35. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Canals
English Bill of Rights
Cotton Gin
Straits
36. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Industrialized
Indulgences
limited government
Articles of Confederation
37. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
standard of living
Protestant Reformation
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Mayflower Compact
38. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Self Determination
Federalist Papers
Immigration patterns
Industrial Revolution
39. King/queen who has unlimited power
Inalienable/Unalienable
Absolute Monarchy
John Locke
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
40. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Limited Government
The Senate
Parliament
1776
41. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
McCullough v. Maryland
secondary source
Magna Carta
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
42. All things that surround us.
English Bill of Rights
environment
amendment
House of Burgesses
43. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Industrial Revolution
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Middle Ages
Mayflower Compact
44. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Magna Carta
Federalist Papers
Federalist
Plessy v. Ferguson
45. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Anti - Federalist
suburban
English Bill of Rights
Commercial Agriculture
46. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
cottage industry
King George III
veto
standard of living
47. Average number of years people live
The Senate
Henry Ford
Scientific Revolution
Life Expectancy
48. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Industrial Revolution
Suez Canal
Migration
Bill of Rights
49. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Industrialization
Irrigation Canals
Silk Road
Declaration of Indepen.
50. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Atlantic Slave Trade
Popular Sovereignty
Civil War
1791
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