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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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1. People who settle and live in a colony
Polytheism
Factory System
colonists
Declaration of Indepen.
2. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
Constitutional Monarchy
John Locke
Emancipation Proclamation
3. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
nullify
Emancipation Proclamation
Demographics
Secularism
4. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Mayflower Compact
unalienable
Articles of Confederation
5. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Civil War
Humanism
Adam Smith
6. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Printing Press
Canals
Hammurabi
Industrialized
7. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Karl Marx
Declaration of Indepen.
Land Ordinance of 1785
Standard of living
8. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Republic
George Washington
Theocracy
Separation of Powers .
9. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Checks and Balances
Bill of Rights
Atlantic Slave Trade
13th Amendment
10. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Industrial Revolution
Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
secondary source
11. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Irrigation Canals
Republic
ratify
Bartering
12. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact (1620)
colonists
Enlightenment
13. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Anti - Federalist
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Enlightenment
level of development
14. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Founding of Jamestown
Popular Sovereignty
Self Determination
Cotton Gin
15. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Magna Carta
imports
Straits
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
16. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Secularism
1791
Literacy Rate
17. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
English Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers
Federalist Papers
14th Amendment
18. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Republicanism
Inalienable/Unalienable
Representative Government
1215
19. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Mayflower Compact
Individual Rights
Adam Smith
Age of Exploration & Colonization
20. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Separation of Powers
urban
Famine
Justinian
21. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
13th Amendment
Imperialism
Unconstitutional
Crusaders
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.
Cotton Gin
Limited Government
Representative Government
Justinian
23. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Articles of Confederation
Totalitarianism
Bill of Rights
imports
24. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Limited Government
Articles of Confederation
suffrage
Founding of Jamestown
25. A written plan of government for the colonies created a weak league of 13 nearly independent states in 1777. The 1st Constitution of the U.S.
Individual Rights
Barriers
Industrialized
Articles of Confederation
26. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
1776
international
ratify
95 Theses
27. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
nullify
Infant Mortality
1791
15th Amendment
28. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
grievance
Montesquieu
Crusaders
ziggurats
29. Involving other countries
Abe Lincoln
international
Columbian Exchange
Longitude
30. 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.
Monotheism
Declaration of Indepen.
Free - enterprise economic system
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
31. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Enlightenment
The Nullification Crisis
Articles of Confederation
Popular Sovereignty
32. Government where the religious leader run the government
Industrial Revolution
Theocracy
14th Amendment
McCullough v. Maryland
33. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
Age of Exploration & Colonization
English Bill of Rights
Capitalism/Market Economy
34. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
domestic
Nullification Crisis
Industrialized
Individual Rights
35. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Parliament
1776
exports
Irrigation Canals
36. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Parliament
1776
Federalism
level of development
37. Average income per person
level of development
nullify
Per Capita Income
Cuneiform
38. Belief in one god
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Federalism
Monotheism
Capitalism/Market Economy
39. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Bill of Rights
Cathedrals
Canals
Polytheism
40. Pride in ones country
Marbury v. Madison
Nationalism
Mayflower Compact
exports
41. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Irrigation Canals
Fertile Crescent
Henry Ford
Silk Road
42. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
House of Burgesses
Declaration of Independence
14th Amendment
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
43. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Individual Rights
The Senate
Humanism
Crusaders
44. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
International Trade
Secularism
colonists
Infant Mortality
45. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Mayflower Compact
nullify
Natural Barriers
Monotheism
46. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Federalist Papers
Marbury v. Madison
13th Amendment
Unconstitutional
47. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
ratify
Declaration of Indepen.
Polytheism
English Bill of Rights
48. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Printing Press
English Bill of Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
49. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Columbian Exchange
citizen
ratify
50. 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.
Checks and Balances
14th Amendment
Justinian
primary source