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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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1. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Articles of Conf.
Separation of Powers .
Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
2. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Civil War 1861-1865
Federalism
1863 Emancipation Pro
Mayflower Compact
3. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Adam Smith
international
cottage industry
Articles of Confederation
4. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Articles of Confederation
Hammurabi
Immigration patterns
5. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Separation of Powers .
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Urban
Federalism
6. 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.
Force Bill
Secularism
Indulgences
primary source
7. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
nullify
Constitutional Monarchy
Declaration of Indepen.
Straits of Hormuz
8. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Printing Press
Iron Curtain
Articles of Conf.
international
9. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Canals
Federalism
Mayflower Compact
rural
10. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Articles of Confederation
Monroe doctrine
exports
Ben Franklin
11. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
suburban
Anti - Federalist
Secularism
12. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Industrialized
Humanism
Representative democracy
Federalist
13. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Individual Rights
Republicanism
Henry Ford
Nationalism
14. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Industrial Revolution
Civil War 1861-1865
imports
Emancipation Proclamation
15. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
95 Theses
Barriers
George Washington
14th Amendment
16. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Humanism
Barriers
Bill of Rights
Limited Government
17. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Constitutional Conv.
Migration
Republic
Protestant Reformation
18. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Magna Carta
colonists
Totalitarianism
Theocracy
19. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
secondary source
Montesquieu
Thomas Jefferson
Longitude
20. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abe Lincoln
primary source
Age of Reason
Sub - Saharan Africa .
21. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
Secularism
95 Theses
Middle Ages
22. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Basic Needs
Founding of Jamestown
ratify
Bill of Rights
23. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Federalism
Limited Government
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Subsistence agriculture
24. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Articles of Conf.
tariff
Scientific Revolution
Latitude
25. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
14th Amendment
Republic
tariff
amendment
26. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Marbury v. Madison
Iron Curtain
14th Amendment
Life Expectancy
27. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Mesoamerica civilizations
citizen
Land Ordinance of 1785
Articles of Confederation
28. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
era
Factory System
Commercial Agriculture
29. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Declaration of Indepen.
Separation of Powers
Civil War
House of Burgesses
30. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Individual Rights
subsistence agriculture
Declaration of Indepen.
George Washington
31. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Age of Reason
imports
Cuneiform
unalienable
32. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
1791
Magna Carta
Subsistence agriculture
Limited Government
33. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
bias
Barriers
exports
Middle Ages
34. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Traditional economy
Enlightenment
subsistence agriculture
13th Amendment
35. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Federalist
English Bill of Rights
Magnetic Compass
John Locke
36. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
14th Amendment
urban
English Bill of Rights
(naval) blockade
37. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
suburban
Articles of Conf.
Thomas Jefferson
Immigration patterns
38. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
John Locke
1787
Atlantic Slave Trade
Nationalism
39. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
level of development
Republicanism
Individual Rights
Urban
40. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
Civil War 1861-1865
Migration
Abraham Lincoln
41. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
McCullough v. Maryland
Anti - Federalists
level of development
Subsistence economy
42. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Civil War
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Andean civilization
Representative Democracy
43. 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.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Free - enterprise economic system
Middle Ages
Barriers
44. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Cotton Gin
Longitude
Indulgences
English Bill of Rights
45. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
Humanism
Subsistence economy
market - oriented agriculture
46. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Popular Sovereignty
Scientific Revolution
End of Reconstruction
Plessy v. Ferguson
47. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Emancipation Proclamation
subsistence agriculture
Cotton Gin
English Bill of Rights
48. 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.
Protestant Reformation
Capitalism/Market Economy
Civil War
Force Bill
49. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Infant Mortality
Schism
Land Ordinance of 1785
Longitude
50. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
cultural diffusion
Declaration of Independence
Secularism
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