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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
George Washington
Bill of Rights
Federalist Papers
Immigration patterns
2. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
George Washington
Literacy Rate
Abe Lincoln
Unconstitutional
3. A government that elects its leaders
Adam Smith
Republic
Basic Needs
cultural diffusion
4. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
nullify
Civil War 1861-1865
Ben Franklin
Treaty of Paris 1783
5. Government where the religious leader run the government
Canals
House of Burgesses
grievance
Theocracy
6. 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.
1787
Inalienable/Unalienable
Cottage industry
Civil War 1861-1865
7. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Articles of Confederation
Demographics
Schism
14th Amendment
8. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
suffrage
Winston Churchill
Marbury v. Madison
Industrial Revolution
9. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Indulgences
Longitude
King George III
limited government
10. 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.
Force Bill
Anti - Federalists
Marbury v. Madison
Sub - Saharan Africa .
11. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Adam Smith
Longitude
Constitutional Monarchy
Popular Sovereignty
12. 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 Independence
Emancipation Proclamation
Inalienable/Unalienable
Mesoamerica civilizations
13. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Individual Rights
Articles of Confederation
subsistence agriculture
English Bill of Rights
14. Complaints
Federalism
grievance
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
international
15. 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
Natural Barriers
95 Theses
federalism
Columbian Exchange
16. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
Fund. Order of Conn.
Adam Smith
17. This is also referred to as a city
Protestant Reformation
Mayflower Compact
Urban
Treaty of Paris 1783
18. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
End of Reconstruction
Magna Carta
Cotton Gin
Industrial Revolution
19. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Articles of Confederation
Montesquieu
bias
trade
20. 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.
Andean civilization
primary source
Capitalism/Market Economy
Atlantic Slave Trade
21. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
Per Capita Income
veto
Emancipation Proclamation
22. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
era
English Bill of Rights
1791
Abraham Lincoln
23. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Longitude
Thomas Jefferson
Separation of Powers
Demographics
24. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Renaissance
veto
exports
suffrage
25. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Civil War 1861-1865
1066
Subsistence agriculture
1863 Emancipation Pro
26. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Cathedrals
McCullough v. Maryland
Capitalism/Market Economy
Limited Government
27. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
amendment
Constitutional Monarchy
Separation of Powers
28. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
Bill of Rights
Middle Ages
1776
29. Period in Europe that began after the fall of the Roman Empire Characterized by feudalism - Roman Catholic Church was the unifier of the age with more power than Kings/Lords
George Washington
Middle Ages
Industrialization
Humanism
30. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
standard of living
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Magnetic Compass
Henry Ford
31. Average income per person
Per Capita Income
Enlightenment
Enlightenment
Federalism
32. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Crusaders
Free - enterprise economic system
Treaty of Paris 1783
Totalitarianism
33. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Montesquieu
Marbury v. Madison
Civil War
Nationalism
34. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Representative Democracy
Representative Government
Thomas Jefferson
Federalism
35. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
exports
Factory System
English Bill of Rights
Civil War
36. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
ziggurats
amendment
Age of Exploration & Colonization
trade
37. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
13th Amendment
level of development
Brown v. Board of Edu.
38. Involving other countries
Age of Exploration & Colonization
international
Unconstitutional
Industrial Revolution
39. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
The Nullification Crisis
Federalist Papers
1787-1789
40. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Magna Carta
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Individual Rights
primary source
41. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Magnetic Compass
Communism/Command Economy
Atlantic Slave Trade
42. People who settle and live in a colony
Renaissance
Totalitarianism
colonists
era
43. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Separation of Powers .
Cuneiform
Industrial Revolution
Republicanism
44. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
15th Amendment
Constitutional Conv.
subsistence agriculture
45. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Self Determination
bias
Declaration of Indepen.
George Washington
46. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
Monotheism
Republic
Suez Canal
47. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
era
Industrialized
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Civil War 1861-1865
48. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Straits of Hormuz
95 Theses
Checks and Balances
Latitude
49. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Republic
Renaissance
Age of Reason
1776
50. 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.
15th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
Age of Exploration & Colonization
cottage industry