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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Average number of years people live
Atlantic Slave Trade
McCullough v. Maryland
Life Expectancy
Checks and Balances
2. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Separation of Powers .
Magna Carta
Standard of living
Imperialism
3. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Nullification Crisis
Infant Mortality
Limited Government
McCullough v. Maryland
4. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Monotheism
Draco
Abe Lincoln
Straits
5. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Winston Churchill
1787-1789
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Direct Democracy
6. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Crusaders
citizen
Republicanism
7. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
rural
1066
Representative Democracy
Urban
8. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
domestic
Representative democracy
Checks and Balances
Cotton Gin
9. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Taxation
Iron Curtain
trade
Scientific Revolution
10. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
Immigration patterns
Limited Government
veto
11. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Traditional economy
Age of Exploration & Colonization
ziggurats
Brown v. Board of Edu.
12. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
grievance
limited government
Printing Press
Per Capita Income
13. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
suffrage
subsistence agriculture
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
rural
14. 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.
Cottage industry
ratify
Checks and Balances
Schism
15. Government where the religious leader run the government
suffrage
Theocracy
Imperialism
Checks and Balances
16. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
14th Amendment
Cuneiform
Free - enterprise economic system
Emancipation Proclamation
17. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
English Bill of Rights
1791
primary source
Industrial Revolution
18. Curbed States' Rights
Limited Government
McCullough v. Maryland
Thomas Jefferson
Absolute Monarchy
19. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
era
Standard of living
Communism/Command Economy
20. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Individual Rights
Secularism
Republicanism
Fertile Crescent
21. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Atlantic Slave Trade
trade
Industrial Revolution
George Washington
22. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Separation of Powers .
Articles of Conf.
Plessy v. Ferguson
23. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Magnetic Compass
Renaissance
Monroe doctrine
tariff
24. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Polytheism
McCullough v. Maryland
Unconstitutional
Plessy v. Ferguson
25. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Straits of Hormuz
Capitalism/Market Economy
Thomas Jefferson
international
26. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
Republic
Iron Curtain
trade
Communism/Command Economy
27. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Fund. Order of Conn.
cultural diffusion
Traditional economy
Montesquieu
28. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
1787-1789
Federalist Papers
Enlightenment
Checks and Balances
29. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Force Bill
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Basic Needs
Parliament
30. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
suburban
federalism
Nullification Crisis
urban
31. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Latitude
Basic Needs
Andean civilization
Articles of Confederation
32. Opposed to the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government and not enough to the states. They also wanted individual rights protected
ziggurats
Protestant Reformation
Anti - Federalist
veto
33. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
Representative Government
Barriers
McCullough v. Maryland
34. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Capitalism/Market Economy
Free - enterprise economic system
Articles of Confederation
Cuneiform
35. Separate is not equal in public Schools
1787-1789
English Bill of Rights
Literacy Rate
Brown v. Board of Edu.
36. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Atlantic Slave Trade
Cotton Gin
Plessy v. Ferguson
Cathedrals
37. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
secondary source
Parliament
bias
38. 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.
Free - enterprise economic system
Imperialism
subsistence agriculture
Age of Reason
39. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Thomas Jefferson
King George III
Free - enterprise economic system
Subsistence agriculture
40. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
colonists
(naval) blockade
Humanism
Suez Canal
41. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Magnetic Compass
Per Capita Income
suburban
international
42. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Self Determination
Plessy v. Ferguson
Thomas Jefferson
Enlightenment
43. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Representative Government
Limited Government
Middle Ages
Founding of Jamestown
44. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
1776
limited government
Crusaders
Magna Carta
45. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
Emancipation Proclamation
End of Reconstruction
Checks and Balances
46. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Federalism
Unconstitutional
End of Reconstruction
Traditional economy
47. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
13th Amendment
1776
level of development
Secularism
48. Movement of people from on country or location to another
14th Amendment
Migration
Industrialized
Civil War
49. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
States Rights
subsistence agriculture
domestic
50. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
1215
market - oriented agriculture
States Rights
Emancipation Proclamation