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TAKS 10th Grade World History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Relating to the city - of or in a city.






2. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.






3. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over






4. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.






5. Mass production of food






6. First organizing of 13 colonies.






7. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.






8. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches






9. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property






10. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code






11. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.






12. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain






13. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies






14. A government that elects its leaders






15. Battle of Hastings - centralized government






16. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North






17. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth






18. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people






19. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.






20. Involving other countries






21. Curbed States' Rights






22. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas






23. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region






24. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'






25. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.






26. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled






27. An official change to a law or document of government.






28. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe






29. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code






30. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.






31. Split in the church






32. 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.






33. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.






34. King of England during the American Revolution.






35. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.






36. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.






37. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.






38. 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.






39. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia






40. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.






41. To officially approve.






42. Pride in ones country






43. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)






44. 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






45. Average number of children that die by the age of 5






46. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws






47. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government






48. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers






49. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government






50. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.







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