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TAKS 10th Grade World History

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1. Complaints






2. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc






3. Having to do with one's own homeland






4. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade






5. 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






6. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)






7. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.






8. People who settle and live in a colony






9. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism






10. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea






11. To officially approve.






12. Officially ended the American Revolution






13. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon






14. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness






15. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.






16. Member of a country.






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






18. Flat - horizontal lines on a map






19. Right of groups of people to create their own nation






20. 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.






21. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation






22. Established Judicial Review.






23. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.






24. Exchange of goods and services.






25. Up and down - vertical lines on a map






26. Relating to the city - of or in a city.






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. These slow down movement/migration






30. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.






31. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas






32. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas






33. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.






34. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.






35. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education






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






37. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches






38. Economic thinker that developed communism






39. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.






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






41. Belief in many gods






42. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.






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.






44. Average income per person






45. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase






46. Belief in one god






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






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






49. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.






50. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast







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