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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
1215
Articles of Confederation
Panama Canal
Mesoamerica civilizations
2. People who settle and live in a colony
1863 Emancipation Pro
colonists
Montesquieu
Marbury v. Madison
3. Limited the power of the King in 1215
15th Amendment
Magna Carta
international
Mesoamerica civilizations
4. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
primary source
Middle Ages
15th Amendment
era
5. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Indulgences
Inalienable/Unalienable
The Nullification Crisis
Humanism
6. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Cathedrals
Plessy v. Ferguson
International Trade
Winston Churchill
7. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Totalitarianism
Marbury v. Madison
Longitude
Migration
8. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Plessy v. Ferguson
secondary source
Famine
era
9. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Per Capita Income
Irrigation Canals
Karl Marx
Articles of Confederation
10. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Silk Road
Thomas Jefferson
11. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Subsistence agriculture
Labor force
(naval) blockade
Declaration of Indepen.
12. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
14th Amendment
Federalism
Polytheism
Standard of living
13. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
End of Reconstruction
amendment
U.S. Constitution
Unconstitutional
14. President of the United States during the Civil War
1066
Abraham Lincoln
Protestant Reformation
1776
15. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Communism/Command Economy
Indulgences
King George III
Magna Carta
16. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
standard of living
Montesquieu
Articles of Conf.
Fund. Order of Conn.
17. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Republicanism
Civil War 1861-1865
International Trade
Industrial Revolution
18. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Limited Government
Unconstitutional
standard of living
Civil War
19. These slow down movement/migration
Representative Democracy
Bartering
international
Barriers
20. Modern Constitution
Standard of living
U.S. Constitution
House of Burgesses
Hammurabi
21. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Magnetic Compass
Mayflower Compact
Separation of Powers
1787-1789
22. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Totalitarianism
King George III
1791
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
23. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Per Capita Income
unalienable
Marbury v. Madison
Constitutional Conv.
24. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Republicanism
Parliament
English Bill of Rights
Marbury v. Madison
25. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
bias
subsistence agriculture
Natural Barriers
Magna Carta
26. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
trade
Checks and Balances
Straits
27. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Communism/Command Economy
14th Amendment
Adam Smith
Mayflower Compact
28. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Anti - Federalists
Secularism
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Cottage industry
29. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Bill of Rights
ziggurats
Marbury v. Madison
Infant Mortality
30. To officially approve.
International Trade
Monroe doctrine
Abraham Lincoln
ratify
31. Pride in ones country
Longitude
House of Burgesses
Nationalism
Sub - Saharan Africa .
32. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Commercial Agriculture
Scientific Revolution
Silk Road
secondary source
33. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Secularism
federalism
English Bill of Rights
Scientific Revolution
34. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Constitutional Monarchy
George Washington
trade
35. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Thomas Jefferson
Capitalism/Market Economy
Printing Press
Founding of Jamestown
36. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
secondary source
Natural Barriers
Crusaders
Andean civilization
37. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Abraham Lincoln
Immigration patterns
Direct Democracy
38. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
Checks and Balances
Free - enterprise economic system
1791
39. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
standard of living
International Trade
Checks and Balances
Declaration of Independence
40. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Civil War
Famine
McCullough v. Maryland
Suez Canal
41. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
House of Burgesses
subsistence agriculture
Labor force
Enlightenment
42. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Industrialized
Per Capita Income
The Nullification Crisis
Natural Barriers
43. 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
Atlantic Slave Trade
Federalism
imports
Middle Ages
44. King of England during the American Revolution.
King George III
Oligarchy
Self Determination
primary source
45. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Consent of the Governed
Separation of Powers .
Justinian
Industrial Revolution
46. Economic thinker that developed communism
Karl Marx
Industrial Revolution
federalism
Monroe doctrine
47. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Constitutional Monarchy
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
48. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Andean civilization
Standard of living
Separation of Powers .
Constitutional Conv.
49. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Federalist
Capitalism/Market Economy
Subsistence economy
(naval) blockade
50. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
95 Theses
15th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Marbury v. Madison