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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
15th Amendment
federalism
English Bill of Rights
1787-1789
2. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Printing Press
13th Amendment
Irrigation Canals
The Nullification Crisis
3. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Enlightenment
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Montesquieu
domestic
4. 1st written constitution
Adam Smith
Fund. Order of Conn.
13th Amendment
Latitude
5. Average income per person
Silk Road
Magna Carta
Bill of Rights
Per Capita Income
6. King/queen who has unlimited power
amendment
Absolute Monarchy
Republic
Marbury v. Madison
7. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Longitude
Straits
13th Amendment
95 Theses
8. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
McCullough v. Maryland
Republic
Popular Sovereignty
imports
9. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Canals
Magna Carta
Declaration of Indepen.
10. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
English Bill of Rights
Absolute Monarchy
Cathedrals
11. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Individual Rights
Republicanism
Totalitarianism
Industrial Revolution
12. Officially ended the American Revolution
Oligarchy
Demographics
Humanism
Treaty of Paris 1783
13. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Civil War 1861-1865
1863 Emancipation Pro
Thomas Jefferson
International Trade
14. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
Absolute Monarchy
Articles of Confederation
Federalism
15. President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
unalienable
Plessy v. Ferguson
English Bill of Rights
16. First organizing of 13 colonies.
trade
Civil War
Articles of Conf.
14th Amendment
17. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Civil War 1861-1865
Checks and Balances
95 Theses
Secularism
18. 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.
Scientific Revolution
Inalienable/Unalienable
Secularism
Free - enterprise economic system
19. Economic thinker that developed communism
Theocracy
Karl Marx
Secularism
The Senate
20. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Bill of Rights
Articles of Conf.
era
Life Expectancy
21. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Republicanism
Age of Reason
level of development
Industrialization
22. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1787-1789
Karl Marx
Magna Carta
The Nullification Crisis
23. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Direct Democracy
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Nationalism
Thomas Jefferson
24. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Communism/Command Economy
Plessy v. Ferguson
cottage industry
Direct Democracy
25. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Cathedrals
Cotton Gin
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
26. Established Judicial Review.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
colonists
Marbury v. Madison
Labor force
27. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Suez Canal
Inalienable/Unalienable
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
28. 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
colonists
Immigration patterns
Columbian Exchange
Plessy v. Ferguson
29. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
1791
Civil War 1861-1865
Cotton Gin
Emancipation Proclamation
30. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Federalism
suburban
veto
1215
31. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
George Washington
Atlantic Slave Trade
Cottage industry
Federalist Papers
32. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Factory System
Literacy Rate
Totalitarianism
bias
33. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Cuneiform
colonists
End of Reconstruction
Taxation
34. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Consent of the Governed
Andean civilization
Iron Curtain
15th Amendment
35. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
Silk Road
primary source
Crusaders
1787
36. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Limited Government
Secularism
Civil War
colonists
37. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
George Washington
Printing Press
Federalism
Declaration of Indepen.
38. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Capitalism/Market Economy
Individual Rights
ziggurats
Bill of Rights
39. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Thomas Jefferson
Crusaders
Republicanism
federalism
40. Movement of people from on country or location to another
subsistence agriculture
Migration
Canals
1863 Emancipation Pro
41. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Straits
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Monarchy
42. 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
Cotton Gin
English Bill of Rights
ratify
43. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Subsistence economy
1066
level of development
Age of Exploration & Colonization
44. Exchange of goods and services.
Labor force
Republicanism
trade
Totalitarianism
45. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Schism
Latitude
Totalitarianism
46. Involving other countries
Bartering
international
Subsistence economy
Per Capita Income
47. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Natural Barriers
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
48. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Representative Government
Federalism
Absolute Monarchy
rural
49. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
tariff
Mayflower Compact
Enlightenment
Limited Government
50. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
level of development
Magnetic Compass
Demographics
Monroe doctrine