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TAKS 10th Grade World History

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






2. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.






3. Small - scale production requiring little capital.






4. A government that elects its leaders






5. Banned slavery throughout the nation.






6. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.






7. Exchange of goods and services.






8. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.






9. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.






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






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






12. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.






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






14. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.






15. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code






16. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece






17. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.






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






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






20. 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.






21. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.






22. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.






23. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code






24. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?






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






26. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot






27. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)






28. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves






29. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens






30. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas






31. Limited the power of the King in 1215






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






33. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.






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






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






36. 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.






37. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)






38. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.






39. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights






40. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.






41. Percent of people in a country that can read and write






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






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






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






45. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.






46. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.






47. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation






48. King of England during the American Revolution.






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






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







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