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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Infant Mortality
Mesoamerica civilizations
Basic Needs
Traditional economy
2. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
era
13th Amendment
Mayflower Compact
Fertile Crescent
3. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
1776
Limited Government
Force Bill
veto
4. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Industrial Revolution
Marbury v. Madison
Individual Rights
veto
5. An official change to a law or document of government.
amendment
Factory System
level of development
Civil War 1861-1865
6. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
Industrialized
Schism
Hammurabi
7. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Migration
Canals
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
8. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
Republicanism
bias
Magna Carta
9. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Protestant Reformation
Bill of Rights
Checks and Balances
Demographics
10. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
George Washington
Imperialism
Parliament
Bill of Rights
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.
Mesoamerica civilizations
Republicanism
Famine
Winston Churchill
12. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
citizen
Adam Smith
Direct Democracy
Hammurabi
13. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
primary source
Declaration of Indepen.
Federalism
Suez Canal
14. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Land Ordinance of 1785
Cuneiform
Free - enterprise economic system
ziggurats
15. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Bill of Rights
Civil War
Civil War 1861-1865
Indulgences
16. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
limited government
Cathedrals
15th Amendment
Republicanism
17. People who settle and live in a colony
The Nullification Crisis
Abraham Lincoln
colonists
cultural diffusion
18. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
John Locke
Straits of Hormuz
Theocracy
19. 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
Middle Ages
Abraham Lincoln
1066
trade
20. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
States Rights
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Federalism
21. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Republicanism
15th Amendment
Federalism
Civil War 1861-1865
22. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Imperialism
unalienable
Basic Needs
English Bill of Rights
23. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Constitutional Monarchy
House of Burgesses
Famine
24. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Famine
Land Ordinance of 1785
federalism
International Trade
25. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Indulgences
Federalist
Draco
Hammurabi
26. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
John Locke
Secularism
Magnetic Compass
Constitutional Conv.
27. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Andean civilization
Standard of living
trade
Monroe doctrine
28. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Age of Reason
Literacy Rate
Articles of Confederation
Canals
29. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Draco
Magna Carta
Irrigation Canals
Separation of Powers
30. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Limited Government
Consent of the Governed
Commercial Agriculture
31. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Irrigation Canals
Limited Government
citizen
Cathedrals
32. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Monroe doctrine
ziggurats
Limited Government
1776
33. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Popular Sovereignty
George Washington
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Absolute Monarchy
34. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Mesoamerica civilizations
13th Amendment
imports
Marbury v. Madison
35. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Commercial Agriculture
14th Amendment
U.S. Constitution
36. Mass production of food
Mayflower Compact
bias
Commercial Agriculture
Civil War
37. Member of a country.
citizen
Taxation
Magna Carta
Columbian Exchange
38. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Free - enterprise economic system
Popular Sovereignty
Nullification Crisis
Mayflower Compact
39. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Justinian
Plessy v. Ferguson
40. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Winston Churchill
Republic
Separation of Powers .
Totalitarianism
41. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
standard of living
Standard of living
Cuneiform
Adam Smith
42. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Crusaders
Infant Mortality
Totalitarianism
Taxation
43. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Indulgences
unalienable
suffrage
44. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
imports
Per Capita Income
Standard of living
House of Burgesses
45. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Straits
1863 Emancipation Pro
Industrialized
46. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Limited Government
Standard of living
Consent of the Governed
14th Amendment
47. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Thomas Jefferson
Abe Lincoln
Inalienable/Unalienable
Scientific Revolution
48. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
ziggurats
Cuneiform
English Bill of Rights
13th Amendment
49. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Subsistence economy
1863 Emancipation Pro
Taxation
Civil War 1861-1865
50. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Life Expectancy
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Plessy v. Ferguson
Straits of Hormuz