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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An official change to a law or document of government.
ziggurats
Separation of Powers .
Communism/Command Economy
amendment
2. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Justinian
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Consent of the Governed
Federalist Papers
3. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Thomas Jefferson
Magnetic Compass
George Washington
Representative Democracy
4. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Separation of Powers .
Montesquieu
standard of living
Marbury v. Madison
5. Separate is not equal in public Schools
14th Amendment
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Panama Canal
6. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Checks and Balances
1787-1789
Representative Government
13th Amendment
7. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
1776
Federalism
Protestant Reformation
8. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
subsistence agriculture
1863 Emancipation Pro
George Washington
9. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
Individual Rights
Founding of Jamestown
Justinian
10. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Capitalism/Market Economy
Individual Rights
Adam Smith
George Washington
11. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Renaissance
The Nullification Crisis
Representative Democracy
level of development
12. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Direct Democracy
1066
14th Amendment
Ben Franklin
13. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Immigration patterns
exports
federalism
Silk Road
14. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Checks and Balances
Bill of Rights
imports
15. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Mayflower Compact
Emancipation Proclamation
Republic
Sub - Saharan Africa .
16. Who opposed the Constitution?
Humanism
citizen
Factory System
Anti - Federalists
17. Government where the religious leader run the government
Theocracy
cultural diffusion
Checks and Balances
The Senate
18. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Basic Needs
Free - enterprise economic system
Printing Press
Justinian
19. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Marbury v. Madison
Urban
era
(naval) blockade
20. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Magnetic Compass
Parliament
14th Amendment
ratify
21. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Industrialized
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
market - oriented agriculture
Immigration patterns
22. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
exports
Inalienable/Unalienable
cultural diffusion
environment
23. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Enlightenment
Articles of Conf.
level of development
Migration
24. President of the United States during the Civil War
Self Determination
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War
1776
25. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Enlightenment
Individual Rights
Magna Carta
Age of Exploration & Colonization
26. Curbed States' Rights
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Nationalism
John Locke
McCullough v. Maryland
27. A government that elects its leaders
colonists
Republic
Adam Smith
Literacy Rate
28. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
grievance
Montesquieu
Irrigation Canals
Articles of Confederation
29. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Treaty of Paris 1783
Direct Democracy
Monotheism
Fertile Crescent
30. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
U.S. Constitution
Oligarchy
Age of Exploration & Colonization
31. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Natural Barriers
Migration
Federalism
Brown v. Board of Edu.
32. People who settle and live in a colony
Force Bill
Federalist Papers
States Rights
colonists
33. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Representative Government
market - oriented agriculture
Mayflower Compact (1620)
trade
34. 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.
primary source
Articles of Conf.
rural
Panama Canal
35. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
1066
Monotheism
Founding of Jamestown
36. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Articles of Confederation
Subsistence agriculture
Abe Lincoln
Age of Reason
37. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
Canals
nullify
Crusaders
38. Mass production of food
Commercial Agriculture
Karl Marx
Consent of the Governed
Republicanism
39. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Humanism
Cottage industry
Republicanism
40. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Articles of Confederation
15th Amendment
bias
Cuneiform
41. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
McCullough v. Maryland
Federalist
1215
1863 Emancipation Pro
42. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Fertile Crescent
Famine
43. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
(naval) blockade
1787-1789
Individual Rights
44. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Industrial Revolution
Bill of Rights
Cuneiform
45. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Traditional economy
Anti - Federalists
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
15th Amendment
46. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Adam Smith
Subsistence economy
Nationalism
Individual Rights
47. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Bill of Rights
Adam Smith
Taxation
Mayflower Compact
48. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Civil War
95 Theses
International Trade
Checks and Balances
49. Exchange of goods and services.
Straits of Hormuz
Federalist Papers
trade
Federalist
50. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Representative Government
Representative democracy
citizen
Longitude