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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Justinian
Totalitarianism
Scientific Revolution
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
2. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Thomas Jefferson
Montesquieu
Plessy v. Ferguson
3. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Bill of Rights
federalism
Longitude
subsistence agriculture
4. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Industrialized
English Bill of Rights
George Washington
Absolute Monarchy
5. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Totalitarianism
Iron Curtain
John Locke
Middle Ages
6. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Columbian Exchange
Civil War 1861-1865
Individual Rights
Limited Government
7. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Montesquieu
Self Determination
Mayflower Compact
8. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Scientific Revolution
veto
Constitutional Monarchy
1791
9. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Articles of Confederation
Life Expectancy
Land Ordinance of 1785
Henry Ford
10. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
15th Amendment
Andean civilization
14th Amendment
Declaration of Indepen.
11. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Constitutional Monarchy
13th Amendment
Taxation
Republic
12. President of the United States during the Civil War
Columbian Exchange
Federalist Papers
Abraham Lincoln
limited government
13. Movement of people from on country or location to another
House of Burgesses
Totalitarianism
Migration
Secularism
14. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Literacy Rate
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
The Senate
Subsistence economy
15. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
George Washington
level of development
Scientific Revolution
Communism/Command Economy
16. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
veto
Absolute Monarchy
Republic
17. These slow down movement/migration
Longitude
Migration
Barriers
Fertile Crescent
18. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Representative Government
Bubonic Plague
The Nullification Crisis
End of Reconstruction
19. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Ben Franklin
Constitutional Monarchy
Republicanism
20. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
The Senate
House of Burgesses
Andean civilization
21. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Silk Road
Popular Sovereignty
Infant Mortality
Age of Reason
22. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Magnetic Compass
Federalist Papers
Migration
Fertile Crescent
23. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
International Trade
End of Reconstruction
Immigration patterns
McCullough v. Maryland
24. 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
Civil War
Declaration of Independence
Middle Ages
standard of living
25. Established Judicial Review.
15th Amendment
Marbury v. Madison
Declaration of Indepen.
Hammurabi
26. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Force Bill
International Trade
Factory System
Thomas Jefferson
27. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
colonists
Totalitarianism
Abraham Lincoln
28. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
market - oriented agriculture
Middle Ages
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
29. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Individual Rights
Popular Sovereignty
Monotheism
urban
30. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Separation of Powers .
Straits of Hormuz
Civil War
Marbury v. Madison
31. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Protestant Reformation
Indulgences
Longitude
Straits
32. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Absolute Monarchy
Popular Sovereignty
Checks and Balances
Barriers
33. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Crusaders
Treaty of Paris 1783
Brown v. Board of Edu.
14th Amendment
34. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
era
Monroe doctrine
George Washington
Representative democracy
35. All things that surround us.
environment
Checks and Balances
McCullough v. Maryland
Hammurabi
36. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Scientific Revolution
Limited Government
era
market - oriented agriculture
37. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Federalism
Montesquieu
Industrial Revolution
U.S. Constitution
38. Officially ended the American Revolution
suburban
Treaty of Paris 1783
Migration
Checks and Balances
39. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
English Bill of Rights
tariff
Justinian
Thomas Jefferson
40. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Articles of Confederation
Columbian Exchange
Suez Canal
Monroe doctrine
41. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Polytheism
urban
Bill of Rights
42. People who settle and live in a colony
1863 Emancipation Pro
colonists
Mayflower Compact (1620)
bias
43. Pride in ones country
Thomas Jefferson
Draco
Nationalism
Natural Barriers
44. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
trade
The Senate
Emancipation Proclamation
Separation of Powers
45. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Anti - Federalist
Straits of Hormuz
Self Determination
suburban
46. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Hammurabi
rural
federalism
limited government
47. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Winston Churchill
Karl Marx
Popular Sovereignty
Longitude
48. Involving other countries
Cotton Gin
End of Reconstruction
international
secondary source
49. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
domestic
English Bill of Rights
cultural diffusion
Renaissance
50. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
ziggurats
Limited Government
Life Expectancy