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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Officially ended the American Revolution
Civil War 1861-1865
Winston Churchill
Treaty of Paris 1783
veto
2. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Monroe doctrine
1776
Self Determination
English Bill of Rights
3. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Individual Rights
14th Amendment
level of development
Barriers
4. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Labor force
Industrial Revolution
Mayflower Compact
Hammurabi
5. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
15th Amendment
Theocracy
standard of living
6. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
13th Amendment
Declaration of Indepen.
Commercial Agriculture
15th Amendment
7. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Natural Barriers
Panama Canal
market - oriented agriculture
cultural diffusion
8. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Standard of living
Imperialism
Bubonic Plague
Silk Road
9. Exchange of goods and services.
Anti - Federalists
14th Amendment
Per Capita Income
trade
10. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
Commercial Agriculture
Famine
Magna Carta
11. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Separation of Powers
Self Determination
Abraham Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
12. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
1215
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Direct Democracy
Subsistence economy
13. King/queen who has unlimited power
Crusaders
Abraham Lincoln
Absolute Monarchy
Magna Carta
14. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Adam Smith
amendment
Factory System
15. Economic thinker that developed communism
Karl Marx
market - oriented agriculture
Barriers
Magna Carta
16. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Urban
Humanism
suffrage
15th Amendment
17. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Industrialization
Limited Government
Marbury v. Madison
U.S. Constitution
18. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
federalism
Industrialization
colonists
Founding of Jamestown
19. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Protestant Reformation
14th Amendment
Federalism
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
20. Separate is not equal in public Schools
15th Amendment
Irrigation Canals
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Monotheism
21. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Henry Ford
Articles of Confederation
Direct Democracy
Canals
22. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
subsistence agriculture
The Nullification Crisis
Winston Churchill
Mesoamerica civilizations
23. Tax on imports and exports.
Separation of Powers .
ratify
14th Amendment
tariff
24. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
tariff
Nullification Crisis
Articles of Confederation
25. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Atlantic Slave Trade
bias
Bill of Rights
Civil War 1861-1865
26. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Representative democracy
Literacy Rate
Anti - Federalists
Civil War
27. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Treaty of Paris 1783
1776
Monotheism
States Rights
28. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Cuneiform
House of Burgesses
limited government
Scientific Revolution
29. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Justinian
Articles of Confederation
Abraham Lincoln
Monotheism
30. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Thomas Jefferson
15th Amendment
Subsistence agriculture
Declaration of Indepen.
31. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
colonists
English Bill of Rights
Thomas Jefferson
imports
32. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Cotton Gin
Urban
Plessy v. Ferguson
Scientific Revolution
33. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Cathedrals
Civil War
Industrialized
English Bill of Rights
34. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Declaration of Independence
Life Expectancy
Bartering
Emancipation Proclamation
35. Split in the church
rural
Schism
Representative Government
The Senate
36. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Industrialization
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Age of Reason
37. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abe Lincoln
Articles of Confederation
Thomas Jefferson
Totalitarianism
38. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
95 Theses
Latitude
Straits
Bill of Rights
39. Opposed to the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government and not enough to the states. They also wanted individual rights protected
Indulgences
Cuneiform
Anti - Federalist
Limited Government
40. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
House of Burgesses
Ben Franklin
Separation of Powers .
unalienable
41. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
veto
Per Capita Income
Printing Press
Representative Government
42. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.
Bill of Rights
veto
Secularism
1787
43. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
exports
Individual Rights
ziggurats
44. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
1863 Emancipation Pro
Barriers
Anti - Federalists
45. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
Printing Press
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Hammurabi
46. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Checks and Balances
suburban
1787-1789
ratify
47. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Industrial Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Cottage industry
Thomas Jefferson
48. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
citizen
grievance
Traditional economy
Theocracy
49. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
international
colonists
Republic
50. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
imports
Suez Canal
international
Enlightenment