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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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1. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Per Capita Income
Middle Ages
Constitutional Conv.
Unconstitutional
2. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Nationalism
Henry Ford
urban
Straits of Hormuz
3. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Thomas Jefferson
secondary source
1787
Popular Sovereignty
4. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
suburban
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Emancipation Proclamation
Mayflower Compact
5. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Anti - Federalists
Fund. Order of Conn.
Separation of Powers .
Humanism
6. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
exports
Montesquieu
Capitalism/Market Economy
7. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Abraham Lincoln
Articles of Confederation
Capitalism/Market Economy
George Washington
8. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Montesquieu
George Washington
citizen
Iron Curtain
9. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
federalism
1066
Scientific Revolution
Plessy v. Ferguson
10. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Hammurabi
George Washington
Magna Carta
Iron Curtain
11. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Per Capita Income
95 Theses
market - oriented agriculture
Fertile Crescent
12. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Barriers
Anti - Federalist
English Bill of Rights
Migration
13. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
Commercial Agriculture
Columbian Exchange
Straits
Separation of Powers .
14. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Winston Churchill
Federalist Papers
Age of Reason
Constitutional Monarchy
15. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Enlightenment
environment
Articles of Confederation
16. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Imperialism
international
Declaration of Indepen.
imports
17. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
domestic
Force Bill
Representative Democracy
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
18. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Cotton Gin
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Oligarchy
19. King/queen who has unlimited power
trade
Schism
Absolute Monarchy
The Senate
20. Established Judicial Review.
ziggurats
Representative Democracy
Marbury v. Madison
George Washington
21. Exchange of goods and services.
rural
1066
trade
14th Amendment
22. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
John Locke
Enlightenment
Polytheism
domestic
23. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
Draco
exports
Silk Road
environment
24. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
Silk Road
Civil War
Communism/Command Economy
25. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
The Senate
imports
Federalist Papers
Civil War
26. Mass production of food
Draco
Industrialization
The Nullification Crisis
Commercial Agriculture
27. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
cottage industry
Mesoamerica civilizations
1863 Emancipation Pro
States Rights
28. Curbed States' Rights
Oligarchy
Magna Carta
McCullough v. Maryland
13th Amendment
29. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Hammurabi
Montesquieu
Thomas Jefferson
Separation of Powers
30. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Iron Curtain
Magna Carta
era
Republic
31. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
Longitude
Founding of Jamestown
Labor force
32. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Checks and Balances
English Bill of Rights
Silk Road
Schism
33. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Natural Barriers
Treaty of Paris 1783
States Rights
(naval) blockade
34. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
exports
Checks and Balances
Articles of Confederation
Mesoamerica civilizations
35. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Popular Sovereignty
15th Amendment
Enlightenment
Ben Franklin
36. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Straits
Atlantic Slave Trade
Federalism
suffrage
37. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
Declaration of Indepen.
Checks and Balances
Sub - Saharan Africa .
bias
38. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Ben Franklin
Parliament
urban
Straits
39. This is also referred to as a city
Montesquieu
Fertile Crescent
Urban
citizen
40. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Justinian
Republic
International Trade
Federalist Papers
41. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Bill of Rights
level of development
Migration
Mayflower Compact
42. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
13th Amendment
Representative Democracy
Republic
ratify
43. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Commercial Agriculture
Renaissance
15th Amendment
Land Ordinance of 1785
44. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Columbian Exchange
Absolute Monarchy
exports
Land Ordinance of 1785
45. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Industrialization
Land Ordinance of 1785
Thomas Jefferson
Cottage industry
46. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
limited government
Federalism
secondary source
Humanism
47. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
George Washington
Plessy v. Ferguson
Panama Canal
Henry Ford
48. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
amendment
Checks and Balances
Popular Sovereignty
49. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
rural
Federalism
Bubonic Plague
Popular Sovereignty
50. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Representative democracy
exports
Montesquieu
End of Reconstruction
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