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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
exports
Labor force
Theocracy
Monroe doctrine
2. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Civil War
domestic
Abe Lincoln
ratify
3. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Anti - Federalist
Representative Democracy
Winston Churchill
4. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
Cathedrals
Bartering
House of Burgesses
5. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Adam Smith
Printing Press
George Washington
Fertile Crescent
6. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Representative Government
Schism
Cathedrals
Secularism
7. 1st written constitution
Justinian
Constitutional Conv.
suffrage
Fund. Order of Conn.
8. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Republicanism
Infant Mortality
Magnetic Compass
International Trade
9. Exchange of goods and services.
citizen
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Enlightenment
trade
10. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
13th Amendment
amendment
nullify
11. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Plessy v. Ferguson
Treaty of Paris 1783
15th Amendment
Mayflower Compact (1620)
12. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Checks and Balances
Age of Reason
Industrialization
suburban
13. 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
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Per Capita Income
Bill of Rights
14. Involving other countries
imports
Middle Ages
international
Representative democracy
15. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Andean civilization
unalienable
Abe Lincoln
16. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Crusaders
Imperialism
Enlightenment
17. Mass production of food
Thomas Jefferson
Commercial Agriculture
Monotheism
Mayflower Compact
18. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Schism
Individual Rights
Per Capita Income
Longitude
19. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Monotheism
Irrigation Canals
14th Amendment
Montesquieu
20. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Printing Press
Inalienable/Unalienable
English Bill of Rights
international
21. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Protestant Reformation
Civil War 1861-1865
Capitalism/Market Economy
Abe Lincoln
22. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
Thomas Jefferson
Limited Government
Abraham Lincoln
23. President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Ben Franklin
Constitutional Monarchy
Silk Road
24. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Enlightenment
Humanism
Federalist Papers
grievance
25. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Consent of the Governed
ratify
standard of living
Marbury v. Madison
26. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Subsistence agriculture
Per Capita Income
Imperialism
States Rights
27. This is also referred to as a city
14th Amendment
George Washington
Urban
Oligarchy
28. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
(naval) blockade
Articles of Confederation
suburban
Age of Reason
29. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Straits
Representative democracy
Mayflower Compact
Indulgences
30. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Demographics
Labor force
environment
grievance
31. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Popular Sovereignty
14th Amendment
Marbury v. Madison
32. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
1776
Traditional economy
Representative democracy
Emancipation Proclamation
33. Economic thinker that developed communism
Karl Marx
urban
Mesoamerica civilizations
cultural diffusion
34. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
15th Amendment
ziggurats
Traditional economy
market - oriented agriculture
35. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
Totalitarianism
Federalism
1066
36. To officially approve.
ratify
Limited Government
Migration
Plessy v. Ferguson
37. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Mayflower Compact
English Bill of Rights
ziggurats
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
38. 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.
1787
Anti - Federalist
Suez Canal
13th Amendment
39. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
English Bill of Rights
Direct Democracy
Mayflower Compact (1620)
King George III
40. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Individual Rights
House of Burgesses
Representative democracy
urban
41. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Karl Marx
market - oriented agriculture
level of development
Industrialization
42. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Demographics
Communism/Command Economy
The Senate
era
43. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
English Bill of Rights
Latitude
Monotheism
Emancipation Proclamation
44. All things that surround us.
Industrial Revolution
Oligarchy
environment
International Trade
45. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Infant Mortality
Cotton Gin
Declaration of Indepen.
international
46. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
George Washington
Karl Marx
Silk Road
Cuneiform
47. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Monroe doctrine
Representative Government
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Checks and Balances
48. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Checks and Balances
The Senate
subsistence agriculture
Life Expectancy
49. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
limited government
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Theocracy
50. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
exports
federalism
Factory System
rural