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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
veto
15th Amendment
McCullough v. Maryland
2. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
Subsistence agriculture
Anti - Federalists
English Bill of Rights
3. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
suburban
suffrage
Self Determination
1066
4. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
House of Burgesses
Industrial Revolution
Federalism
Bubonic Plague
5. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Hammurabi
Mayflower Compact
End of Reconstruction
Traditional economy
6. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Commercial Agriculture
Civil War 1861-1865
Civil War
7. All things that surround us.
tariff
Articles of Confederation
Thomas Jefferson
environment
8. 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
Representative Democracy
Checks and Balances
Columbian Exchange
Monroe doctrine
9. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
Anti - Federalists
Civil War
Monroe doctrine
10. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
13th Amendment
Straits
grievance
Barriers
11. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Thomas Jefferson
The Senate
Indulgences
Enlightenment
12. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Immigration patterns
Magna Carta
environment
Cuneiform
13. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
End of Reconstruction
Representative Government
Totalitarianism
Ben Franklin
14. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Imperialism
Plessy v. Ferguson
English Bill of Rights
George Washington
15. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Articles of Confederation
Thomas Jefferson
trade
Bill of Rights
16. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Anti - Federalists
unalienable
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
17. People who settle and live in a colony
Thomas Jefferson
Columbian Exchange
colonists
Cuneiform
18. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
grievance
Imperialism
Federalist Papers
Industrialization
19. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
level of development
Immigration patterns
Barriers
Karl Marx
20. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Immigration patterns
Declaration of Independence
Self Determination
14th Amendment
21. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
veto
Draco
Representative Democracy
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
22. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
ziggurats
Consent of the Governed
Literacy Rate
Standard of living
23. Average income per person
Per Capita Income
secondary source
English Bill of Rights
Fertile Crescent
24. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
McCullough v. Maryland
Adam Smith
Articles of Confederation
suffrage
25. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Articles of Confederation
Monroe doctrine
citizen
Direct Democracy
26. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Panama Canal
Constitutional Monarchy
bias
Hammurabi
27. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
13th Amendment
Magnetic Compass
grievance
Free - enterprise economic system
28. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Constitutional Conv.
Founding of Jamestown
Fund. Order of Conn.
Individual Rights
29. Government where the religious leader run the government
13th Amendment
House of Burgesses
14th Amendment
Theocracy
30. An official change to a law or document of government.
Montesquieu
1215
Nullification Crisis
amendment
31. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Mayflower Compact
Civil War
English Bill of Rights
32. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Printing Press
English Bill of Rights
limited government
Absolute Monarchy
33. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
Magna Carta
Straits of Hormuz
Brown v. Board of Edu.
34. Average number of years people live
Industrial Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Life Expectancy
Protestant Reformation
35. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Direct Democracy
cultural diffusion
Civil War 1861-1865
Totalitarianism
36. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
1787-1789
Separation of Powers
Suez Canal
Urban
37. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Per Capita Income
Renaissance
(naval) blockade
Protestant Reformation
38. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Civil War
unalienable
Direct Democracy
English Bill of Rights
39. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
international
Magna Carta
House of Burgesses
subsistence agriculture
40. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
secondary source
veto
Popular Sovereignty
cottage industry
41. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Bartering
Migration
Hammurabi
Founding of Jamestown
42. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Winston Churchill
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Scientific Revolution
Thomas Jefferson
43. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Industrialization
Standard of living
Migration
cottage industry
44. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Industrialized
Famine
bias
Irrigation Canals
45. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Civil War 1861-1865
Straits
13th Amendment
Hammurabi
46. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Land Ordinance of 1785
The Senate
Force Bill
Civil War
47. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Thomas Jefferson
Subsistence agriculture
federalism
Sub - Saharan Africa .
48. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Labor force
Founding of Jamestown
Suez Canal
Secularism
49. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
House of Burgesses
Articles of Confederation
Migration
Scientific Revolution
50. Complaints
grievance
Renaissance
Traditional economy
Limited Government