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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
standard of living
Civil War 1861-1865
1776
2. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
cultural diffusion
Federalist Papers
Declaration of Independence
Barriers
3. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Indulgences
15th Amendment
Hammurabi
Federalist
4. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Thomas Jefferson
Cathedrals
Nullification Crisis
Articles of Conf.
5. Separate is not equal in public Schools
urban
Polytheism
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Latitude
6. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Representative Government
Separation of Powers .
Direct Democracy
Limited Government
7. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Infant Mortality
Separation of Powers
Crusaders
Limited Government
8. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
suburban
1787-1789
Individual Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
9. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Representative democracy
imports
George Washington
tariff
10. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Monroe doctrine
Abe Lincoln
Subsistence agriculture
Individual Rights
11. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Scientific Revolution
1787
Iron Curtain
Industrial Revolution
12. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
primary source
States Rights
Urban
Mayflower Compact
13. Involving other countries
Scientific Revolution
The Senate
Constitutional Conv.
international
14. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Per Capita Income
Marbury v. Madison
Civil War 1861-1865
15. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
U.S. Constitution
Treaty of Paris 1783
1787-1789
16. The System in the U.S. and other free market economies. It includes economic choice - competition - profit motive - and limited government regulation of the economy.
Free - enterprise economic system
Limited Government
veto
Justinian
17. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Barriers
Inalienable/Unalienable
George Washington
Ben Franklin
18. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
Standard of living
Polytheism
Winston Churchill
19. Modern Constitution
U.S. Constitution
Sub - Saharan Africa .
citizen
Fund. Order of Conn.
20. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
1791
Free - enterprise economic system
English Bill of Rights
Marbury v. Madison
21. Split in the church
Scientific Revolution
Schism
English Bill of Rights
The Nullification Crisis
22. People who settle and live in a colony
Bubonic Plague
Demographics
colonists
End of Reconstruction
23. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
1787-1789
Mesoamerica civilizations
Straits
Plessy v. Ferguson
24. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Irrigation Canals
Thomas Jefferson
Natural Barriers
Humanism
25. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
nullify
Capitalism/Market Economy
Traditional economy
International Trade
26. Average number of years people live
Popular Sovereignty
Republicanism
Life Expectancy
1215
27. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Winston Churchill
Humanism
Andean civilization
Civil War 1861-1865
28. An official change to a law or document of government.
Karl Marx
amendment
Indulgences
Totalitarianism
29. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Articles of Confederation
amendment
Life Expectancy
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
30. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
13th Amendment
Cathedrals
Bill of Rights
era
31. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Straits of Hormuz
1863 Emancipation Pro
Famine
Founding of Jamestown
32. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Enlightenment
Constitutional Monarchy
1791
Direct Democracy
33. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Traditional economy
Canals
Industrialized
unalienable
34. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
The Senate
Capitalism/Market Economy
exports
95 Theses
35. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Separation of Powers .
level of development
Irrigation Canals
Justinian
36. This is also referred to as a city
Polytheism
Urban
Free - enterprise economic system
suffrage
37. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Force Bill
Civil War 1861-1865
Marbury v. Madison
John Locke
38. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
King George III
13th Amendment
suburban
Thomas Jefferson
39. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Factory System
era
Natural Barriers
40. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Limited Government
Longitude
Federalism
ziggurats
41. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
13th Amendment
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
1791
42. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Adam Smith
Brown v. Board of Edu.
1776
(naval) blockade
43. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
trade
English Bill of Rights
Protestant Reformation
Emancipation Proclamation
44. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Magna Carta
Bubonic Plague
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Commercial Agriculture
45. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
unalienable
Middle Ages
Consent of the Governed
Inalienable/Unalienable
46. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
The Senate
(naval) blockade
Popular Sovereignty
Constitutional Monarchy
47. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Totalitarianism
ratify
Theocracy
Federalist Papers
48. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Declaration of Independence
Migration
Justinian
George Washington
49. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Self Determination
Emancipation Proclamation
1215
Bill of Rights
50. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
level of development
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
environment
Declaration of Independence