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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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1. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
George Washington
Secularism
Treaty of Paris 1783
Force Bill
2. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Totalitarianism
Urban
Cotton Gin
Industrialized
3. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
trade
Justinian
Atlantic Slave Trade
imports
4. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Treaty of Paris 1783
Subsistence economy
Enlightenment
5. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Articles of Confederation
Industrial Revolution
Representative Democracy
13th Amendment
6. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Land Ordinance of 1785
Individual Rights
Fertile Crescent
suburban
7. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
14th Amendment
Articles of Conf.
Mesoamerica civilizations
8. Member of a country.
Infant Mortality
market - oriented agriculture
Nationalism
citizen
9. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Latitude
End of Reconstruction
Demographics
Anti - Federalist
10. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Age of Reason
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
McCullough v. Maryland
11. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
The Nullification Crisis
Unconstitutional
Declaration of Indepen.
Indulgences
12. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Declaration of Independence
Magna Carta
Articles of Confederation
ratify
13. Economic thinker that developed communism
Henry Ford
Karl Marx
Bill of Rights
Atlantic Slave Trade
14. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Scientific Revolution
cottage industry
Factory System
International Trade
15. Belief in many gods
Republic
Republic
Polytheism
Renaissance
16. 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
Monroe doctrine
Andean civilization
Ben Franklin
17. 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.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Free - enterprise economic system
Longitude
Hammurabi
18. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Civil War 1861-1865
1215
Representative democracy
era
19. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Constitutional Conv.
Polytheism
Republicanism
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
20. Curbed States' Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785
McCullough v. Maryland
Direct Democracy
15th Amendment
21. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Enlightenment
Separation of Powers
Literacy Rate
Atlantic Slave Trade
22. First representative assembly in American
Bubonic Plague
House of Burgesses
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis
23. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Imperialism
exports
limited government
Monroe doctrine
24. Average income per person
Taxation
Separation of Powers .
Fund. Order of Conn.
Per Capita Income
25. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
era
Suez Canal
Civil War 1861-1865
standard of living
26. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution
Absolute Monarchy
Declaration of Indepen.
27. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
International Trade
Imperialism
limited government
Representative Government
28. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
standard of living
Representative Government
Printing Press
Atlantic Slave Trade
29. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
bias
Panama Canal
Marbury v. Madison
Limited Government
30. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
15th Amendment
cultural diffusion
Emancipation Proclamation
Basic Needs
31. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Limited Government
Federalist Papers
tariff
Enlightenment
32. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
imports
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
Fund. Order of Conn.
33. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Federalism
Latitude
Per Capita Income
bias
34. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Panama Canal
Republicanism
Civil War
1791
35. These slow down movement/migration
Free - enterprise economic system
Barriers
Suez Canal
market - oriented agriculture
36. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Industrialization
13th Amendment
Barriers
15th Amendment
37. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Immigration patterns
1066
Cotton Gin
Free - enterprise economic system
38. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
veto
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
States Rights
Force Bill
39. President of the United States during the Civil War
Columbian Exchange
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Industrialized
Abraham Lincoln
40. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Subsistence agriculture
Crusaders
veto
Capitalism/Market Economy
41. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
International Trade
Longitude
standard of living
Federalist Papers
42. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Magna Carta
Adam Smith
1791
Straits of Hormuz
43. Belief in one god
13th Amendment
Monotheism
Imperialism
Civil War 1861-1865
44. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Monotheism
federalism
Fertile Crescent
George Washington
45. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Printing Press
Secularism
Totalitarianism
veto
46. Making goods out of the home
George Washington
Cottage industry
Urban
ziggurats
47. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Taxation
1863 Emancipation Pro
Mesoamerica civilizations
cultural diffusion
48. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Plessy v. Ferguson
Individual Rights
Separation of Powers .
Nationalism
49. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
95 Theses
Industrial Revolution
Theocracy
Age of Exploration & Colonization
50. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
Cathedrals
Magna Carta
George Washington
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