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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Declaration of Independence
Draco
Karl Marx
Founding of Jamestown
2. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
Treaty of Paris 1783
citizen
English Bill of Rights
3. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Marbury v. Madison
Absolute Monarchy
standard of living
Declaration of Independence
4. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Separation of Powers .
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Infant Mortality
Absolute Monarchy
5. Split in the church
Constitutional Monarchy
King George III
Monroe doctrine
Schism
6. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
grievance
Renaissance
14th Amendment
Taxation
7. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
bias
Latitude
1776
8. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Thomas Jefferson
Immigration patterns
Federalist Papers
Declaration of Indepen.
9. Member of a country.
urban
Checks and Balances
citizen
amendment
10. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
Mesoamerica civilizations
Representative Government
U.S. Constitution
11. 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
Literacy Rate
Life Expectancy
14th Amendment
12. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
market - oriented agriculture
Bubonic Plague
1066
tariff
13. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
Hammurabi
Montesquieu
Age of Exploration & Colonization
14. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Declaration of Independence
Representative Government
level of development
amendment
15. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Immigration patterns
Nationalism
Abe Lincoln
Federalist Papers
16. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Constitutional Conv.
George Washington
13th Amendment
John Locke
17. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
13th Amendment
Federalist
Standard of living
18. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Individual Rights
(naval) blockade
Canals
citizen
19. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
Magna Carta
Thomas Jefferson
Separation of Powers .
20. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
King George III
Inalienable/Unalienable
Limited Government
Subsistence agriculture
21. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Montesquieu
Articles of Confederation
Silk Road
Separation of Powers .
22. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
international
Renaissance
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
23. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
rural
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Standard of living
Thomas Jefferson
24. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Civil War 1861-1865
Self Determination
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Popular Sovereignty
25. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Republicanism
Imperialism
McCullough v. Maryland
Thomas Jefferson
26. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
States Rights
Justinian
Montesquieu
Protestant Reformation
27. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Adam Smith
1215
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Middle Ages
28. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
King George III
Andean civilization
exports
29. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Federalist Papers
Montesquieu
14th Amendment
Republicanism
30. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Subsistence agriculture
House of Burgesses
Demographics
Monotheism
31. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
14th Amendment
Federalism
House of Burgesses
Age of Exploration & Colonization
32. King of England during the American Revolution.
King George III
Latitude
grievance
primary source
33. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
trade
Factory System
Montesquieu
domestic
34. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
imports
Federalist
Canals
cottage industry
35. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Articles of Conf.
Hammurabi
Theocracy
36. Limited the power of the King in 1215
English Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Abraham Lincoln
Canals
37. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Checks and Balances
Free - enterprise economic system
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Federalist
38. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
secondary source
Federalist Papers
Land Ordinance of 1785
39. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Inalienable/Unalienable
15th Amendment
House of Burgesses
Articles of Confederation
40. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Fertile Crescent
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Subsistence agriculture
41. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
14th Amendment
Andean civilization
Individual Rights
Traditional economy
42. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
End of Reconstruction
Federalist Papers
International Trade
43. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
tariff
1787-1789
Mesoamerica civilizations
Magna Carta
44. Pride in ones country
International Trade
cottage industry
Federalism
Nationalism
45. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Urban
Longitude
Labor force
46. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
trade
Irrigation Canals
Immigration patterns
Articles of Confederation
47. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Popular Sovereignty
Mayflower Compact
Atlantic Slave Trade
Cotton Gin
48. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
federalism
Force Bill
exports
Thomas Jefferson
49. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Federalism
rural
Irrigation Canals
50. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
13th Amendment
Crusaders
Federalist Papers
Capitalism/Market Economy