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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Constitutional Monarchy
George Washington
Indulgences
Marbury v. Madison
2. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Articles of Confederation
Barriers
Henry Ford
Montesquieu
3. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Anti - Federalists
House of Burgesses
limited government
Fund. Order of Conn.
4. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Factory System
Straits of Hormuz
Free - enterprise economic system
Atlantic Slave Trade
5. 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
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Barriers
Irrigation Canals
Middle Ages
6. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
House of Burgesses
Subsistence economy
Scientific Revolution
Civil War
7. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Labor force
Bubonic Plague
Articles of Confederation
8. 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.
Magna Carta
Plessy v. Ferguson
Free - enterprise economic system
Famine
9. A written plan of government for the colonies created a weak league of 13 nearly independent states in 1777. The 1st Constitution of the U.S.
Articles of Confederation
Absolute Monarchy
Bartering
Renaissance
10. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Mayflower Compact
Immigration patterns
Traditional economy
Protestant Reformation
11. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
level of development
Constitutional Monarchy
14th Amendment
bias
12. Tax on imports and exports.
Republicanism
Columbian Exchange
tariff
Winston Churchill
13. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Traditional economy
primary source
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Bill of Rights
14. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
George Washington
Cuneiform
Middle Ages
Life Expectancy
15. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
1776
Suez Canal
Winston Churchill
Taxation
16. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
1791
13th Amendment
Cuneiform
Schism
17. 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
international
secondary source
Columbian Exchange
Limited Government
18. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1066
Polytheism
Consent of the Governed
1787-1789
19. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
Standard of living
Thomas Jefferson
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Communism/Command Economy
20. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Force Bill
Industrial Revolution
Articles of Confederation
Civil War
21. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Indulgences
Subsistence economy
Urban
Republic
22. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Latitude
Imperialism
States Rights
Andean civilization
23. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
Constitutional Conv.
bias
nullify
24. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
international
Infant Mortality
Capitalism/Market Economy
Federalist Papers
25. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
95 Theses
Republic
Separation of Powers .
Imperialism
26. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Separation of Powers .
cultural diffusion
Emancipation Proclamation
standard of living
27. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
tariff
George Washington
amendment
28. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
Individual Rights
Irrigation Canals
primary source
Silk Road
29. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Totalitarianism
Magna Carta
Emancipation Proclamation
Mayflower Compact (1620)
30. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
limited government
Hammurabi
Iron Curtain
Unconstitutional
31. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Cottage industry
House of Burgesses
Founding of Jamestown
Crusaders
32. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
ratify
subsistence agriculture
Famine
Karl Marx
33. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
George Washington
Basic Needs
Anti - Federalist
suburban
34. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
1787
Famine
George Washington
Plessy v. Ferguson
35. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Republicanism
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
era
36. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Constitutional Conv.
Unconstitutional
Self Determination
Demographics
37. All things that surround us.
environment
limited government
Bubonic Plague
Marbury v. Madison
38. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Longitude
Literacy Rate
trade
39. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Enlightenment
Barriers
Federalist Papers
English Bill of Rights
40. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Straits
Consent of the Governed
Articles of Conf.
Age of Reason
41. 1st written constitution
Plessy v. Ferguson
Fund. Order of Conn.
Panama Canal
Enlightenment
42. Established Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
U.S. Constitution
Limited Government
Cuneiform
43. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Montesquieu
Federalism
era
Printing Press
44. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
rural
Standard of living
Declaration of Indepen.
Barriers
45. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Federalist Papers
1863 Emancipation Pro
Capitalism/Market Economy
Mesoamerica civilizations
46. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Theocracy
Natural Barriers
Self Determination
Thomas Jefferson
47. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
13th Amendment
George Washington
Mayflower Compact
Constitutional Conv.
48. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
15th Amendment
Republicanism
Civil War
Marbury v. Madison
49. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Emancipation Proclamation
Free - enterprise economic system
Industrial Revolution
Literacy Rate
50. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Canals
Plessy v. Ferguson
Limited Government
Constitutional Monarchy