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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Scientific Revolution
Bubonic Plague
Urban
Land Ordinance of 1785
2. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Karl Marx
Straits of Hormuz
veto
Urban
3. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Standard of living
States Rights
1863 Emancipation Pro
Magna Carta
4. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Marbury v. Madison
Per Capita Income
nullify
Individual Rights
5. Split in the church
tariff
Schism
Winston Churchill
Republic
6. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Silk Road
Per Capita Income
cottage industry
Sub - Saharan Africa .
7. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Abe Lincoln
English Bill of Rights
Industrialized
Barriers
8. 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.
imports
Articles of Confederation
Fund. Order of Conn.
ziggurats
9. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
14th Amendment
Silk Road
Crusaders
Schism
10. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Hammurabi
15th Amendment
Force Bill
11. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Middle Ages
Republicanism
Bartering
John Locke
12. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Industrial Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
1791
rural
13. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785
ratify
Magnetic Compass
14. King/queen who has unlimited power
imports
Absolute Monarchy
English Bill of Rights
Articles of Conf.
15. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Federalism
The Nullification Crisis
suburban
Sub - Saharan Africa .
16. 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.
Mesoamerica civilizations
Magna Carta
Capitalism/Market Economy
primary source
17. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Justinian
imports
Civil War
Industrial Revolution
18. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Representative Government
Bill of Rights
Indulgences
Limited Government
19. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.
Cathedrals
Force Bill
Anti - Federalists
Cotton Gin
20. Member of a country.
Capitalism/Market Economy
citizen
McCullough v. Maryland
Barriers
21. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Straits of Hormuz
Separation of Powers
Taxation
1215
22. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Fertile Crescent
Montesquieu
Individual Rights
Enlightenment
23. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
States Rights
Adam Smith
The Senate
unalienable
24. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Popular Sovereignty
Nullification Crisis
Parliament
13th Amendment
25. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Constitutional Conv.
Direct Democracy
Panama Canal
Federalism
26. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Consent of the Governed
nullify
International Trade
Direct Democracy
27. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Labor force
limited government
imports
28. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
George Washington
Republicanism
Marbury v. Madison
U.S. Constitution
29. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Hammurabi
Bill of Rights
13th Amendment
Longitude
30. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Traditional economy
Longitude
English Bill of Rights
Industrialized
31. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Per Capita Income
Representative democracy
Republicanism
Literacy Rate
32. Curbed States' Rights
15th Amendment
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Mayflower Compact (1620)
33. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Founding of Jamestown
1787-1789
Andean civilization
Theocracy
34. Mass production of food
Subsistence economy
Latitude
95 Theses
Commercial Agriculture
35. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Abe Lincoln
King George III
36. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Enlightenment
U.S. Constitution
Urban
Crusaders
37. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
George Washington
Andean civilization
Limited Government
Civil War
38. This is also referred to as a city
1066
Commercial Agriculture
Fund. Order of Conn.
Urban
39. Tax on imports and exports.
Printing Press
Imperialism
tariff
Bill of Rights
40. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
international
Irrigation Canals
Individual Rights
41. Economic thinker that developed communism
Parliament
Totalitarianism
Karl Marx
Basic Needs
42. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Totalitarianism
Popular Sovereignty
Limited Government
Marbury v. Madison
43. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Humanism
English Bill of Rights
nullify
Cuneiform
44. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
George Washington
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Scientific Revolution
Abe Lincoln
45. King of England during the American Revolution.
Mayflower Compact
Migration
House of Burgesses
King George III
46. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Emancipation Proclamation
Industrial Revolution
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Immigration patterns
47. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
Bubonic Plague
Monotheism
secondary source
48. Exchange of goods and services.
trade
Republic
rural
Bill of Rights
49. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Direct Democracy
Emancipation Proclamation
Infant Mortality
market - oriented agriculture
50. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Fertile Crescent
The Nullification Crisis
grievance
Republicanism