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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
1791
Subsistence agriculture
trade
Sub - Saharan Africa .
2. Exchange of goods and services.
George Washington
trade
standard of living
Schism
3. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Founding of Jamestown
Anti - Federalists
Standard of living
Enlightenment
4. Who opposed the Constitution?
Anti - Federalists
citizen
Per Capita Income
Republicanism
5. Curbed States' Rights
Bill of Rights
Civil War
Panama Canal
McCullough v. Maryland
6. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Theocracy
Civil War
Parliament
7. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Subsistence agriculture
1066
Literacy Rate
Taxation
8. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Hammurabi
King George III
Bill of Rights
Treaty of Paris 1783
9. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Magna Carta
13th Amendment
unalienable
market - oriented agriculture
10. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Irrigation Canals
Justinian
Communism/Command Economy
George Washington
11. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Founding of Jamestown
Traditional economy
nullify
Famine
12. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
Cottage industry
Separation of Powers
Crusaders
13. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
English Bill of Rights
Free - enterprise economic system
95 Theses
Founding of Jamestown
14. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Migration
15th Amendment
Civil War
States Rights
15. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Representative democracy
Magna Carta
Standard of living
Monroe doctrine
16. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Industrialized
Winston Churchill
Polytheism
Subsistence agriculture
17. 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
The Senate
Middle Ages
Capitalism/Market Economy
Henry Ford
18. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Unconstitutional
U.S. Constitution
Absolute Monarchy
Sub - Saharan Africa .
19. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Marbury v. Madison
Andean civilization
imports
English Bill of Rights
20. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
primary source
Magnetic Compass
Checks and Balances
Treaty of Paris 1783
21. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Articles of Confederation
(naval) blockade
nullify
Consent of the Governed
22. Pride in ones country
standard of living
Limited Government
Indulgences
Nationalism
23. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
McCullough v. Maryland
1215
Literacy Rate
Representative democracy
24. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Plessy v. Ferguson
George Washington
Magnetic Compass
Winston Churchill
25. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Individual Rights
14th Amendment
Canals
Industrial Revolution
26. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Declaration of Independence
Montesquieu
Draco
Federalist
27. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Plessy v. Ferguson
Age of Reason
Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
28. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Representative Democracy
Barriers
Printing Press
Federalist Papers
29. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
13th Amendment
Draco
House of Burgesses
Per Capita Income
30. An official change to a law or document of government.
George Washington
Totalitarianism
Atlantic Slave Trade
amendment
31. To officially approve.
ratify
amendment
tariff
Draco
32. Member of a country.
citizen
Panama Canal
Unconstitutional
exports
33. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Communism/Command Economy
Cathedrals
Traditional economy
level of development
34. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
Anti - Federalists
15th Amendment
Consent of the Governed
35. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Life Expectancy
Articles of Confederation
English Bill of Rights
Crusaders
36. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
15th Amendment
Consent of the Governed
Limited Government
Adam Smith
37. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Humanism
Protestant Reformation
Industrial Revolution
Representative democracy
38. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
cultural diffusion
Infant Mortality
1791
Plessy v. Ferguson
39. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Treaty of Paris 1783
Labor force
exports
amendment
40. President of the United States during the Civil War
Thomas Jefferson
Constitutional Monarchy
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Abraham Lincoln
41. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Longitude
Direct Democracy
Cathedrals
secondary source
42. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Parliament
bias
Immigration patterns
Oligarchy
43. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Straits
Industrialization
1776
End of Reconstruction
44. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
cultural diffusion
suffrage
Longitude
Labor force
45. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Magnetic Compass
Scientific Revolution
Secularism
Basic Needs
46. Tax on imports and exports.
Thomas Jefferson
Enlightenment
tariff
(naval) blockade
47. Average income per person
Adam Smith
bias
Per Capita Income
Bartering
48. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Age of Reason
Civil War 1861-1865
Straits
49. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Separation of Powers .
suburban
Irrigation Canals
Natural Barriers
50. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
1215
Subsistence agriculture
Anti - Federalist
Age of Exploration & Colonization