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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Secularism
Straits of Hormuz
Magna Carta
U.S. Constitution
2. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Emancipation Proclamation
grievance
Demographics
3. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
English Bill of Rights
Popular Sovereignty
15th Amendment
Winston Churchill
4. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Immigration patterns
Draco
Marbury v. Madison
Checks and Balances
5. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Scientific Revolution
Basic Needs
Communism/Command Economy
13th Amendment
6. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
amendment
Land Ordinance of 1785
7. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe doctrine
Demographics
Parliament
Imperialism
8. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Adam Smith
Basic Needs
era
9. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
George Washington
Limited Government
Plessy v. Ferguson
Enlightenment
10. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Articles of Confederation
Canals
Federalism
Civil War
11. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Limited Government
Indulgences
Mayflower Compact
Unconstitutional
12. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Nullification Crisis
Bill of Rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Irrigation Canals
13. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
amendment
Mesoamerica civilizations
Columbian Exchange
14. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Crusaders
Bill of Rights
Articles of Conf.
U.S. Constitution
15. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Mesoamerica civilizations
Atlantic Slave Trade
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Age of Reason
16. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Montesquieu
Draco
13th Amendment
Andean civilization
17. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
imports
States Rights
Articles of Conf.
1776
18. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Limited Government
Indulgences
Inalienable/Unalienable
95 Theses
19. Making goods out of the home
15th Amendment
Cuneiform
U.S. Constitution
Cottage industry
20. Tax on imports and exports.
Traditional economy
tariff
Constitutional Monarchy
15th Amendment
21. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
14th Amendment
Mayflower Compact
Scientific Revolution
Indulgences
22. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Labor force
George Washington
Magna Carta
Justinian
23. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Imperialism
Draco
international
Oligarchy
24. 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.
Age of Reason
Emancipation Proclamation
Immigration patterns
Force Bill
25. Complaints
grievance
Middle Ages
colonists
Columbian Exchange
26. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Federalist
Hammurabi
Life Expectancy
1066
27. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Anti - Federalist
House of Burgesses
Abraham Lincoln
Standard of living
28. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
Nationalism
Brown v. Board of Edu.
95 Theses
29. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Mayflower Compact (1620)
limited government
Abe Lincoln
1787-1789
30. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
rural
Taxation
Henry Ford
Panama Canal
31. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
Straits
Declaration of Indepen.
George Washington
32. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Declaration of Independence
Representative Government
Straits
Consent of the Governed
33. This is also referred to as a city
Federalist Papers
Middle Ages
Representative Democracy
Urban
34. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
States Rights
14th Amendment
Scientific Revolution
Crusaders
35. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Cathedrals
14th Amendment
Cottage industry
36. People in a society that are willing and able to work
cottage industry
Individual Rights
Force Bill
Labor force
37. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
The Nullification Crisis
House of Burgesses
Demographics
Monotheism
38. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Checks and Balances
Panama Canal
Migration
Age of Reason
39. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Declaration of Independence
King George III
Separation of Powers
Civil War 1861-1865
40. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Republicanism
1776
Monroe doctrine
Limited Government
41. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
George Washington
Famine
Enlightenment
Treaty of Paris 1783
42. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Nationalism
ziggurats
International Trade
Constitutional Monarchy
43. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Panama Canal
Bartering
Anti - Federalists
Constitutional Conv.
44. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Totalitarianism
John Locke
Republic
Separation of Powers .
45. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalism
Subsistence economy
46. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Winston Churchill
Draco
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Separation of Powers .
47. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Monroe doctrine
Silk Road
Factory System
1787-1789
48. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Bill of Rights
1787
Land Ordinance of 1785
Limited Government
49. 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
Silk Road
Karl Marx
Articles of Confederation
Representative democracy
50. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
colonists
Enlightenment
Plessy v. Ferguson