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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
Secularism
Checks and Balances
1776
Monotheism
2. Having to do with one's own homeland
standard of living
House of Burgesses
domestic
End of Reconstruction
3. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Separation of Powers
Federalism
Civil War
Enlightenment
4. Government where the religious leader run the government
Civil War
Traditional economy
Labor force
Theocracy
5. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Plessy v. Ferguson
Monroe doctrine
Representative democracy
Age of Exploration & Colonization
6. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Migration
Capitalism/Market Economy
Unconstitutional
trade
7. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Separation of Powers
Traditional economy
Standard of living
primary source
8. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
States Rights
1791
Anti - Federalist
Industrial Revolution
9. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Protestant Reformation
Constitutional Monarchy
Straits of Hormuz
Panama Canal
10. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Commercial Agriculture
Republic
Age of Reason
Montesquieu
11. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Migration
Montesquieu
Atlantic Slave Trade
12. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
limited government
suburban
Montesquieu
International Trade
13. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Representative Democracy
1787-1789
Mayflower Compact
Consent of the Governed
14. To officially approve.
King George III
ratify
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
George Washington
15. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Natural Barriers
The Senate
Magna Carta
secondary source
16. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Schism
1215
Limited Government
Panama Canal
17. 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
Representative Government
Enlightenment
Popular Sovereignty
18. Government ruled by a few powerful people
suffrage
Suez Canal
States Rights
Oligarchy
19. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
trade
1791
Traditional economy
(naval) blockade
20. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Separation of Powers .
Thomas Jefferson
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Indepen.
21. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
13th Amendment
Cottage industry
Founding of Jamestown
22. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Imperialism
Crusaders
Checks and Balances
Representative democracy
23. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
English Bill of Rights
Polytheism
Monroe doctrine
Parliament
24. 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 Conf.
Anti - Federalists
Articles of Confederation
Republic
25. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Industrialization
Bartering
Renaissance
Justinian
26. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Marbury v. Madison
Enlightenment
Irrigation Canals
Representative Democracy
27. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
grievance
15th Amendment
Subsistence agriculture
Consent of the Governed
28. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
Hammurabi
Urban
Draco
29. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
rural
Mesoamerica civilizations
1863 Emancipation Pro
Magna Carta
30. People who settle and live in a colony
Secularism
Atlantic Slave Trade
Andean civilization
colonists
31. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
Mayflower Compact
George Washington
McCullough v. Maryland
32. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Bill of Rights
Civil War
rural
Thomas Jefferson
33. King of England during the American Revolution.
Oligarchy
Fund. Order of Conn.
Barriers
King George III
34. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Industrial Revolution
The Senate
Nationalism
Declaration of Indepen.
35. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
Republic
federalism
citizen
36. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Suez Canal
The Nullification Crisis
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Factory System
37. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
environment
Age of Reason
Abe Lincoln
38. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Direct Democracy
Magna Carta
Republicanism
Secularism
39. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Federalist Papers
Capitalism/Market Economy
Articles of Confederation
citizen
40. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
market - oriented agriculture
Declaration of Independence
(naval) blockade
Scientific Revolution
41. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
market - oriented agriculture
Popular Sovereignty
Plessy v. Ferguson
Limited Government
42. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Checks and Balances
Unconstitutional
1787-1789
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
43. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Literacy Rate
Cuneiform
Declaration of Indepen.
Protestant Reformation
44. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Oligarchy
Bubonic Plague
Imperialism
nullify
45. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Declaration of Indepen.
Checks and Balances
Silk Road
Barriers
46. Opposed to the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government and not enough to the states. They also wanted individual rights protected
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Anti - Federalist
Factory System
47. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Basic Needs
Indulgences
Latitude
1776
48. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Representative Government
Representative Democracy
cultural diffusion
49. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
amendment
citizen
Direct Democracy
Emancipation Proclamation
50. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Cottage industry
International Trade
1215
John Locke