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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Suez Canal
Latitude
14th Amendment
subsistence agriculture
2. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Individual Rights
Founding of Jamestown
Mayflower Compact (1620)
amendment
3. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Standard of living
1787-1789
Latitude
Crusaders
4. 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.
McCullough v. Maryland
Emancipation Proclamation
Articles of Confederation
Mayflower Compact
5. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Representative Government
Land Ordinance of 1785
Federalist Papers
Crusaders
6. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Unconstitutional
Age of Reason
Industrialization
cultural diffusion
7. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
John Locke
Canals
Constitutional Conv.
(naval) blockade
8. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Per Capita Income
Individual Rights
English Bill of Rights
grievance
9. Tax on imports and exports.
Separation of Powers
Unconstitutional
domestic
tariff
10. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Declaration of Indepen.
Federalism
Indulgences
Republicanism
11. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
1791
Enlightenment
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Free - enterprise economic system
12. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Self Determination
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Barriers
13. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
House of Burgesses
King George III
Taxation
Traditional economy
14. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Bill of Rights
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
International Trade
Bubonic Plague
15. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
cultural diffusion
Polytheism
tariff
George Washington
16. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
environment
Parliament
Thomas Jefferson
Migration
17. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
Federalist Papers
Subsistence agriculture
unalienable
18. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Canals
Federalism
Columbian Exchange
Bill of Rights
19. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Federalist
Draco
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Subsistence agriculture
20. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
level of development
McCullough v. Maryland
George Washington
ziggurats
21. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Renaissance
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
1066
Urban
22. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
English Bill of Rights
Direct Democracy
Demographics
Scientific Revolution
23. All things that surround us.
Enlightenment
environment
Individual Rights
Panama Canal
24. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
subsistence agriculture
Thomas Jefferson
Republic
Columbian Exchange
25. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Self Determination
Thomas Jefferson
Renaissance
Cathedrals
26. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Panama Canal
Columbian Exchange
Iron Curtain
27. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
tariff
Popular Sovereignty
International Trade
28. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Subsistence economy
Mayflower Compact
Separation of Powers
29. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Migration
Labor force
secondary source
Brown v. Board of Edu.
30. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
King George III
Life Expectancy
John Locke
Plessy v. Ferguson
31. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Checks and Balances
Middle Ages
secondary source
Treaty of Paris 1783
32. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Constitutional Monarchy
Basic Needs
33. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
English Bill of Rights
Secularism
Cathedrals
Famine
34. Split in the church
Individual Rights
urban
Schism
Thomas Jefferson
35. Economic thinker that developed communism
Individual Rights
Karl Marx
Civil War
Republicanism
36. 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
Secularism
Justinian
Declaration of Indepen.
Communism/Command Economy
37. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Enlightenment
States Rights
limited government
1791
38. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
grievance
Cotton Gin
federalism
Oligarchy
39. Modern Constitution
Totalitarianism
U.S. Constitution
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Traditional economy
40. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Industrial Revolution
Parliament
Abe Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
41. Who opposed the Constitution?
Articles of Conf.
Anti - Federalists
John Locke
trade
42. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Columbian Exchange
1863 Emancipation Pro
Founding of Jamestown
43. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.
Limited Government
1787
Inalienable/Unalienable
Enlightenment
44. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
14th Amendment
Totalitarianism
Printing Press
Subsistence economy
45. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
ratify
Parliament
Republicanism
suffrage
46. Established Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
U.S. Constitution
Humanism
Magnetic Compass
47. 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
Middle Ages
1066
subsistence agriculture
End of Reconstruction
48. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Montesquieu
suburban
Individual Rights
49. 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.
Capitalism/Market Economy
Unconstitutional
primary source
13th Amendment
50. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Longitude
Industrial Revolution
Mayflower Compact
Andean civilization