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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
Federalist
Bill of Rights
Bubonic Plague
Thomas Jefferson
2. 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
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Silk Road
Schism
rural
3. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Atlantic Slave Trade
(naval) blockade
Monotheism
Ben Franklin
4. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
House of Burgesses
Industrialized
Bill of Rights
subsistence agriculture
5. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
Middle Ages
Latitude
Cathedrals
6. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Articles of Conf.
Age of Reason
Enlightenment
amendment
7. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Fertile Crescent
Irrigation Canals
Commercial Agriculture
Bill of Rights
8. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Representative Government
1863 Emancipation Pro
Mayflower Compact
Civil War
9. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Fertile Crescent
Andean civilization
Draco
Latitude
10. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
Anti - Federalists
Direct Democracy
tariff
11. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Thomas Jefferson
standard of living
Magna Carta
Representative Government
12. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Draco
Limited Government
Natural Barriers
Demographics
13. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
95 Theses
Polytheism
14th Amendment
Popular Sovereignty
14. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Bill of Rights
Force Bill
Individual Rights
Oligarchy
15. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
King George III
Standard of living
Taxation
rural
16. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Consent of the Governed
Secularism
Popular Sovereignty
Constitutional Monarchy
17. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
1215
Per Capita Income
Demographics
ratify
18. 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.
The Senate
Republic
1215
1787
19. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Separation of Powers .
Individual Rights
Bill of Rights
Per Capita Income
20. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
The Nullification Crisis
rural
Articles of Confederation
Republic
21. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Republic
cultural diffusion
Free - enterprise economic system
suffrage
22. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
14th Amendment
Unconstitutional
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Crusaders
23. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Hammurabi
13th Amendment
environment
Imperialism
24. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Columbian Exchange
Famine
(naval) blockade
Inalienable/Unalienable
25. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Life Expectancy
Totalitarianism
Industrial Revolution
Plessy v. Ferguson
26. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Popular Sovereignty
13th Amendment
Theocracy
1776
27. Officially ended the American Revolution
Protestant Reformation
Treaty of Paris 1783
Enlightenment
ziggurats
28. Split in the church
Schism
Karl Marx
tariff
Plessy v. Ferguson
29. 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.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Checks and Balances
Bartering
Ben Franklin
30. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
Cathedrals
unalienable
Latitude
31. 1st written constitution
amendment
15th Amendment
Irrigation Canals
Fund. Order of Conn.
32. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Panama Canal
ratify
Separation of Powers
33. Curbed States' Rights
Schism
Winston Churchill
McCullough v. Maryland
Nationalism
34. First representative assembly in American
1787
House of Burgesses
Limited Government
colonists
35. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Industrialization
Republic
Cottage industry
Articles of Confederation
36. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Enlightenment
Inalienable/Unalienable
Anti - Federalist
37. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Representative Government
Limited Government
Checks and Balances
Infant Mortality
38. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Federalism
environment
Standard of living
Marbury v. Madison
39. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
John Locke
Articles of Confederation
Suez Canal
40. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
level of development
Subsistence agriculture
Middle Ages
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
41. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
Longitude
Emancipation Proclamation
Totalitarianism
42. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Subsistence economy
Representative Democracy
Straits
Panama Canal
43. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Representative democracy
Capitalism/Market Economy
Republic
Bill of Rights
44. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
domestic
Monroe doctrine
Federalist Papers
Unconstitutional
45. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Magna Carta
Theocracy
14th Amendment
Mesoamerica civilizations
46. Mass production of food
Famine
Marbury v. Madison
Commercial Agriculture
English Bill of Rights
47. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
King George III
Standard of living
Suez Canal
House of Burgesses
48. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Karl Marx
level of development
Atlantic Slave Trade
Inalienable/Unalienable
49. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Adam Smith
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Irrigation Canals
nullify
50. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Founding of Jamestown
Ben Franklin
Iron Curtain
rural