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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Nationalism
1787
Henry Ford
1215
2. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Suez Canal
Magna Carta
15th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
3. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Industrialized
citizen
Indulgences
Articles of Confederation
4. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Basic Needs
Thomas Jefferson
1791
The Nullification Crisis
5. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Declaration of Independence
era
Labor force
1787-1789
6. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
amendment
Capitalism/Market Economy
Abe Lincoln
Republicanism
7. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
1776
Parliament
Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
8. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
House of Burgesses
Abraham Lincoln
Marbury v. Madison
Industrial Revolution
9. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
unalienable
Protestant Reformation
Anti - Federalist
Representative Government
10. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
1215
Checks and Balances
Individual Rights
Industrial Revolution
11. An official change to a law or document of government.
amendment
Sub - Saharan Africa .
End of Reconstruction
Individual Rights
12. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
End of Reconstruction
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln
Infant Mortality
13. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
bias
Inalienable/Unalienable
Individual Rights
Age of Reason
14. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Representative democracy
95 Theses
domestic
Iron Curtain
15. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Articles of Confederation
amendment
Imperialism
Checks and Balances
16. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Age of Reason
Monroe doctrine
Longitude
Nationalism
17. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Civil War
standard of living
Articles of Confederation
Thomas Jefferson
18. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Famine
suffrage
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Individual Rights
19. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Taxation
Inalienable/Unalienable
1863 Emancipation Pro
20. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Cuneiform
1066
Justinian
Federalism
21. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Popular Sovereignty
Limited Government
1215
Theocracy
22. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Demographics
Magnetic Compass
Industrialization
era
23. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Consent of the Governed
John Locke
Draco
24. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Protestant Reformation
George Washington
Fertile Crescent
U.S. Constitution
25. Economic thinker that developed communism
rural
Absolute Monarchy
Crusaders
Karl Marx
26. Belief in many gods
English Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Polytheism
Representative Democracy
27. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
unalienable
Civil War 1861-1865
Traditional economy
Age of Reason
28. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Natural Barriers
Polytheism
Bill of Rights
1215
29. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
1791
standard of living
Montesquieu
1776
30. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Mayflower Compact
Emancipation Proclamation
1863 Emancipation Pro
Mayflower Compact (1620)
31. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
George Washington
Popular Sovereignty
McCullough v. Maryland
Plessy v. Ferguson
32. Officially ended the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783
John Locke
13th Amendment
amendment
33. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
ratify
Civil War
Montesquieu
Industrialization
34. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Checks and Balances
15th Amendment
Capitalism/Market Economy
Declaration of Independence
35. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
George Washington
suffrage
Limited Government
Federalist
36. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Taxation
McCullough v. Maryland
Emancipation Proclamation
Consent of the Governed
37. Having to do with one's own homeland
Longitude
Magna Carta
George Washington
domestic
38. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
1787
Iron Curtain
Founding of Jamestown
unalienable
39. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
cottage industry
15th Amendment
Constitutional Conv.
Founding of Jamestown
40. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
level of development
Silk Road
nullify
U.S. Constitution
41. Mass production of food
Plessy v. Ferguson
Immigration patterns
Self Determination
Commercial Agriculture
42. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
market - oriented agriculture
Secularism
Latitude
Republicanism
43. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Cuneiform
Republicanism
U.S. Constitution
cottage industry
44. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Monroe doctrine
Individual Rights
level of development
Republic
45. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
Force Bill
English Bill of Rights
level of development
46. Split in the church
Schism
Representative democracy
Individual Rights
international
47. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
English Bill of Rights
Theocracy
Monotheism
Polytheism
48. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Industrialization
Federalism
Separation of Powers .
15th Amendment
49. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
cultural diffusion
Irrigation Canals
Sub - Saharan Africa .
primary source
50. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Direct Democracy
Industrialization
1787
International Trade