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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
End of Reconstruction
Nationalism
tariff
Civil War
2. 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
Monotheism
Irrigation Canals
Popular Sovereignty
3. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
Bill of Rights
market - oriented agriculture
English Bill of Rights
4. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
House of Burgesses
trade
George Washington
standard of living
5. Average number of years people live
English Bill of Rights
Life Expectancy
McCullough v. Maryland
Unconstitutional
6. Tax on imports and exports.
tariff
Oligarchy
The Nullification Crisis
Migration
7. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Parliament
Monotheism
Barriers
14th Amendment
8. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Factory System
Representative Government
Schism
Traditional economy
9. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Middle Ages
Anti - Federalists
unalienable
Direct Democracy
10. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Individual Rights
Age of Reason
Founding of Jamestown
Federalist Papers
11. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
market - oriented agriculture
Parliament
Labor force
Articles of Confederation
12. 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
Straits of Hormuz
Articles of Confederation
colonists
13. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Justinian
King George III
Articles of Confederation
imports
14. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
Civil War 1861-1865
primary source
Suez Canal
15. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
Plessy v. Ferguson
Civil War 1861-1865
Traditional economy
16. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Standard of living
Federalism
Republic
Suez Canal
17. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Articles of Conf.
Migration
Republicanism
Secularism
18. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
Age of Reason
Marbury v. Madison
ziggurats
19. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
cultural diffusion
Straits
Constitutional Conv.
English Bill of Rights
20. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Limited Government
Industrialized
1787
Montesquieu
21. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Longitude
International Trade
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Straits
22. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Unconstitutional
Factory System
George Washington
English Bill of Rights
23. 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
environment
amendment
Checks and Balances
24. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Republicanism
Straits
Draco
Industrialization
25. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
(naval) blockade
Treaty of Paris 1783
Declaration of Independence
26. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Life Expectancy
subsistence agriculture
cottage industry
27. Belief in one god
Oligarchy
Standard of living
trade
Monotheism
28. President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Enlightenment
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Industrialization
29. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Schism
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Per Capita Income
federalism
30. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers
English Bill of Rights
14th Amendment
31. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Plessy v. Ferguson
Urban
Industrial Revolution
Printing Press
32. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
House of Burgesses
Bill of Rights
trade
Iron Curtain
33. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
International Trade
exports
Popular Sovereignty
Canals
34. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Free - enterprise economic system
Oligarchy
Famine
rural
35. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
House of Burgesses
Separation of Powers
Industrial Revolution
Declaration of Indepen.
36. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Natural Barriers
Immigration patterns
rural
Straits of Hormuz
37. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Anti - Federalists
Individual Rights
(naval) blockade
English Bill of Rights
38. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Per Capita Income
subsistence agriculture
Bubonic Plague
Panama Canal
39. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
Secularism
Subsistence economy
limited government
40. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Fund. Order of Conn.
colonists
Constitutional Conv.
Federalist
41. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
trade
Federalist Papers
Unconstitutional
42. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Infant Mortality
Constitutional Monarchy
Irrigation Canals
Taxation
43. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Panama Canal
Totalitarianism
John Locke
Mesoamerica civilizations
44. These slow down movement/migration
Crusaders
Henry Ford
Barriers
14th Amendment
45. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
subsistence agriculture
ziggurats
Factory System
Secularism
46. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
(naval) blockade
Taxation
standard of living
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
47. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Abe Lincoln
Cotton Gin
Capitalism/Market Economy
Republicanism
48. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Republicanism
Panama Canal
Thomas Jefferson
Individual Rights
49. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Absolute Monarchy
Famine
Immigration patterns
13th Amendment
50. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
George Washington
Marbury v. Madison
Bill of Rights
Subsistence agriculture