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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
suburban
Standard of living
Communism/Command Economy
House of Burgesses
2. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Draco
Justinian
Infant Mortality
English Bill of Rights
3. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Bartering
95 Theses
Suez Canal
Labor force
4. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Popular Sovereignty
George Washington
Subsistence economy
Scientific Revolution
5. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
primary source
Industrial Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Imperialism
6. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
1066
Inalienable/Unalienable
Mayflower Compact
7. King of England during the American Revolution.
Monroe doctrine
King George III
Scientific Revolution
Civil War 1861-1865
8. All things that surround us.
Mayflower Compact
Federalist
environment
Inalienable/Unalienable
9. 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.
Articles of Confederation
1863 Emancipation Pro
primary source
Age of Reason
10. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Industrial Revolution
Cathedrals
suburban
Bill of Rights
11. An official change to a law or document of government.
amendment
trade
Protestant Reformation
Articles of Confederation
12. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Suez Canal
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Individual Rights
Self Determination
13. Belief in many gods
bias
Separation of Powers
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Polytheism
14. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Imperialism
subsistence agriculture
Civil War 1861-1865
15. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
primary source
Age of Reason
Emancipation Proclamation
Nullification Crisis
16. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Ben Franklin
secondary source
Latitude
17. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Federalist
Communism/Command Economy
Famine
18. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Magna Carta
Thomas Jefferson
Infant Mortality
Industrial Revolution
19. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Nullification Crisis
George Washington
Urban
International Trade
20. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Industrial Revolution
suffrage
Oligarchy
Draco
21. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
secondary source
Fund. Order of Conn.
Federalist Papers
15th Amendment
22. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Magna Carta
Articles of Confederation
Longitude
Factory System
23. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Thomas Jefferson
Irrigation Canals
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Direct Democracy
24. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Federalist Papers
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
ratify
Limited Government
25. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
George Washington
End of Reconstruction
Federalism
Emancipation Proclamation
26. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
The Nullification Crisis
Plessy v. Ferguson
suffrage
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
27. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
English Bill of Rights
13th Amendment
Nationalism
ziggurats
28. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Checks and Balances
Andean civilization
Winston Churchill
Draco
29. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Magna Carta
1791
Civil War
15th Amendment
30. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
Oligarchy
Self Determination
Fertile Crescent
31. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Infant Mortality
Industrialization
Self Determination
English Bill of Rights
32. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
1215
Taxation
trade
33. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Separation of Powers
suffrage
English Bill of Rights
The Senate
34. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Industrialized
suffrage
Henry Ford
35. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Mayflower Compact
Marbury v. Madison
Parliament
imports
36. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Industrialization
rural
37. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Marbury v. Madison
14th Amendment
Enlightenment
End of Reconstruction
38. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
1791
Draco
13th Amendment
Natural Barriers
39. 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
1776
Silk Road
1863 Emancipation Pro
Checks and Balances
40. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Abraham Lincoln
English Bill of Rights
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
primary source
41. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Iron Curtain
Andean civilization
Scientific Revolution
tariff
42. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Totalitarianism
exports
Subsistence agriculture
Printing Press
43. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison
Thomas Jefferson
Constitutional Monarchy
44. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Representative democracy
Labor force
John Locke
suffrage
45. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Separation of Powers
Industrialization
Articles of Confederation
Federalist Papers
46. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
George Washington
Demographics
Standard of living
market - oriented agriculture
47. 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
Nullification Crisis
Natural Barriers
Anti - Federalist
1776
48. 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.
citizen
McCullough v. Maryland
1787-1789
Articles of Confederation
49. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
suffrage
Iron Curtain
Nullification Crisis
Capitalism/Market Economy
50. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
English Bill of Rights
Sub - Saharan Africa .
John Locke
Federalist