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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
citizen
Industrialization
suburban
15th Amendment
2. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
tariff
Declaration of Independence
Industrial Revolution
Hammurabi
3. Modern Constitution
Middle Ages
U.S. Constitution
Nationalism
Popular Sovereignty
4. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Founding of Jamestown
Bill of Rights
1863 Emancipation Pro
5. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
Separation of Powers
Fund. Order of Conn.
Articles of Confederation
6. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
ziggurats
Mesoamerica civilizations
Longitude
7. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
14th Amendment
tariff
Magnetic Compass
Taxation
8. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Civil War
14th Amendment
Adam Smith
Literacy Rate
9. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Magnetic Compass
Magna Carta
Taxation
Mayflower Compact (1620)
10. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Nullification Crisis
Draco
1066
11. President of the United States during the Civil War
14th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
Commercial Agriculture
Articles of Conf.
12. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Declaration of Indepen.
13th Amendment
Marbury v. Madison
Per Capita Income
13. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Free - enterprise economic system
The Nullification Crisis
Articles of Confederation
Straits
14. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Civil War
Iron Curtain
Constitutional Monarchy
Civil War
15. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Parliament
Oligarchy
suburban
Karl Marx
16. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
George Washington
Marbury v. Madison
Standard of living
Checks and Balances
17. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Founding of Jamestown
Irrigation Canals
Emancipation Proclamation
Panama Canal
18. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
Commercial Agriculture
Age of Exploration & Colonization
exports
19. 1st written constitution
The Nullification Crisis
Magna Carta
Fund. Order of Conn.
Printing Press
20. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Mesoamerica civilizations
Civil War 1861-1865
Federalism
Land Ordinance of 1785
21. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Straits
95 Theses
Industrialized
Latitude
22. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Republicanism
15th Amendment
Representative democracy
Articles of Confederation
23. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
primary source
Cottage industry
tariff
Secularism
24. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Bill of Rights
Consent of the Governed
Limited Government
Suez Canal
25. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Republicanism
Free - enterprise economic system
Industrial Revolution
Federalism
26. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Scientific Revolution
Protestant Reformation
Federalist
Bill of Rights
27. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Capitalism/Market Economy
Declaration of Independence
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
28. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Straits of Hormuz
Limited Government
Magna Carta
Plessy v. Ferguson
29. To officially approve.
standard of living
level of development
The Senate
ratify
30. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Magnetic Compass
Traditional economy
Republic
Self Determination
31. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
urban
colonists
bias
32. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
Demographics
Magnetic Compass
Declaration of Independence
33. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Civil War 1861-1865
Traditional economy
14th Amendment
Republicanism
34. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Limited Government
Constitutional Conv.
Bill of Rights
Consent of the Governed
35. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
1776
Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
citizen
36. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Republicanism
Articles of Conf.
Federalist Papers
States Rights
37. These slow down movement/migration
George Washington
95 Theses
Barriers
Monroe doctrine
38. An official change to a law or document of government.
Nationalism
Schism
unalienable
amendment
39. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Representative Government
Self Determination
Renaissance
14th Amendment
40. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Force Bill
Bartering
41. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Separation of Powers .
cultural diffusion
Montesquieu
42. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Migration
ratify
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
43. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Industrial Revolution
Indulgences
era
amendment
44. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Hammurabi
Henry Ford
Labor force
rural
45. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Immigration patterns
Subsistence agriculture
Emancipation Proclamation
Inalienable/Unalienable
46. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Parliament
Direct Democracy
Latitude
House of Burgesses
47. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
McCullough v. Maryland
Oligarchy
Individual Rights
Communism/Command Economy
48. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
cultural diffusion
Factory System
1863 Emancipation Pro
Marbury v. Madison
49. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Unconstitutional
urban
Justinian
Federalist Papers
50. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
Schism
Suez Canal
Justinian