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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Magna Carta
Thomas Jefferson
1215
Cotton Gin
2. Government ruled by a few powerful people
urban
1791
Montesquieu
Oligarchy
3. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
secondary source
Federalism
Mayflower Compact (1620)
1787-1789
4. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Hammurabi
Renaissance
Federalism
5. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
federalism
Civil War
Representative Government
6. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Articles of Confederation
Limited Government
Magna Carta
secondary source
7. Tax on imports and exports.
Taxation
Articles of Conf.
imports
tariff
8. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Unconstitutional
Communism/Command Economy
1787-1789
9. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Justinian
Industrialized
Anti - Federalists
1776
10. Mass production of food
Commercial Agriculture
Life Expectancy
Industrialization
Literacy Rate
11. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Abraham Lincoln
Republic
The Senate
House of Burgesses
12. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
market - oriented agriculture
Taxation
Fund. Order of Conn.
English Bill of Rights
13. Involving other countries
international
Straits
Ben Franklin
13th Amendment
14. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Printing Press
Declaration of Independence
95 Theses
15. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Republicanism
Force Bill
Theocracy
16. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Bartering
Individual Rights
John Locke
Crusaders
17. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Canals
Nullification Crisis
Separation of Powers .
Civil War
18. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
States Rights
Individual Rights
1787
19. 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
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Anti - Federalist
Crusaders
20. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
ziggurats
amendment
15th Amendment
Andean civilization
21. 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.
Representative Democracy
Theocracy
1066
1787
22. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Silk Road
Cottage industry
Crusaders
George Washington
23. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Checks and Balances
Longitude
Age of Reason
24. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Enlightenment
colonists
Canals
25. Officially ended the American Revolution
Silk Road
Treaty of Paris 1783
grievance
federalism
26. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Bill of Rights
13th Amendment
Representative Government
End of Reconstruction
27. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
1776
Latitude
Direct Democracy
Indulgences
28. President of the United States during the Civil War
Infant Mortality
95 Theses
King George III
Abraham Lincoln
29. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Republic
Age of Reason
Enlightenment
30. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
exports
cultural diffusion
Force Bill
Straits of Hormuz
31. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Direct Democracy
1215
Bubonic Plague
Labor force
32. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Civil War
Republic
Draco
Standard of living
33. These slow down movement/migration
ziggurats
Printing Press
Barriers
suburban
34. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Panama Canal
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Cathedrals
1791
35. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Columbian Exchange
Republicanism
Secularism
Straits of Hormuz
36. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Enlightenment
Traditional economy
trade
Limited Government
37. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
nullify
urban
The Senate
Constitutional Conv.
38. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
subsistence agriculture
Industrial Revolution
House of Burgesses
Demographics
39. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Winston Churchill
Literacy Rate
Popular Sovereignty
Anti - Federalist
40. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
Representative Democracy
urban
federalism
Columbian Exchange
41. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
King George III
The Senate
Canals
Age of Exploration & Colonization
42. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
suffrage
1066
grievance
international
43. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Articles of Confederation
domestic
Self Determination
Industrialization
44. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Absolute Monarchy
Winston Churchill
Thomas Jefferson
Industrialized
45. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
1787-1789
Urban
Individual Rights
46. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Unconstitutional
Subsistence economy
George Washington
Bill of Rights
47. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
suffrage
1791
Iron Curtain
Plessy v. Ferguson
48. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
rural
Abe Lincoln
Secularism
Bartering
49. People who settle and live in a colony
Migration
Brown v. Board of Edu.
colonists
Scientific Revolution
50. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
era
Bill of Rights
Adam Smith
Constitutional Monarchy