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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
15th Amendment
Declaration of Indepen.
Marbury v. Madison
Federalist Papers
2. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1787-1789
Latitude
Articles of Confederation
Andean civilization
3. Mass production of food
Andean civilization
Ben Franklin
Theocracy
Commercial Agriculture
4. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
George Washington
bias
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Representative democracy
5. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Monroe doctrine
1215
George Washington
Protestant Reformation
6. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Treaty of Paris 1783
Thomas Jefferson
Representative Government
Silk Road
7. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Factory System
Thomas Jefferson
Federalist
Nullification Crisis
8. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Panama Canal
Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
subsistence agriculture
9. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Federalist
Justinian
1863 Emancipation Pro
Columbian Exchange
10. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Individual Rights
Secularism
international
Thomas Jefferson
11. Mountains - deserts and oceans
States Rights
Natural Barriers
McCullough v. Maryland
15th Amendment
12. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Constitutional Conv.
Demographics
Age of Exploration & Colonization
imports
13. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Cuneiform
Magnetic Compass
Consent of the Governed
subsistence agriculture
14. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Urban
Age of Reason
Andean civilization
Bill of Rights
15. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Straits of Hormuz
Popular Sovereignty
Republic
Taxation
16. 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
Scientific Revolution
secondary source
13th Amendment
17. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Sub - Saharan Africa .
urban
U.S. Constitution
18. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Thomas Jefferson
Popular Sovereignty
Republic
Popular Sovereignty
19. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Indulgences
Straits
Andean civilization
standard of living
20. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Constitutional Monarchy
English Bill of Rights
Cotton Gin
Longitude
21. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
market - oriented agriculture
Andean civilization
Civil War
Montesquieu
22. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
George Washington
Winston Churchill
Basic Needs
Straits
23. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Labor force
English Bill of Rights
Plessy v. Ferguson
Renaissance
24. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Emancipation Proclamation
Subsistence agriculture
Winston Churchill
25. 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
Bubonic Plague
15th Amendment
Polytheism
Columbian Exchange
26. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Justinian
14th Amendment
Schism
1776
27. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Demographics
Individual Rights
Federalism
Bill of Rights
28. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Communism/Command Economy
Magna Carta
Schism
Cottage industry
29. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
Cottage industry
Taxation
federalism
30. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Subsistence agriculture
International Trade
era
rural
31. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
14th Amendment
secondary source
market - oriented agriculture
U.S. Constitution
32. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
1791
Abraham Lincoln
Iron Curtain
Direct Democracy
33. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
international
Constitutional Monarchy
Self Determination
Magnetic Compass
34. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Humanism
Factory System
Thomas Jefferson
Silk Road
35. 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.
Labor force
primary source
Secularism
Subsistence agriculture
36. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
grievance
Representative Government
Cuneiform
Inalienable/Unalienable
37. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
unalienable
Longitude
Parliament
Straits
38. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
trade
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Parliament
Suez Canal
39. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
House of Burgesses
Magna Carta
Cuneiform
international
40. President of the United States during the Civil War
McCullough v. Maryland
Cottage industry
Abraham Lincoln
15th Amendment
41. Complaints
grievance
Republic
U.S. Constitution
Emancipation Proclamation
42. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Anti - Federalist
The Nullification Crisis
Representative democracy
citizen
43. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Cotton Gin
John Locke
Imperialism
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
44. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Subsistence economy
Federalism
Nullification Crisis
Articles of Confederation
45. Exchange of goods and services.
Draco
1066
trade
Panama Canal
46. 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
Marbury v. Madison
Middle Ages
federalism
limited government
47. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Oligarchy
International Trade
limited government
Free - enterprise economic system
48. 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
Communism/Command Economy
1787
Consent of the Governed
Magna Carta
49. A government that elects its leaders
Republic
Oligarchy
standard of living
Mayflower Compact
50. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Life Expectancy
nullify
Inalienable/Unalienable
Subsistence agriculture