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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Canals
Panama Canal
Industrial Revolution
Articles of Conf.
2. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Marbury v. Madison
Unconstitutional
Bubonic Plague
Immigration patterns
3. Average number of years people live
Life Expectancy
Treaty of Paris 1783
ratify
ziggurats
4. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Industrialized
Humanism
Declaration of Independence
Plessy v. Ferguson
5. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Magna Carta
Famine
(naval) blockade
14th Amendment
6. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
15th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
unalienable
Natural Barriers
7. King/queen who has unlimited power
Straits of Hormuz
Anti - Federalists
Age of Reason
Absolute Monarchy
8. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
limited government
Fertile Crescent
rural
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
9. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Magna Carta
Literacy Rate
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Ben Franklin
10. Curbed States' Rights
Urban
rural
Magna Carta
McCullough v. Maryland
11. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Federalism
(naval) blockade
Totalitarianism
imports
12. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Enlightenment
Life Expectancy
Civil War
Sub - Saharan Africa .
13. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Checks and Balances
Montesquieu
Enlightenment
Founding of Jamestown
14. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Republic
Popular Sovereignty
Immigration patterns
Cuneiform
15. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
English Bill of Rights
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
Parliament
16. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Articles of Conf.
Humanism
unalienable
Individual Rights
17. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Magna Carta
Silk Road
Bill of Rights
1215
18. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Representative Democracy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Civil War 1861-1865
Civil War
19. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
House of Burgesses
Capitalism/Market Economy
Popular Sovereignty
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
20. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
1066
Nullification Crisis
Indulgences
1776
21. President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Land Ordinance of 1785
Labor force
Oligarchy
22. King of England during the American Revolution.
Basic Needs
grievance
Hammurabi
King George III
23. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Constitutional Monarchy
Subsistence agriculture
Secularism
international
24. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
13th Amendment
Limited Government
Standard of living
Industrialized
25. Exchange of goods and services.
Standard of living
Life Expectancy
Declaration of Independence
trade
26. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Representative democracy
domestic
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Separation of Powers .
27. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
George Washington
Articles of Confederation
1776
Representative democracy
28. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Industrial Revolution
Representative Government
federalism
Draco
29. 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.
13th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
1787
Labor force
30. This is also referred to as a city
suburban
standard of living
Urban
Land Ordinance of 1785
31. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Subsistence agriculture
Representative democracy
Migration
Separation of Powers
32. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Founding of Jamestown
standard of living
Atlantic Slave Trade
Plessy v. Ferguson
33. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Ben Franklin
Republicanism
Industrial Revolution
Checks and Balances
34. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Henry Ford
Adam Smith
tariff
Life Expectancy
35. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
1787-1789
Subsistence agriculture
Bubonic Plague
era
36. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
bias
Longitude
Cotton Gin
Abe Lincoln
37. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
Absolute Monarchy
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Monroe doctrine
38. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Anti - Federalist
Monotheism
Federalism
39. Average income per person
Taxation
Per Capita Income
House of Burgesses
English Bill of Rights
40. To officially approve.
ratify
Columbian Exchange
Federalism
Monotheism
41. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
veto
Indulgences
cultural diffusion
House of Burgesses
42. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Adam Smith
15th Amendment
Bartering
federalism
43. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Monroe doctrine
15th Amendment
suburban
Abe Lincoln
44. 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.
1863 Emancipation Pro
federalism
Articles of Confederation
Civil War
45. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
Commercial Agriculture
amendment
Cuneiform
46. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.
trade
Separation of Powers .
Force Bill
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
47. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
1787-1789
domestic
Theocracy
Winston Churchill
48. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
Panama Canal
environment
Cotton Gin
49. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Justinian
Marbury v. Madison
Emancipation Proclamation
limited government
50. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
Suez Canal
Taxation
Industrial Revolution