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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Limited the power of the King in 1215
primary source
Magna Carta
Bill of Rights
Self Determination
2. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Capitalism/Market Economy
international
bias
14th Amendment
3. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Magna Carta
Bill of Rights
Commercial Agriculture
Mayflower Compact
4. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Longitude
suffrage
Migration
Winston Churchill
5. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Crusaders
Famine
Representative Government
Adam Smith
6. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Suez Canal
international
1215
Mayflower Compact (1620)
7. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
The Nullification Crisis
Articles of Confederation
unalienable
1863 Emancipation Pro
8. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Age of Reason
Civil War
Secularism
bias
9. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Schism
Mayflower Compact
Declaration of Independence
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
10. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
George Washington
Hammurabi
John Locke
13th Amendment
11. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
15th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
Protestant Reformation
Imperialism
12. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Consent of the Governed
Mayflower Compact
Industrialized
13. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
Atlantic Slave Trade
Mesoamerica civilizations
urban
14. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Republic
Industrialization
rural
13th Amendment
15. Exchange of goods and services.
trade
rural
suffrage
Magnetic Compass
16. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
grievance
Enlightenment
Totalitarianism
17. Government where the religious leader run the government
Thomas Jefferson
Federalist Papers
Theocracy
Capitalism/Market Economy
18. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Articles of Confederation
Federalist
bias
Magna Carta
19. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Absolute Monarchy
Indulgences
Federalism
Constitutional Conv.
20. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Anti - Federalist
international
Constitutional Monarchy
1776
21. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Federalist Papers
Winston Churchill
Constitutional Monarchy
Bartering
22. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Atlantic Slave Trade
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Famine
subsistence agriculture
23. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Indulgences
Popular Sovereignty
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
rural
24. 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
Totalitarianism
Communism/Command Economy
Separation of Powers .
15th Amendment
25. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Totalitarianism
Republicanism
Famine
Land Ordinance of 1785
26. Average income per person
standard of living
Winston Churchill
Per Capita Income
limited government
27. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Magnetic Compass
Factory System
Mesoamerica civilizations
standard of living
28. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
14th Amendment
Republicanism
Fund. Order of Conn.
95 Theses
29. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Columbian Exchange
Popular Sovereignty
Atlantic Slave Trade
international
30. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Commercial Agriculture
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Straits
Articles of Conf.
31. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Per Capita Income
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Mesoamerica civilizations
15th Amendment
32. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Parliament
Urban
Emancipation Proclamation
Panama Canal
33. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
suburban
Indulgences
Columbian Exchange
veto
34. Mountains - deserts and oceans
14th Amendment
Civil War
Barriers
Natural Barriers
35. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
veto
Federalist
Longitude
Civil War 1861-1865
36. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Federalist Papers
Nullification Crisis
Nationalism
15th Amendment
37. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
standard of living
Cottage industry
Checks and Balances
urban
38. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Crusaders
Latitude
Limited Government
Federalist
39. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Hammurabi
Magna Carta
Industrialization
40. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
Individual Rights
Thomas Jefferson
Individual Rights
41. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Popular Sovereignty
Sub - Saharan Africa .
13th Amendment
Ben Franklin
42. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Consent of the Governed
Bubonic Plague
Subsistence economy
Free - enterprise economic system
43. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
George Washington
(naval) blockade
Secularism
Hammurabi
44. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
Basic Needs
Republic
subsistence agriculture
45. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
13th Amendment
Inalienable/Unalienable
1066
Declaration of Indepen.
46. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Marbury v. Madison
Declaration of Independence
Monroe doctrine
Checks and Balances
47. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Labor force
John Locke
(naval) blockade
Constitutional Monarchy
48. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Marbury v. Madison
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Federalism
Thomas Jefferson
49. Average number of years people live
Enlightenment
Life Expectancy
secondary source
14th Amendment
50. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Federalist
Totalitarianism
Winston Churchill
environment