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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Andean civilization
Winston Churchill
Infant Mortality
Thomas Jefferson
2. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Fertile Crescent
Industrialization
Founding of Jamestown
Separation of Powers .
3. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Representative Government
Crusaders
urban
Basic Needs
4. Government where the religious leader run the government
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Theocracy
Bill of Rights
Monotheism
5. 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.
Articles of Confederation
Capitalism/Market Economy
Secularism
McCullough v. Maryland
6. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
Emancipation Proclamation
George Washington
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
7. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Longitude
Individual Rights
Infant Mortality
Henry Ford
8. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Consent of the Governed
Age of Reason
suburban
Mayflower Compact
9. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Popular Sovereignty
Mayflower Compact
Magna Carta
Latitude
10. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
House of Burgesses
Limited Government
Emancipation Proclamation
rural
11. People who settle and live in a colony
Individual Rights
Representative Government
secondary source
colonists
12. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
federalism
Adam Smith
(naval) blockade
George Washington
13. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
International Trade
George Washington
1791
Age of Exploration & Colonization
14. President of the United States during the Civil War
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Abraham Lincoln
15th Amendment
tariff
15. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Immigration patterns
Monotheism
Ben Franklin
Labor force
16. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Mayflower Compact
veto
(naval) blockade
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
17. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Printing Press
1215
Monroe doctrine
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
18. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
colonists
Standard of living
House of Burgesses
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
19. 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
Indulgences
Fertile Crescent
20. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
exports
Force Bill
Fund. Order of Conn.
Demographics
21. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
suffrage
George Washington
Articles of Conf.
States Rights
22. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Bill of Rights
Federalism
1066
23. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
colonists
Factory System
Thomas Jefferson
Iron Curtain
24. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
English Bill of Rights
Crusaders
Civil War
1787-1789
25. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Industrialized
Totalitarianism
Subsistence economy
English Bill of Rights
26. Modern Constitution
U.S. Constitution
Per Capita Income
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Andean civilization
27. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
secondary source
Mesoamerica civilizations
Monotheism
Limited Government
28. A government that elects its leaders
Republic
cottage industry
Longitude
Andean civilization
29. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Popular Sovereignty
domestic
Checks and Balances
Plessy v. Ferguson
30. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Ben Franklin
Parliament
Cuneiform
1776
31. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Imperialism
tariff
Declaration of Independence
Latitude
32. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Demographics
George Washington
Magnetic Compass
Migration
33. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Bartering
U.S. Constitution
Plessy v. Ferguson
States Rights
34. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Absolute Monarchy
Protestant Reformation
English Bill of Rights
Cottage industry
35. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Henry Ford
International Trade
The Senate
36. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Abraham Lincoln
Age of Reason
Oligarchy
Constitutional Monarchy
37. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
The Nullification Crisis
citizen
Bubonic Plague
Federalist
38. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
English Bill of Rights
Immigration patterns
15th Amendment
Nationalism
39. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Individual Rights
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Cottage industry
Bill of Rights
40. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Communism/Command Economy
English Bill of Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785
Plessy v. Ferguson
41. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Draco
Enlightenment
Cottage industry
Traditional economy
42. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Polytheism
Cuneiform
Treaty of Paris 1783
Plessy v. Ferguson
43. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Thomas Jefferson
Justinian
Adam Smith
Immigration patterns
44. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Bartering
Thomas Jefferson
Representative Government
domestic
45. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Republic
Force Bill
Bill of Rights
46. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Individual Rights
citizen
Monotheism
Urban
47. 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.
John Locke
primary source
Panama Canal
bias
48. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Mayflower Compact
Mesoamerica civilizations
English Bill of Rights
Straits
49. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Founding of Jamestown
1215
Articles of Conf.
Civil War
50. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Latitude
Articles of Conf.
Polytheism