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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Popular Sovereignty
1787-1789
George Washington
Cotton Gin
2. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
George Washington
Secularism
Silk Road
U.S. Constitution
3. Belief in one god
Anti - Federalist
Civil War 1861-1865
Industrial Revolution
Monotheism
4. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Monotheism
Age of Reason
Unconstitutional
Factory System
5. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Schism
unalienable
Federalism
Emancipation Proclamation
6. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
English Bill of Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785
Parliament
Republicanism
7. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Articles of Conf.
Declaration of Indepen.
Totalitarianism
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
8. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Indulgences
(naval) blockade
Self Determination
1791
9. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Suez Canal
Iron Curtain
Bubonic Plague
10. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Self Determination
Factory System
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Magna Carta
11. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Schism
Cottage industry
14th Amendment
Fertile Crescent
12. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
tariff
Emancipation Proclamation
Free - enterprise economic system
Fertile Crescent
13. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Natural Barriers
English Bill of Rights
Migration
Indulgences
14. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Civil War
Civil War
Brown v. Board of Edu.
15. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
nullify
Mayflower Compact
Checks and Balances
16. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Nullification Crisis
House of Burgesses
Panama Canal
17. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Cathedrals
Indulgences
Montesquieu
The Senate
18. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
English Bill of Rights
Basic Needs
Thomas Jefferson
Karl Marx
19. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Straits of Hormuz
Draco
Latitude
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
20. An official change to a law or document of government.
Abe Lincoln
imports
amendment
Latitude
21. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Limited Government
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Republicanism
Self Determination
22. Economic thinker that developed communism
Subsistence economy
Karl Marx
imports
colonists
23. Average income per person
federalism
Per Capita Income
market - oriented agriculture
Marbury v. Madison
24. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
Representative democracy
veto
Inalienable/Unalienable
25. Curbed States' Rights
Anti - Federalist
Separation of Powers
Panama Canal
McCullough v. Maryland
26. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
trade
cottage industry
Thomas Jefferson
Popular Sovereignty
27. Mass production of food
1787
Commercial Agriculture
Emancipation Proclamation
Montesquieu
28. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Thomas Jefferson
market - oriented agriculture
Unconstitutional
Magna Carta
29. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
nullify
30. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Anti - Federalists
level of development
English Bill of Rights
Longitude
31. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Checks and Balances
Theocracy
Civil War 1861-1865
Republicanism
32. Complaints
Draco
grievance
colonists
House of Burgesses
33. Established Judicial Review.
Justinian
Marbury v. Madison
Bill of Rights
tariff
34. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
U.S. Constitution
George Washington
Federalist
Abe Lincoln
35. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
Bill of Rights
Unconstitutional
Federalist Papers
36. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Popular Sovereignty
Oligarchy
Inalienable/Unalienable
John Locke
37. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Humanism
Latitude
Emancipation Proclamation
international
38. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
environment
Fertile Crescent
Thomas Jefferson
Atlantic Slave Trade
39. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Articles of Confederation
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Emancipation Proclamation
Republic
40. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
George Washington
urban
George Washington
Federalist Papers
41. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
(naval) blockade
Articles of Conf.
Checks and Balances
Enlightenment
42. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Per Capita Income
English Bill of Rights
standard of living
Industrial Revolution
43. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Magna Carta
Atlantic Slave Trade
primary source
Individual Rights
44. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Cathedrals
Articles of Confederation
14th Amendment
Factory System
45. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
15th Amendment
suburban
Cottage industry
Urban
46. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
International Trade
suffrage
standard of living
Straits of Hormuz
47. Tax on imports and exports.
tariff
Demographics
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalist Papers
48. Member of a country.
15th Amendment
Self Determination
ziggurats
citizen
49. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Separation of Powers
Abraham Lincoln
Nullification Crisis
Republic
50. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Unconstitutional
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Magnetic Compass
Civil War