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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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1. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Magnetic Compass
urban
Anti - Federalist
Capitalism/Market Economy
2. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Immigration patterns
veto
House of Burgesses
Civil War
3. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Fertile Crescent
Straits of Hormuz
Plessy v. Ferguson
Subsistence agriculture
4. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Abraham Lincoln
Polytheism
Iron Curtain
unalienable
5. Mass production of food
Natural Barriers
Enlightenment
domestic
Commercial Agriculture
6. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Founding of Jamestown
ziggurats
Articles of Conf.
7. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Basic Needs
English Bill of Rights
Constitutional Conv.
Migration
8. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Subsistence economy
Cottage industry
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Checks and Balances
9. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
15th Amendment
Canals
John Locke
Republicanism
10. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
amendment
Draco
Longitude
Bubonic Plague
11. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Bubonic Plague
level of development
Cuneiform
Republicanism
12. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
States Rights
Mayflower Compact
Silk Road
Winston Churchill
13. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Famine
Limited Government
standard of living
Traditional economy
14. A government that elects its leaders
Republic
Taxation
Bubonic Plague
1787
15. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Magnetic Compass
Canals
Subsistence economy
1066
16. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
unalienable
Andean civilization
Civil War
Fertile Crescent
17. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Winston Churchill
Basic Needs
Mayflower Compact
English Bill of Rights
18. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Representative Democracy
Declaration of Indepen.
tariff
subsistence agriculture
19. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
George Washington
Republic
14th Amendment
Atlantic Slave Trade
20. Involving other countries
international
Popular Sovereignty
amendment
The Nullification Crisis
21. Curbed States' Rights
Separation of Powers .
market - oriented agriculture
Hammurabi
McCullough v. Maryland
22. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
trade
Secularism
Magna Carta
George Washington
23. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Checks and Balances
Atlantic Slave Trade
primary source
Cotton Gin
24. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Popular Sovereignty
international
Middle Ages
Declaration of Indepen.
25. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
95 Theses
Consent of the Governed
1791
26. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
House of Burgesses
Crusaders
Longitude
House of Burgesses
27. An official change to a law or document of government.
nullify
amendment
Federalism
English Bill of Rights
28. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
14th Amendment
Scientific Revolution
Infant Mortality
Representative Government
29. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Hammurabi
Indulgences
15th Amendment
Magna Carta
30. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
End of Reconstruction
Representative Democracy
English Bill of Rights
Suez Canal
31. Split in the church
Civil War
Straits of Hormuz
Anti - Federalists
Schism
32. 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.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Bubonic Plague
Middle Ages
1787
33. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Karl Marx
15th Amendment
bias
Irrigation Canals
34. King of England during the American Revolution.
tariff
1215
King George III
Civil War
35. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Inalienable/Unalienable
1791
suffrage
Fertile Crescent
36. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Printing Press
Federalist Papers
Civil War
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
37. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Adam Smith
environment
Thomas Jefferson
Commercial Agriculture
38. 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.
unalienable
suffrage
Articles of Confederation
Straits
39. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
King George III
Secularism
Subsistence agriculture
Age of Exploration & Colonization
40. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
standard of living
Constitutional Conv.
rural
Individual Rights
41. To officially approve.
Magna Carta
Draco
Plessy v. Ferguson
ratify
42. Pride in ones country
Suez Canal
Republicanism
Absolute Monarchy
Nationalism
43. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Printing Press
Middle Ages
Fertile Crescent
House of Burgesses
44. 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
Articles of Confederation
Popular Sovereignty
Magnetic Compass
45. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Age of Reason
Infant Mortality
suburban
environment
46. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Republicanism
Cottage industry
Mayflower Compact
Sub - Saharan Africa .
47. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
Bubonic Plague
rural
Land Ordinance of 1785
48. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
George Washington
1776
George Washington
Fertile Crescent
49. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Columbian Exchange
Popular Sovereignty
Latitude
Enlightenment
50. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Bill of Rights
The Nullification Crisis
Infant Mortality
Nullification Crisis
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