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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
era
14th Amendment
suffrage
Articles of Confederation
2. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
trade
Age of Exploration & Colonization
subsistence agriculture
Adam Smith
3. 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
The Nullification Crisis
Communism/Command Economy
Republic
Enlightenment
4. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Direct Democracy
Theocracy
King George III
5. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Founding of Jamestown
English Bill of Rights
Industrial Revolution
Printing Press
6. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
ziggurats
Life Expectancy
Mayflower Compact
Bill of Rights
7. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Declaration of Independence
Protestant Reformation
Thomas Jefferson
Draco
8. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Subsistence agriculture
Republicanism
Treaty of Paris 1783
9. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
Longitude
Imperialism
English Bill of Rights
10. To officially approve.
Mesoamerica civilizations
Republicanism
Abraham Lincoln
ratify
11. A government that elects its leaders
Popular Sovereignty
Indulgences
Republic
End of Reconstruction
12. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Plessy v. Ferguson
Imperialism
Cotton Gin
Articles of Confederation
13. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Mayflower Compact
subsistence agriculture
1787-1789
15th Amendment
14. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Fertile Crescent
cultural diffusion
Emancipation Proclamation
Fund. Order of Conn.
15. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
suburban
limited government
Sub - Saharan Africa .
International Trade
16. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Montesquieu
Republicanism
Separation of Powers
Straits
17. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
limited government
environment
Republicanism
Brown v. Board of Edu.
18. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
level of development
Articles of Conf.
Federalist Papers
15th Amendment
19. Average income per person
Per Capita Income
Literacy Rate
Nationalism
Cathedrals
20. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Representative democracy
unalienable
Cathedrals
Karl Marx
21. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
cultural diffusion
Thomas Jefferson
bias
Industrial Revolution
22. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Natural Barriers
Separation of Powers .
colonists
Hammurabi
23. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
13th Amendment
1776
Fund. Order of Conn.
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
24. The System in the U.S. and other free market economies. It includes economic choice - competition - profit motive - and limited government regulation of the economy.
Crusaders
14th Amendment
International Trade
Free - enterprise economic system
25. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Humanism
Henry Ford
Thomas Jefferson
Communism/Command Economy
26. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
1215
suffrage
Enlightenment
unalienable
27. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
King George III
Adam Smith
ziggurats
Life Expectancy
28. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Renaissance
international
secondary source
Humanism
29. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Justinian
Henry Ford
Republicanism
John Locke
30. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Magna Carta
Standard of living
Subsistence economy
Life Expectancy
31. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
Theocracy
Scientific Revolution
Inalienable/Unalienable
32. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Montesquieu
citizen
Infant Mortality
international
33. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Secularism
Irrigation Canals
Capitalism/Market Economy
95 Theses
34. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Columbian Exchange
veto
Republicanism
Limited Government
35. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
level of development
Land Ordinance of 1785
Enlightenment
Standard of living
36. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Straits of Hormuz
Basic Needs
Adam Smith
secondary source
37. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Plessy v. Ferguson
subsistence agriculture
Thomas Jefferson
Emancipation Proclamation
38. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Articles of Conf.
Popular Sovereignty
Individual Rights
Bubonic Plague
39. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
International Trade
15th Amendment
Republic
Adam Smith
40. People who settle and live in a colony
Subsistence agriculture
Free - enterprise economic system
Commercial Agriculture
colonists
41. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Theocracy
States Rights
Winston Churchill
Representative democracy
42. King of England during the American Revolution.
King George III
rural
trade
Traditional economy
43. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Straits
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Fund. Order of Conn.
14th Amendment
44. 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.
Middle Ages
1787
federalism
Magna Carta
45. These slow down movement/migration
Hammurabi
Adam Smith
Printing Press
Barriers
46. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Crusaders
rural
veto
Immigration patterns
47. Having to do with one's own homeland
Republic
domestic
Anti - Federalists
subsistence agriculture
48. Member of a country.
limited government
Atlantic Slave Trade
Treaty of Paris 1783
citizen
49. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Popular Sovereignty
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Totalitarianism
Labor force
50. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Polytheism
Scientific Revolution
Monotheism
Thomas Jefferson