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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
ziggurats
Civil War
Thomas Jefferson
trade
2. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
exports
Age of Exploration & Colonization
urban
George Washington
3. Involving other countries
Magna Carta
Urban
international
cultural diffusion
4. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Anti - Federalists
Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
Hammurabi
5. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
rural
Representative Government
Magna Carta
Latitude
6. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
veto
Checks and Balances
Federalism
Straits
7. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Industrial Revolution
Popular Sovereignty
imports
Articles of Confederation
8. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Crusaders
colonists
Capitalism/Market Economy
9. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
The Nullification Crisis
secondary source
Silk Road
suburban
10. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Protestant Reformation
15th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Natural Barriers
11. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Declaration of Independence
Individual Rights
Andean civilization
international
12. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Industrialized
Articles of Confederation
Enlightenment
nullify
13. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Sub - Saharan Africa .
international
Abe Lincoln
14. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
Columbian Exchange
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Humanism
15. Limited the power of the King in 1215
1863 Emancipation Pro
Magna Carta
Life Expectancy
Immigration patterns
16. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
14th Amendment
Mayflower Compact
13th Amendment
Immigration patterns
17. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Separation of Powers .
suburban
Straits of Hormuz
Articles of Confederation
18. Mass production of food
Schism
international
Commercial Agriculture
Industrial Revolution
19. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Mayflower Compact
Subsistence economy
Declaration of Indepen.
Longitude
20. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Industrialized
Republicanism
cultural diffusion
trade
21. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
The Nullification Crisis
Anti - Federalists
Thomas Jefferson
22. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Suez Canal
Bill of Rights
Age of Reason
Abraham Lincoln
23. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Industrialized
Representative Government
Cathedrals
Checks and Balances
24. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Brown v. Board of Edu.
imports
English Bill of Rights
95 Theses
25. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
domestic
nullify
Declaration of Independence
Taxation
26. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
1787-1789
grievance
Magnetic Compass
Migration
27. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Thomas Jefferson
Checks and Balances
Canals
Bill of Rights
28. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Canals
95 Theses
Bill of Rights
1066
29. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Checks and Balances
Renaissance
The Senate
Self Determination
30. 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.
13th Amendment
King George III
Articles of Confederation
Plessy v. Ferguson
31. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Canals
urban
McCullough v. Maryland
15th Amendment
32. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
14th Amendment
English Bill of Rights
Federalist
33. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Nationalism
Polytheism
Life Expectancy
End of Reconstruction
34. These slow down movement/migration
Scientific Revolution
trade
Justinian
Barriers
35. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Civil War 1861-1865
Draco
Fertile Crescent
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
36. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
tariff
John Locke
Federalism
Standard of living
37. Complaints
Magna Carta
McCullough v. Maryland
grievance
Civil War
38. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Cottage industry
English Bill of Rights
Imperialism
Andean civilization
39. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
Protestant Reformation
Cathedrals
Subsistence economy
40. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Federalist
14th Amendment
Mayflower Compact
Checks and Balances
41. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Declaration of Indepen.
Mesoamerica civilizations
Plessy v. Ferguson
42. All things that surround us.
The Senate
Indulgences
environment
House of Burgesses
43. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
13th Amendment
Irrigation Canals
Limited Government
Articles of Confederation
44. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Popular Sovereignty
Inalienable/Unalienable
English Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
45. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
John Locke
Montesquieu
Declaration of Indepen.
Federalist
46. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Draco
15th Amendment
Magna Carta
Secularism
47. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Winston Churchill
George Washington
48. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Cotton Gin
Magnetic Compass
Scientific Revolution
Mayflower Compact
49. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Abe Lincoln
Magna Carta
Straits of Hormuz
Separation of Powers .
50. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Industrial Revolution
Emancipation Proclamation
Latitude
Cottage industry