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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Individual Rights
Renaissance
Migration
1791
2. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
The Nullification Crisis
Declaration of Independence
Polytheism
Mayflower Compact (1620)
3. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Declaration of Independence
Andean civilization
Brown v. Board of Edu.
International Trade
4. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Subsistence agriculture
Constitutional Conv.
Enlightenment
Per Capita Income
5. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Articles of Confederation
States Rights
Totalitarianism
Abe Lincoln
6. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Basic Needs
Abraham Lincoln
Renaissance
Bartering
7. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Consent of the Governed
Migration
8. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
1066
Cotton Gin
Cuneiform
George Washington
9. King/queen who has unlimited power
Absolute Monarchy
George Washington
Columbian Exchange
Printing Press
10. Tax on imports and exports.
Bartering
Justinian
tariff
Individual Rights
11. Curbed States' Rights
Limited Government
Famine
Federalist
McCullough v. Maryland
12. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
bias
Federalism
Industrialization
Cathedrals
13. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Emancipation Proclamation
Basic Needs
Magna Carta
Republic
14. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Thomas Jefferson
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Henry Ford
Infant Mortality
15. Belief in many gods
Iron Curtain
(naval) blockade
Polytheism
1215
16. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Brown v. Board of Edu.
John Locke
Anti - Federalist
Atlantic Slave Trade
17. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
grievance
Cuneiform
English Bill of Rights
primary source
18. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Limited Government
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Nullification Crisis
Representative Government
19. First representative assembly in American
citizen
George Washington
Secularism
House of Burgesses
20. A government that elects its leaders
1215
Subsistence economy
Republic
McCullough v. Maryland
21. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
amendment
Industrial Revolution
Atlantic Slave Trade
John Locke
22. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Natural Barriers
Abe Lincoln
Subsistence economy
Fertile Crescent
23. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
George Washington
Straits of Hormuz
Mesoamerica civilizations
Humanism
24. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Adam Smith
Unconstitutional
Silk Road
Articles of Conf.
25. Period in Europe that began after the fall of the Roman Empire Characterized by feudalism - Roman Catholic Church was the unifier of the age with more power than Kings/Lords
Middle Ages
Republicanism
Henry Ford
unalienable
26. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Scientific Revolution
Nullification Crisis
environment
Literacy Rate
27. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Anti - Federalists
1787
House of Burgesses
Irrigation Canals
28. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Monroe doctrine
U.S. Constitution
The Nullification Crisis
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
29. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Self Determination
Federalist Papers
Polytheism
Cottage industry
30. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
1066
Representative democracy
Fertile Crescent
Declaration of Indepen.
31. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Canals
Industrialization
Cotton Gin
13th Amendment
32. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Andean civilization
Industrialized
Plessy v. Ferguson
Parliament
33. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Thomas Jefferson
15th Amendment
Per Capita Income
Treaty of Paris 1783
34. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Limited Government
Parliament
citizen
35. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
14th Amendment
Cathedrals
citizen
13th Amendment
36. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Straits
1787-1789
Natural Barriers
Scientific Revolution
37. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Longitude
Constitutional Conv.
Articles of Confederation
Famine
38. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Standard of living
nullify
Andean civilization
Cotton Gin
39. Exchange of goods and services.
13th Amendment
Urban
Abraham Lincoln
trade
40. An official change to a law or document of government.
colonists
amendment
Totalitarianism
Straits of Hormuz
41. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Popular Sovereignty
Emancipation Proclamation
Parliament
Individual Rights
42. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Civil War
Representative Democracy
Cuneiform
Emancipation Proclamation
43. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
domestic
Nullification Crisis
unalienable
Bill of Rights
44. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Straits
cultural diffusion
13th Amendment
Anti - Federalist
45. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Magna Carta
1791
Civil War 1861-1865
Federalist
46. First organizing of 13 colonies.
1066
Articles of Conf.
Commercial Agriculture
Civil War
47. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Secularism
13th Amendment
48. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Abe Lincoln
Plessy v. Ferguson
Republicanism
Per Capita Income
49. 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.
Karl Marx
international
primary source
Humanism
50. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Treaty of Paris 1783
Limited Government
Imperialism
Abe Lincoln