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TAKS 10th Grade World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Making goods out of the home
Checks and Balances
Indulgences
Republic
Cottage industry
2. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Marbury v. Madison
Nullification Crisis
Literacy Rate
Abe Lincoln
3. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Thomas Jefferson
1791
standard of living
Anti - Federalists
4. Having industries for the machine production of goods
secondary source
unalienable
suffrage
Industrialized
5. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
colonists
suburban
Mayflower Compact
Treaty of Paris 1783
6. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Bill of Rights
colonists
Basic Needs
Communism/Command Economy
7. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Monroe doctrine
Declaration of Indepen.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
8. 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
Declaration of Indepen.
Magna Carta
Enlightenment
9. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Individual Rights
15th Amendment
Karl Marx
Magnetic Compass
10. 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
English Bill of Rights
Basic Needs
Middle Ages
nullify
11. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
colonists
Popular Sovereignty
13th Amendment
Industrial Revolution
12. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Latitude
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Secularism
English Bill of Rights
13. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Imperialism
Free - enterprise economic system
Unconstitutional
Parliament
14. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Urban
John Locke
Separation of Powers .
Civil War
15. An official change to a law or document of government.
Commercial Agriculture
15th Amendment
amendment
Unconstitutional
16. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Constitutional Conv.
secondary source
Checks and Balances
Anti - Federalists
17. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Oligarchy
Middle Ages
Andean civilization
Articles of Confederation
18. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
George Washington
Bill of Rights
1787-1789
Marbury v. Madison
19. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Civil War
Indulgences
Straits of Hormuz
Unconstitutional
20. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
U.S. Constitution
Mesoamerica civilizations
21. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
Infant Mortality
Iron Curtain
House of Burgesses
22. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Republicanism
Thomas Jefferson
Representative democracy
bias
23. Exchange of goods and services.
Subsistence agriculture
nullify
trade
Nullification Crisis
24. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Marbury v. Madison
Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
Cotton Gin
25. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Crusaders
Fund. Order of Conn.
Constitutional Monarchy
Representative Government
26. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
bias
level of development
Mesoamerica civilizations
Federalist Papers
27. Who opposed the Constitution?
Silk Road
Anti - Federalists
Famine
Migration
28. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Barriers
House of Burgesses
Standard of living
Literacy Rate
29. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
colonists
rural
Standard of living
Straits
30. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
14th Amendment
Abe Lincoln
Parliament
31. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Migration
Mesoamerica civilizations
Secularism
market - oriented agriculture
32. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
King George III
Panama Canal
Civil War 1861-1865
Theocracy
33. Tax on imports and exports.
tariff
Mesoamerica civilizations
limited government
Inalienable/Unalienable
34. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Abraham Lincoln
Draco
ziggurats
35. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
1787-1789
Federalist
nullify
Separation of Powers
36. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Basic Needs
bias
limited government
15th Amendment
37. Average income per person
Thomas Jefferson
limited government
Canals
Per Capita Income
38. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
international
bias
Cathedrals
1787
39. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Ben Franklin
Basic Needs
Civil War
Commercial Agriculture
40. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
1787-1789
Humanism
Representative Government
Capitalism/Market Economy
41. 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.
Free - enterprise economic system
15th Amendment
Land Ordinance of 1785
federalism
42. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Middle Ages
Justinian
Henry Ford
era
43. All things that surround us.
95 Theses
environment
Civil War
Articles of Confederation
44. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Separation of Powers
Suez Canal
1215
Bill of Rights
45. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Magna Carta
Columbian Exchange
trade
Cathedrals
46. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Consent of the Governed
Longitude
(naval) blockade
Separation of Powers
47. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
Irrigation Canals
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Columbian Exchange
48. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Atlantic Slave Trade
cottage industry
Federalism
Columbian Exchange
49. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
U.S. Constitution
Immigration patterns
Infant Mortality
Individual Rights
50. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Industrialized
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
Civil War