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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
George Washington
Articles of Confederation
Cathedrals
2. 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.
Urban
veto
primary source
Popular Sovereignty
3. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
federalism
Abraham Lincoln
suburban
Cotton Gin
4. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
1066
Nullification Crisis
Schism
Columbian Exchange
5. First organizing of 13 colonies.
(naval) blockade
1215
Articles of Conf.
Enlightenment
6. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
urban
Thomas Jefferson
bias
95 Theses
7. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Secularism
Andean civilization
Anti - Federalist
End of Reconstruction
8. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Force Bill
Federalist Papers
Demographics
era
9. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Abe Lincoln
Popular Sovereignty
Urban
Demographics
10. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Latitude
George Washington
Republicanism
cottage industry
11. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Monotheism
Henry Ford
Fund. Order of Conn.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
12. President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
amendment
Republic
ziggurats
13. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Industrial Revolution
Protestant Reformation
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Subsistence agriculture
14. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Hammurabi
standard of living
Checks and Balances
International Trade
15. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Checks and Balances
market - oriented agriculture
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Industrial Revolution
16. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
level of development
Canals
13th Amendment
States Rights
17. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Nationalism
Longitude
Monroe doctrine
English Bill of Rights
18. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.
Scientific Revolution
Age of Reason
domestic
Force Bill
19. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Thomas Jefferson
Straits of Hormuz
Inalienable/Unalienable
cultural diffusion
20. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
trade
Republic
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
21. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Inalienable/Unalienable
Founding of Jamestown
Consent of the Governed
22. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
secondary source
Migration
rural
23. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Schism
exports
English Bill of Rights
Totalitarianism
24. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Straits of Hormuz
1066
Declaration of Independence
25. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Atlantic Slave Trade
Direct Democracy
Secularism
Suez Canal
26. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Protestant Reformation
veto
Literacy Rate
Age of Exploration & Colonization
27. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Bill of Rights
market - oriented agriculture
Subsistence agriculture
1791
28. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
veto
Irrigation Canals
Emancipation Proclamation
29. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Cathedrals
Taxation
federalism
Secularism
30. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
1776
Enlightenment
Crusaders
Land Ordinance of 1785
31. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
Articles of Confederation
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
1787
32. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Separation of Powers
international
Bartering
limited government
33. Established Judicial Review.
urban
Marbury v. Madison
Articles of Conf.
Absolute Monarchy
34. Economic thinker that developed communism
English Bill of Rights
Karl Marx
era
Representative Government
35. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Thomas Jefferson
Constitutional Monarchy
Bartering
1787-1789
36. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
Fertile Crescent
suffrage
limited government
Checks and Balances
37. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
grievance
ziggurats
Republic
Sub - Saharan Africa .
38. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Canals
Natural Barriers
Federalism
39. Limited the power of the King in 1215
George Washington
Magna Carta
Marbury v. Madison
era
40. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Capitalism/Market Economy
Articles of Conf.
Nullification Crisis
Brown v. Board of Edu.
41. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Protestant Reformation
environment
cultural diffusion
Cuneiform
42. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Standard of living
Bill of Rights
Straits of Hormuz
43. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Panama Canal
Infant Mortality
grievance
Absolute Monarchy
44. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Immigration patterns
Federalism
environment
Thomas Jefferson
45. This is also referred to as a city
rural
King George III
Bartering
Urban
46. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Industrialized
15th Amendment
Famine
Age of Reason
47. 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
colonists
Industrial Revolution
Articles of Confederation
48. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Constitutional Conv.
Taxation
Monotheism
Andean civilization
49. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
King George III
international
Separation of Powers .
Protestant Reformation
50. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
suffrage
1787-1789
Republic
Fund. Order of Conn.