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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. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
George Washington
unalienable
The Nullification Crisis
Mayflower Compact (1620)
2. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Articles of Confederation
Abe Lincoln
Oligarchy
Industrial Revolution
3. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Republicanism
1776
Subsistence agriculture
Constitutional Conv.
4. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
15th Amendment
Enlightenment
14th Amendment
Life Expectancy
5. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
level of development
King George III
environment
ratify
6. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Magna Carta
Unconstitutional
Cotton Gin
citizen
7. King/queen who has unlimited power
15th Amendment
Absolute Monarchy
Separation of Powers
Bubonic Plague
8. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
The Nullification Crisis
Polytheism
amendment
Standard of living
9. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Enlightenment
suburban
Free - enterprise economic system
Canals
10. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Montesquieu
Monotheism
Industrial Revolution
standard of living
11. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Cathedrals
George Washington
Canals
12. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
1863 Emancipation Pro
House of Burgesses
John Locke
Limited Government
13. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
McCullough v. Maryland
Republic
Fund. Order of Conn.
Thomas Jefferson
14. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
Silk Road
Mayflower Compact
Fertile Crescent
Irrigation Canals
15. 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
Anti - Federalists
level of development
1863 Emancipation Pro
16. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Subsistence agriculture
Industrialization
Separation of Powers
Bill of Rights
17. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
ziggurats
rural
Henry Ford
States Rights
18. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Individual Rights
Basic Needs
Straits
colonists
19. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Capitalism/Market Economy
unalienable
Bubonic Plague
Representative democracy
20. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Fertile Crescent
Thomas Jefferson
Hammurabi
Anti - Federalists
21. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Declaration of Independence
Civil War
Basic Needs
Indulgences
22. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Checks and Balances
Marbury v. Madison
Federalist Papers
14th Amendment
23. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
Silk Road
primary source
amendment
24. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Separation of Powers
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Longitude
25. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Limited Government
Famine
cottage industry
Plessy v. Ferguson
26. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Immigration patterns
Protestant Reformation
Mayflower Compact
15th Amendment
27. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Humanism
Andean civilization
Individual Rights
Age of Reason
28. People who settle and live in a colony
Winston Churchill
States Rights
colonists
Limited Government
29. King of England during the American Revolution.
Industrialization
Factory System
King George III
Representative Government
30. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Individual Rights
rural
31. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
ziggurats
Nullification Crisis
Per Capita Income
32. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Marbury v. Madison
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Columbian Exchange
33. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
nullify
Labor force
Scientific Revolution
George Washington
34. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Capitalism/Market Economy
era
35. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
Migration
Iron Curtain
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
36. 1st written constitution
95 Theses
Fund. Order of Conn.
Industrialization
Per Capita Income
37. People in a society that are willing and able to work
rural
Labor force
George Washington
Indulgences
38. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Straits
Land Ordinance of 1785
Standard of living
level of development
39. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Constitutional Conv.
Secularism
Canals
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
40. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Cuneiform
Checks and Balances
Civil War 1861-1865
Factory System
41. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Subsistence agriculture
Thomas Jefferson
cottage industry
Industrial Revolution
42. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Self Determination
Declaration of Independence
The Nullification Crisis
95 Theses
43. A government that elects its leaders
Federalism
Nationalism
Republic
Demographics
44. Pride in ones country
English Bill of Rights
Straits of Hormuz
Nationalism
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
45. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Humanism
Representative Democracy
English Bill of Rights
Representative Government
46. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Fund. Order of Conn.
Bill of Rights
Civil War
Scientific Revolution
47. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Migration
Canals
International Trade
Abe Lincoln
48. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
English Bill of Rights
Immigration patterns
House of Burgesses
49. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
14th Amendment
Age of Reason
Consent of the Governed
Individual Rights
50. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Mayflower Compact (1620)
14th Amendment
Civil War