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TAKS 10th Grade World History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • 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. Upheld the idea of separated but equal






2. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe






3. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.






4. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.






5. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over






6. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.






7. Government where the religious leader run the government






8. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.






9. Member of a country.






10. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece






11. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture






12. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production






13. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights






14. Economic thinker that supported capitalism






15. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.






16. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North






17. 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.






18. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.






19. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops






20. First representative assembly in American






21. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally






22. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property






23. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.






24. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?






25. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation






26. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.






27. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness






28. Banned slavery throughout the nation.






29. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth






30. Average number of children that die by the age of 5






31. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water






32. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)






33. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast






34. People in a society that are willing and able to work






35. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government






36. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'






37. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.






38. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches






39. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.






40. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.






41. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu






42. King of England during the American Revolution.






43. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation






44. Small - scale production requiring little capital.






45. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.






46. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?






47. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.






48. Who opposed the Constitution?






49. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.






50. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code