SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
TAKS 10th Grade World History
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
taks
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Monotheism
Humanism
Absolute Monarchy
Famine
2. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
1787-1789
Popular Sovereignty
cultural diffusion
3. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
primary source
Natural Barriers
Monroe doctrine
4. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
George Washington
international
Totalitarianism
Montesquieu
5. Split in the church
Andean civilization
subsistence agriculture
Schism
Republicanism
6. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Per Capita Income
Anti - Federalists
George Washington
suffrage
7. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
colonists
Thomas Jefferson
Traditional economy
Representative Democracy
8. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
market - oriented agriculture
Federalism
nullify
Articles of Confederation
9. Tax on imports and exports.
Totalitarianism
13th Amendment
tariff
primary source
10. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Barriers
Separation of Powers
Parliament
14th Amendment
11. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Crusaders
Parliament
unalienable
Bubonic Plague
12. These slow down movement/migration
Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers .
cultural diffusion
Barriers
13. King/queen who has unlimited power
14th Amendment
Absolute Monarchy
Nationalism
George Washington
14. 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
Draco
Magna Carta
1066
15. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Industrialization
Republic
Civil War 1861-1865
Irrigation Canals
16. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Subsistence agriculture
(naval) blockade
rural
Republic
17. Established Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
Monotheism
English Bill of Rights
Enlightenment
18. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Karl Marx
Subsistence economy
Land Ordinance of 1785
Industrial Revolution
19. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
14th Amendment
Individual Rights
Bill of Rights
Federalism
20. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Mayflower Compact
George Washington
urban
Inalienable/Unalienable
21. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Demographics
Anti - Federalists
Enlightenment
Traditional economy
22. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Fund. Order of Conn.
Winston Churchill
Articles of Confederation
1791
23. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
1791
Oligarchy
nullify
limited government
24. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
grievance
Standard of living
Capitalism/Market Economy
25. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Articles of Confederation
Inalienable/Unalienable
amendment
Direct Democracy
26. 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.
Force Bill
1863 Emancipation Pro
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Urban
27. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
Famine
Demographics
1787-1789
28. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Industrialized
Totalitarianism
Henry Ford
Federalist Papers
29. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Limited Government
Republicanism
Unconstitutional
Enlightenment
30. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
subsistence agriculture
Silk Road
Republicanism
14th Amendment
31. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Separation of Powers .
secondary source
urban
House of Burgesses
32. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
Constitutional Conv.
Oligarchy
George Washington
33. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Force Bill
unalienable
Founding of Jamestown
Magnetic Compass
34. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Migration
1787
Montesquieu
35. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Industrial Revolution
Individual Rights
13th Amendment
Abe Lincoln
36. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Articles of Confederation
Popular Sovereignty
Humanism
Absolute Monarchy
37. Modern Constitution
Demographics
nullify
Constitutional Monarchy
U.S. Constitution
38. First representative assembly in American
Factory System
Justinian
House of Burgesses
McCullough v. Maryland
39. 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.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
1776
Checks and Balances
unalienable
40. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Iron Curtain
Monroe doctrine
Individual Rights
Imperialism
41. Average income per person
Per Capita Income
Hammurabi
Representative Government
Enlightenment
42. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
King George III
George Washington
Subsistence agriculture
Popular Sovereignty
43. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Civil War
Plessy v. Ferguson
13th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
44. To officially approve.
Mayflower Compact
ratify
imports
Industrial Revolution
45. 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
Plessy v. Ferguson
Atlantic Slave Trade
Communism/Command Economy
Cathedrals
46. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Articles of Confederation
13th Amendment
Crusaders
Abraham Lincoln
47. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
13th Amendment
federalism
Thomas Jefferson
Civil War
48. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Middle Ages
Theocracy
Secularism
Canals
49. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Federalism
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Age of Reason
suburban
50. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Cuneiform
Popular Sovereignty
Imperialism
Natural Barriers