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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. King of England during the American Revolution.
Popular Sovereignty
Printing Press
King George III
Famine
2. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Checks and Balances
level of development
Nullification Crisis
colonists
3. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Barriers
Federalist Papers
Printing Press
English Bill of Rights
4. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Unconstitutional
Representative Democracy
international
environment
5. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Longitude
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Polytheism
Winston Churchill
6. Complaints
Cottage industry
grievance
Factory System
Sub - Saharan Africa .
7. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Atlantic Slave Trade
Republicanism
Bubonic Plague
13th Amendment
8. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
secondary source
Hammurabi
13th Amendment
Inalienable/Unalienable
9. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.
1787
subsistence agriculture
Protestant Reformation
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
10. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Straits of Hormuz
States Rights
veto
Monotheism
11. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Thomas Jefferson
Migration
Infant Mortality
Representative Democracy
12. Government where the religious leader run the government
Enlightenment
Constitutional Monarchy
Theocracy
Fund. Order of Conn.
13. Mountains - deserts and oceans
level of development
Consent of the Governed
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Natural Barriers
14. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Land Ordinance of 1785
1787
exports
grievance
15. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Cathedrals
Cuneiform
suburban
Bubonic Plague
16. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Republicanism
Land Ordinance of 1785
Protestant Reformation
Standard of living
17. King/queen who has unlimited power
Absolute Monarchy
Bill of Rights
Printing Press
End of Reconstruction
18. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
1863 Emancipation Pro
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Middle Ages
Self Determination
19. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Cuneiform
Consent of the Governed
Magna Carta
Henry Ford
20. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Republicanism
Constitutional Monarchy
Emancipation Proclamation
secondary source
21. Economic thinker that developed communism
1776
Karl Marx
English Bill of Rights
Barriers
22. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Unconstitutional
Crusaders
Absolute Monarchy
23. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Subsistence agriculture
nullify
13th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
24. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Consent of the Governed
Demographics
Middle Ages
Limited Government
25. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
13th Amendment
Republicanism
George Washington
Bubonic Plague
26. Tax on imports and exports.
Thomas Jefferson
tariff
Articles of Confederation
Founding of Jamestown
27. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Articles of Conf.
Iron Curtain
Representative democracy
Karl Marx
28. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Limited Government
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Infant Mortality
Communism/Command Economy
29. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
House of Burgesses
Adam Smith
veto
30. Split in the church
King George III
Republic
Popular Sovereignty
Schism
31. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Constitutional Conv.
Panama Canal
Articles of Confederation
imports
32. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Suez Canal
Nationalism
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
1787-1789
33. Officially ended the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Bartering
urban
34. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Mesoamerica civilizations
Republic
Bill of Rights
George Washington
35. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
U.S. Constitution
Life Expectancy
Constitutional Monarchy
1215
36. President of the United States during the Civil War
Absolute Monarchy
Urban
Andean civilization
Abraham Lincoln
37. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Sub - Saharan Africa .
1066
End of Reconstruction
Constitutional Conv.
38. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
13th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Self Determination
Middle Ages
39. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Representative democracy
Constitutional Monarchy
level of development
(naval) blockade
40. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
international
Humanism
Magna Carta
Sub - Saharan Africa .
41. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
15th Amendment
Popular Sovereignty
nullify
Marbury v. Madison
42. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
English Bill of Rights
Labor force
Barriers
Abe Lincoln
43. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
urban
Treaty of Paris 1783
Thomas Jefferson
(naval) blockade
44. All things that surround us.
environment
Enlightenment
era
Iron Curtain
45. 1st written constitution
Factory System
domestic
Fund. Order of Conn.
Subsistence agriculture
46. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Anti - Federalist
McCullough v. Maryland
Abe Lincoln
Mesoamerica civilizations
47. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Civil War 1861-1865
Communism/Command Economy
suburban
Republicanism
48. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Mesoamerica civilizations
Life Expectancy
Secularism
Cotton Gin
49. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Parliament
Straits of Hormuz
George Washington
Adam Smith
50. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
House of Burgesses
Checks and Balances
Urban
Straits