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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. Movement of people from on country or location to another






2. Relating to the city - of or in a city.






3. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.






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






5. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers






6. Belief in many gods






7. Routes of human movement from one area into another.






8. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)






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






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






11. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible






12. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.






13. An official change to a law or document of government.






14. All things that surround us.






15. Curbed States' Rights






16. Opposed to the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government and not enough to the states. They also wanted individual rights protected






17. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded






18. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.






19. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc






20. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed






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






22. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon






23. Economic thinker that developed communism






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






25. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled






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






27. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.






28. 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.






29. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers






30. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe






31. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.






32. Average number of years people live






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






34. Member of a country.






35. First organizing of 13 colonies.






36. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans






37. 1st written constitution






38. Trading goods or services for other goods or services






39. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.






40. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery






41. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights






42. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.






43. Having to do with one's own homeland






44. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec






45. Government where the religious leader run the government






46. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government






47. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.






48. People who settle and live in a colony






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






50. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany