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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. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Enlightenment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Separation of Powers
suffrage
2. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Urban
Civil War 1861-1865
Popular Sovereignty
Traditional economy
3. King/queen who has unlimited power
Bill of Rights
Representative democracy
Separation of Powers .
Absolute Monarchy
4. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Life Expectancy
trade
Montesquieu
13th Amendment
5. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Mayflower Compact
Industrialization
Draco
suburban
6. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Individual Rights
Federalist Papers
trade
Representative Democracy
7. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
13th Amendment
Longitude
veto
Abe Lincoln
8. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Consent of the Governed
Standard of living
urban
Theocracy
9. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
King George III
Cathedrals
Iron Curtain
Printing Press
10. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Cotton Gin
Andean civilization
Civil War
Canals
11. These slow down movement/migration
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Barriers
Representative Government
Monroe doctrine
12. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Bubonic Plague
Monotheism
Schism
Migration
13. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Absolute Monarchy
ziggurats
Henry Ford
The Nullification Crisis
14. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
exports
Protestant Reformation
Cathedrals
Humanism
15. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Republicanism
Bartering
Federalist Papers
Representative democracy
16. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Representative Democracy
limited government
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Unconstitutional
17. Belief in one god
Monotheism
Popular Sovereignty
rural
standard of living
18. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Plessy v. Ferguson
English Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
19. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Subsistence agriculture
tariff
Hammurabi
rural
20. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
rural
Longitude
Magna Carta
George Washington
21. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Age of Reason
Declaration of Independence
Industrialized
Suez Canal
22. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Migration
Magnetic Compass
George Washington
Natural Barriers
23. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
Panama Canal
15th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
24. Member of a country.
citizen
market - oriented agriculture
George Washington
Civil War 1861-1865
25. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Mesoamerica civilizations
Industrialized
Separation of Powers
colonists
26. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Declaration of Indepen.
Subsistence agriculture
Draco
95 Theses
27. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
McCullough v. Maryland
ratify
Abe Lincoln
Monroe doctrine
28. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Bill of Rights
Montesquieu
imports
Republicanism
29. Economic thinker that developed communism
Migration
Karl Marx
Iron Curtain
rural
30. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Traditional economy
Infant Mortality
1776
Separation of Powers
31. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Articles of Conf.
Consent of the Governed
Adam Smith
Fund. Order of Conn.
32. Average number of years people live
1787-1789
Life Expectancy
Silk Road
Commercial Agriculture
33. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Consent of the Governed
Magna Carta
cottage industry
Traditional economy
34. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Theocracy
level of development
Magna Carta
Polytheism
35. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
subsistence agriculture
Federalism
colonists
Magnetic Compass
36. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
House of Burgesses
Declaration of Independence
Natural Barriers
End of Reconstruction
37. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Civil War
Republic
Articles of Confederation
Fertile Crescent
38. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Panama Canal
Subsistence economy
John Locke
ratify
39. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
King George III
Infant Mortality
Plessy v. Ferguson
Industrialization
40. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Migration
Columbian Exchange
Imperialism
era
41. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
14th Amendment
Monroe doctrine
Nullification Crisis
1787-1789
42. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Mayflower Compact
Mesoamerica civilizations
Humanism
Representative Government
43. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
The Senate
Federalist Papers
suffrage
Age of Reason
44. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Atlantic Slave Trade
Land Ordinance of 1785
1215
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
45. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Hammurabi
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Individual Rights
Abe Lincoln
46. 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
1776
Industrialized
Industrialization
47. Complaints
Cuneiform
Cottage industry
grievance
13th Amendment
48. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
exports
cottage industry
Cathedrals
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
49. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Panama Canal
cottage industry
Marbury v. Madison
Federalism
50. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1787-1789
Latitude
Emancipation Proclamation
Brown v. Board of Edu.