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






2. King of England during the American Revolution.






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






4. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws






5. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.






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






7. People who settle and live in a colony






8. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.






9. Established Judicial Review.






10. Complaints






11. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.






12. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.






13. 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






14. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies






15. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region






16. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)






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






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






19. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.






20. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government






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






22. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.






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






24. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.






25. King/queen who has unlimited power






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






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






28. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens






29. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places






30. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia






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






32. Upheld the idea of separated but equal






33. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.






34. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)






35. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation






36. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas






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






38. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches






39. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas






40. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.






41. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.






42. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government






43. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.






44. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism






45. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain






46. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.






47. All things that surround us.






48. 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.






49. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles






50. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.