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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. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Articles of Conf.
era
Migration
Traditional economy
2. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
bias
John Locke
Demographics
urban
3. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Subsistence economy
Magnetic Compass
Age of Reason
Representative Democracy
4. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Straits of Hormuz
States Rights
5. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Fertile Crescent
Standard of living
Bubonic Plague
1791
6. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Emancipation Proclamation
Indulgences
13th Amendment
7. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Hammurabi
Suez Canal
Checks and Balances
Immigration patterns
8. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
U.S. Constitution
Mayflower Compact
Individual Rights
Checks and Balances
9. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Infant Mortality
Henry Ford
Republicanism
(naval) blockade
10. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Middle Ages
Separation of Powers .
English Bill of Rights
Republic
11. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Communism/Command Economy
Magnetic Compass
Limited Government
Andean civilization
12. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
citizen
cultural diffusion
primary source
Founding of Jamestown
13. An official change to a law or document of government.
Enlightenment
amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Silk Road
14. All things that surround us.
Bill of Rights
environment
Articles of Confederation
ziggurats
15. Curbed States' Rights
Cottage industry
McCullough v. Maryland
domestic
Fertile Crescent
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
Anti - Federalist
Inalienable/Unalienable
Representative democracy
Ben Franklin
17. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
U.S. Constitution
House of Burgesses
(naval) blockade
International Trade
18. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Articles of Confederation
Federalist
Infant Mortality
Mayflower Compact
19. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Demographics
States Rights
Separation of Powers .
Commercial Agriculture
20. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Cuneiform
Silk Road
1215
Limited Government
21. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Straits of Hormuz
Republicanism
Fertile Crescent
Subsistence economy
22. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Indulgences
Henry Ford
Imperialism
Natural Barriers
23. Economic thinker that developed communism
unalienable
1791
1215
Karl Marx
24. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Land Ordinance of 1785
domestic
Constitutional Conv.
Bill of Rights
25. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
George Washington
Silk Road
ratify
Crusaders
26. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Adam Smith
1863 Emancipation Pro
citizen
John Locke
27. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Popular Sovereignty
Draco
McCullough v. Maryland
Indulgences
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.
Capitalism/Market Economy
cultural diffusion
Industrialized
1787
29. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Factory System
Founding of Jamestown
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Inalienable/Unalienable
30. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Scientific Revolution
Mayflower Compact
Abraham Lincoln
31. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
The Nullification Crisis
Humanism
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Suez Canal
32. Average number of years people live
Literacy Rate
Industrialization
Federalism
Life Expectancy
33. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
environment
Representative Government
Demographics
Mayflower Compact
34. Member of a country.
market - oriented agriculture
King George III
citizen
Suez Canal
35. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Silk Road
Articles of Conf.
Totalitarianism
Henry Ford
36. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Protestant Reformation
Renaissance
Commercial Agriculture
colonists
37. 1st written constitution
13th Amendment
Magna Carta
1787
Fund. Order of Conn.
38. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
secondary source
Nationalism
Canals
Bartering
39. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Unconstitutional
federalism
Monroe doctrine
95 Theses
40. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Montesquieu
14th Amendment
amendment
Civil War
41. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Infant Mortality
Protestant Reformation
Scientific Revolution
Inalienable/Unalienable
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.
The Senate
Articles of Confederation
Force Bill
Limited Government
43. Having to do with one's own homeland
Standard of living
Constitutional Conv.
suburban
domestic
44. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Magna Carta
95 Theses
Latitude
Mesoamerica civilizations
45. Government where the religious leader run the government
Theocracy
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Civil War 1861-1865
Magna Carta
46. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Industrialized
Middle Ages
Humanism
47. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Iron Curtain
Nullification Crisis
Monotheism
Magna Carta
48. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
subsistence agriculture
Civil War
Longitude
49. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Civil War
15th Amendment
Magna Carta
Atlantic Slave Trade
50. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
unalienable
Totalitarianism
Urban
level of development