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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. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Magna Carta
Fund. Order of Conn.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Federalist Papers
2. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Declaration of Independence
tariff
Free - enterprise economic system
Industrialization
3. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Humanism
Draco
Monotheism
Marbury v. Madison
4. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
Anti - Federalist
Schism
The Senate
5. Established Judicial Review.
Montesquieu
1776
Marbury v. Madison
Columbian Exchange
6. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Representative Government
Articles of Confederation
Commercial Agriculture
Mayflower Compact
7. People who settle and live in a colony
Anti - Federalist
Checks and Balances
colonists
1787-1789
8. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
market - oriented agriculture
nullify
Abraham Lincoln
Articles of Confederation
9. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Limited Government
nullify
urban
Bill of Rights
10. Belief in one god
Republicanism
colonists
Enlightenment
Monotheism
11. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Popular Sovereignty
Commercial Agriculture
Mesoamerica civilizations
1863 Emancipation Pro
12. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
1776
Communism/Command Economy
Karl Marx
Schism
13. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Emancipation Proclamation
Free - enterprise economic system
Longitude
citizen
14. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Oligarchy
Henry Ford
Mesoamerica civilizations
Land Ordinance of 1785
15. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Industrial Revolution
1787
Taxation
16. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
End of Reconstruction
English Bill of Rights
Direct Democracy
urban
17. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Republic
Representative democracy
suburban
Middle Ages
18. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
cultural diffusion
Subsistence agriculture
End of Reconstruction
House of Burgesses
19. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Renaissance
Representative Government
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Secularism
20. Making goods out of the home
1863 Emancipation Pro
Cottage industry
1776
Constitutional Conv.
21. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Theocracy
Founding of Jamestown
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Popular Sovereignty
22. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Cuneiform
Popular Sovereignty
amendment
Inalienable/Unalienable
23. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Industrialized
Infant Mortality
Suez Canal
Representative Government
24. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Factory System
Articles of Conf.
Adam Smith
Civil War 1861-1865
25. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Individual Rights
International Trade
Marbury v. Madison
Constitutional Monarchy
26. Complaints
Justinian
Winston Churchill
Separation of Powers .
grievance
27. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
Draco
Infant Mortality
Columbian Exchange
28. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Republicanism
Secularism
Cotton Gin
limited government
29. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Literacy Rate
Canals
Panama Canal
Federalist Papers
30. These slow down movement/migration
Bill of Rights
Barriers
Fertile Crescent
The Nullification Crisis
31. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1787-1789
Constitutional Monarchy
Magnetic Compass
Middle Ages
32. Exchange of goods and services.
trade
Anti - Federalists
Commercial Agriculture
Cathedrals
33. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Capitalism/Market Economy
primary source
King George III
Thomas Jefferson
34. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Republicanism
Mesoamerica civilizations
Winston Churchill
15th Amendment
35. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Enlightenment
Totalitarianism
Winston Churchill
English Bill of Rights
36. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
Theocracy
Unconstitutional
subsistence agriculture
37. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Articles of Conf.
Labor force
Enlightenment
Mayflower Compact
38. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
ratify
Iron Curtain
Articles of Conf.
39. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Henry Ford
Protestant Reformation
The Senate
Parliament
40. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Abraham Lincoln
suffrage
standard of living
Inalienable/Unalienable
41. A written plan of government for the colonies created a weak league of 13 nearly independent states in 1777. The 1st Constitution of the U.S.
Mayflower Compact
Republicanism
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
42. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
limited government
13th Amendment
citizen
Founding of Jamestown
43. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Federalist
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Senate
Humanism
44. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Magna Carta
Subsistence agriculture
Self Determination
Founding of Jamestown
45. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Longitude
Monotheism
The Nullification Crisis
suburban
46. Belief in many gods
States Rights
Free - enterprise economic system
Polytheism
Anti - Federalists
47. A government that elects its leaders
Anti - Federalist
level of development
Adam Smith
Republic
48. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Unconstitutional
Barriers
Force Bill
Popular Sovereignty
49. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
The Nullification Crisis
1215
Unconstitutional
Canals
50. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Representative Government
Cotton Gin
Declaration of Indepen.
Atlantic Slave Trade