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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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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. 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.
Checks and Balances
Natural Barriers
Nationalism
Bubonic Plague
2. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
14th Amendment
Canals
international
subsistence agriculture
3. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
1776
Straits of Hormuz
Capitalism/Market Economy
Separation of Powers
4. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Urban
15th Amendment
Representative Democracy
Parliament
5. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Articles of Confederation
Popular Sovereignty
bias
citizen
6. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Natural Barriers
Magna Carta
Anti - Federalists
Brown v. Board of Edu.
7. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
urban
Nullification Crisis
Checks and Balances
market - oriented agriculture
8. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
(naval) blockade
1215
Urban
Immigration patterns
9. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Monroe doctrine
Communism/Command Economy
Land Ordinance of 1785
Bill of Rights
10. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Fund. Order of Conn.
Emancipation Proclamation
1776
imports
11. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
Magnetic Compass
House of Burgesses
Civil War 1861-1865
12. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
cultural diffusion
Latitude
Factory System
13. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
The Senate
Inalienable/Unalienable
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Standard of living
14. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
The Nullification Crisis
tariff
House of Burgesses
Natural Barriers
15. People who settle and live in a colony
Fund. Order of Conn.
colonists
Cathedrals
Monotheism
16. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
suburban
Crusaders
Nationalism
Republic
17. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Schism
Subsistence economy
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
18. Complaints
grievance
suburban
federalism
nullify
19. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Anti - Federalist
Totalitarianism
Atlantic Slave Trade
End of Reconstruction
20. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Force Bill
citizen
Adam Smith
secondary source
21. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
1791
Hammurabi
Middle Ages
22. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Thomas Jefferson
Adam Smith
Industrial Revolution
Magna Carta
23. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
English Bill of Rights
13th Amendment
Enlightenment
Commercial Agriculture
24. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
1066
Self Determination
Columbian Exchange
25. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Migration
Republicanism
Karl Marx
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
26. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Treaty of Paris 1783
English Bill of Rights
13th Amendment
States Rights
27. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Straits of Hormuz
market - oriented agriculture
15th Amendment
Civil War 1861-1865
28. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Republicanism
Constitutional Conv.
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
29. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Nullification Crisis
urban
Checks and Balances
Standard of living
30. People in a society that are willing and able to work
English Bill of Rights
Labor force
13th Amendment
Demographics
31. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Printing Press
Thomas Jefferson
Crusaders
Mesoamerica civilizations
32. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
McCullough v. Maryland
Self Determination
End of Reconstruction
Adam Smith
33. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Articles of Confederation
15th Amendment
Mayflower Compact (1620)
limited government
34. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Limited Government
Self Determination
Magna Carta
35. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Renaissance
Immigration patterns
13th Amendment
Magna Carta
36. These slow down movement/migration
Printing Press
The Nullification Crisis
(naval) blockade
Barriers
37. 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
Nationalism
Fund. Order of Conn.
Anti - Federalist
environment
38. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Abraham Lincoln
1215
Totalitarianism
Federalist Papers
39. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Land Ordinance of 1785
Checks and Balances
colonists
veto
40. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Mayflower Compact
14th Amendment
Individual Rights
cultural diffusion
41. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Columbian Exchange
exports
15th Amendment
Federalist
42. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
veto
Panama Canal
Oligarchy
ziggurats
43. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Migration
Mayflower Compact
Factory System
Marbury v. Madison
44. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Per Capita Income
Direct Democracy
amendment
Nullification Crisis
45. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Mesoamerica civilizations
Age of Exploration & Colonization
veto
Articles of Confederation
46. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Representative Government
Traditional economy
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Unconstitutional
47. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Checks and Balances
U.S. Constitution
Irrigation Canals
English Bill of Rights
48. Separate is not equal in public Schools
imports
Bartering
Brown v. Board of Edu.
13th Amendment
49. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Winston Churchill
nullify
Civil War
King George III
50. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
Suez Canal
Mayflower Compact
13th Amendment