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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. 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
Industrialization
Communism/Command Economy
Emancipation Proclamation
Age of Exploration & Colonization
2. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Atlantic Slave Trade
Thomas Jefferson
King George III
Declaration of Indepen.
3. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Bill of Rights
environment
bias
imports
4. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Individual Rights
Longitude
Bill of Rights
5. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Direct Democracy
Representative Government
Industrial Revolution
exports
6. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
Age of Reason
Barriers
Hammurabi
7. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
End of Reconstruction
ziggurats
primary source
ratify
8. 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
Magnetic Compass
Separation of Powers .
Columbian Exchange
Enlightenment
9. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
tariff
Marbury v. Madison
ziggurats
Communism/Command Economy
10. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Fertile Crescent
Popular Sovereignty
Thomas Jefferson
Absolute Monarchy
11. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Republic
1787-1789
Theocracy
John Locke
12. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
cultural diffusion
Popular Sovereignty
Age of Reason
Renaissance
13. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Mayflower Compact
English Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Factory System
14. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Representative Democracy
13th Amendment
Printing Press
States Rights
15. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
George Washington
market - oriented agriculture
Declaration of Independence
16. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
The Nullification Crisis
Popular Sovereignty
Secularism
Republicanism
17. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Commercial Agriculture
Emancipation Proclamation
1787-1789
Andean civilization
18. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Representative Democracy
End of Reconstruction
George Washington
Representative Government
19. Economic thinker that developed communism
Plessy v. Ferguson
Infant Mortality
Justinian
Karl Marx
20. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Thomas Jefferson
Unconstitutional
Mayflower Compact
Individual Rights
21. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Limited Government
Civil War
Plessy v. Ferguson
Printing Press
22. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Founding of Jamestown
Declaration of Indepen.
Articles of Confederation
veto
23. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Magnetic Compass
International Trade
Thomas Jefferson
Age of Exploration & Colonization
24. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
Silk Road
Subsistence agriculture
Civil War
Schism
25. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
95 Theses
Consent of the Governed
urban
Abraham Lincoln
26. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
(naval) blockade
Cuneiform
Inalienable/Unalienable
suburban
27. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
amendment
Articles of Confederation
Popular Sovereignty
Thomas Jefferson
28. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Theocracy
Subsistence economy
Cathedrals
29. 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.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
John Locke
30. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
14th Amendment
Federalism
Unconstitutional
Mayflower Compact (1620)
31. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Federalist Papers
Ben Franklin
Magnetic Compass
cultural diffusion
32. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Limited Government
Republic
Ben Franklin
Latitude
33. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Mayflower Compact
Taxation
Printing Press
Andean civilization
34. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Industrial Revolution
Bubonic Plague
15th Amendment
35. To officially approve.
Articles of Conf.
King George III
ratify
tariff
36. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Land Ordinance of 1785
Commercial Agriculture
Bill of Rights
international
37. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Force Bill
Enlightenment
House of Burgesses
Anti - Federalist
38. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Magna Carta
1066
Factory System
Plessy v. Ferguson
39. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Industrial Revolution
Emancipation Proclamation
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Canals
40. Tax on imports and exports.
Republic
Federalism
tariff
Andean civilization
41. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Constitutional Monarchy
limited government
Articles of Conf.
Cuneiform
42. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Per Capita Income
Industrial Revolution
Separation of Powers .
Columbian Exchange
43. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abe Lincoln
Federalist
Emancipation Proclamation
Separation of Powers .
44. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Communism/Command Economy
House of Burgesses
Henry Ford
Infant Mortality
45. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Magna Carta
Columbian Exchange
Representative Democracy
Nullification Crisis
46. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Civil War 1861-1865
Anti - Federalist
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Montesquieu
47. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
market - oriented agriculture
14th Amendment
unalienable
cottage industry
48. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Printing Press
trade
era
limited government
49. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Brown v. Board of Edu.
standard of living
Natural Barriers
Renaissance
50. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
House of Burgesses
Civil War 1861-1865
Enlightenment
Cuneiform