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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. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.






2. First representative assembly in American






3. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities






4. Mountains - deserts and oceans






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






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






7. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic






8. Economic thinker that developed communism






9. Belief in one god






10. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.






11. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.






12. Small - scale production requiring little capital.






13. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops






14. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas






15. Period in Europe that began after the fall of the Roman Empire Characterized by feudalism - Roman Catholic Church was the unifier of the age with more power than Kings/Lords






16. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness






17. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.






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






19. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.






20. 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.






21. Split in the church






22. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North






23. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.






24. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.






25. Government where the religious leader run the government






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






27. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.






28. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)






29. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government






30. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.






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






32. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.






33. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially






34. King/queen who has unlimited power






35. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.






36. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?






37. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.






38. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade






39. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast






40. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.






41. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.






42. A government that elects its leaders






43. Government ruled by a few powerful people






44. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.






45. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.






46. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'






47. Right of groups of people to create their own nation






48. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food






49. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.






50. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production