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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. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Straits
Monotheism
cottage industry
Separation of Powers
2. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Republicanism
States Rights
1215
era
3. Split in the church
Straits
Schism
House of Burgesses
Inalienable/Unalienable
4. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Enlightenment
Straits
Henry Ford
Hammurabi
5. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Anti - Federalist
Fertile Crescent
Articles of Conf.
English Bill of Rights
6. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Thomas Jefferson
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Magnetic Compass
nullify
7. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
secondary source
suffrage
Schism
8. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Articles of Confederation
Standard of living
nullify
Popular Sovereignty
9. Modern Constitution
Emancipation Proclamation
Unconstitutional
Direct Democracy
U.S. Constitution
10. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
King George III
Capitalism/Market Economy
Industrial Revolution
Latitude
11. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
15th Amendment
market - oriented agriculture
Mayflower Compact
Demographics
12. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
international
Republicanism
Subsistence economy
Direct Democracy
13. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Hammurabi
Urban
secondary source
14. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
English Bill of Rights
Federalism
John Locke
Life Expectancy
15. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Fertile Crescent
Magna Carta
Bill of Rights
King George III
16. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Magnetic Compass
Industrialized
1215
15th Amendment
17. Member of a country.
Civil War
Founding of Jamestown
citizen
Enlightenment
18. Movement of people from on country or location to another
federalism
Bartering
13th Amendment
Migration
19. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
rural
Migration
Theocracy
Plessy v. Ferguson
20. 1st written constitution
Republicanism
George Washington
suffrage
Fund. Order of Conn.
21. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Abraham Lincoln
Magnetic Compass
Monroe doctrine
George Washington
22. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
subsistence agriculture
Hammurabi
Age of Reason
15th Amendment
23. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
14th Amendment
grievance
Checks and Balances
24. People who settle and live in a colony
Basic Needs
Demographics
colonists
Unconstitutional
25. Curbed States' Rights
Thomas Jefferson
Urban
McCullough v. Maryland
Panama Canal
26. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Adam Smith
domestic
Printing Press
Atlantic Slave Trade
27. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Andean civilization
Nationalism
Mayflower Compact
Republicanism
28. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
ziggurats
Winston Churchill
Individual Rights
Constitutional Conv.
29. 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.
Iron Curtain
Federalist Papers
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Force Bill
30. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Theocracy
House of Burgesses
era
Representative Government
31. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abe Lincoln
Mayflower Compact
nullify
George Washington
32. 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
Canals
Anti - Federalist
Mayflower Compact (1620)
nullify
33. Having to do with one's own homeland
Constitutional Monarchy
1215
Fund. Order of Conn.
domestic
34. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
federalism
Natural Barriers
Popular Sovereignty
35. Established Judicial Review.
Theocracy
Civil War 1861-1865
Marbury v. Madison
States Rights
36. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
Basic Needs
Articles of Confederation
Oligarchy
37. Pride in ones country
Andean civilization
Cotton Gin
Nationalism
Totalitarianism
38. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Age of Reason
Free - enterprise economic system
Articles of Confederation
13th Amendment
39. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
The Nullification Crisis
Communism/Command Economy
Suez Canal
Brown v. Board of Edu.
40. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Articles of Confederation
Literacy Rate
Latitude
Fertile Crescent
41. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Subsistence agriculture
Bartering
limited government
Mayflower Compact
42. Involving other countries
Articles of Conf.
Self Determination
Consent of the Governed
international
43. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
15th Amendment
Bartering
Traditional economy
Taxation
44. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Indulgences
Magna Carta
Immigration patterns
Emancipation Proclamation
45. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Unconstitutional
era
suffrage
rural
46. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Polytheism
Literacy Rate
Magna Carta
Nullification Crisis
47. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Age of Reason
1791
bias
Atlantic Slave Trade
48. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Enlightenment
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
bias
Federalist Papers
49. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Industrialization
limited government
amendment
Marbury v. Madison
50. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Barriers
Popular Sovereignty
Cathedrals