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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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1. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.






2. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.






3. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water






4. Pride in ones country






5. Upheld the idea of separated but equal






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






7. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code






8. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.






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






10. Banned slavery throughout the nation.






11. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region






12. 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.






13. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.






14. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.






15. Split in the church






16. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.






17. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.






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






19. To officially approve.






20. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches






21. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.






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






23. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food






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






25. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.






26. Trading goods or services for other goods or services






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






28. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation






29. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.






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






31. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.






32. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth






33. King of England during the American Revolution.






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






35. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)






36. Officially ended the American Revolution






37. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe






38. Established Judicial Review.






39. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government






40. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.






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






42. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.






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






44. Developed complex societies such as the Inca






45. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.






46. Mass production of food






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






48. Flat - horizontal lines on a map






49. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.






50. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc