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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. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Popular Sovereignty
Cottage industry
Natural Barriers
George Washington
2. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Republic
Emancipation Proclamation
Nullification Crisis
bias
3. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
nullify
Thomas Jefferson
secondary source
Per Capita Income
4. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Consent of the Governed
Hammurabi
Federalist
End of Reconstruction
5. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
George Washington
1787-1789
Free - enterprise economic system
King George III
6. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Age of Reason
Subsistence economy
Abraham Lincoln
Magnetic Compass
7. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Bubonic Plague
Factory System
George Washington
Articles of Conf.
8. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
U.S. Constitution
Federalism
Individual Rights
Monroe doctrine
9. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
imports
Columbian Exchange
Nationalism
Articles of Confederation
10. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Federalist Papers
Separation of Powers .
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Justinian
11. All things that surround us.
Direct Democracy
unalienable
environment
End of Reconstruction
12. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
Constitutional Conv.
Enlightenment
Bartering
13. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Indulgences
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Federalist
14. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Land Ordinance of 1785
Thomas Jefferson
Protestant Reformation
Totalitarianism
15. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Draco
English Bill of Rights
15th Amendment
Traditional economy
16. Average income per person
Per Capita Income
The Nullification Crisis
Migration
Magna Carta
17. 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
Winston Churchill
Columbian Exchange
Direct Democracy
George Washington
18. 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
Republic
George Washington
Individual Rights
19. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
environment
Bubonic Plague
Hammurabi
Unconstitutional
20. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
13th Amendment
(naval) blockade
14th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Edu.
21. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Winston Churchill
House of Burgesses
Anti - Federalist
federalism
22. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Monotheism
Abe Lincoln
Mayflower Compact (1620)
urban
23. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
Magna Carta
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Urban
24. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
secondary source
Plessy v. Ferguson
Henry Ford
Bartering
25. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Emancipation Proclamation
Irrigation Canals
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
13th Amendment
26. Complaints
Cathedrals
grievance
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Republicanism
27. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Federalist Papers
Famine
Founding of Jamestown
Unconstitutional
28. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
States Rights
Magnetic Compass
Federalist Papers
29. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Civil War
secondary source
Self Determination
Marbury v. Madison
30. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Winston Churchill
Humanism
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
ziggurats
31. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Plessy v. Ferguson
Abraham Lincoln
Industrial Revolution
Cotton Gin
32. Belief in many gods
Abraham Lincoln
Polytheism
Hammurabi
suburban
33. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Popular Sovereignty
market - oriented agriculture
1791
34. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
exports
Magna Carta
1791
Iron Curtain
35. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Magnetic Compass
Bubonic Plague
Printing Press
36. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
urban
Marbury v. Madison
Andean civilization
37. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
Longitude
Emancipation Proclamation
era
38. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
13th Amendment
Urban
Demographics
Popular Sovereignty
39. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
limited government
Checks and Balances
Articles of Confederation
Industrial Revolution
40. King of England during the American Revolution.
Urban
suburban
King George III
Thomas Jefferson
41. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Direct Democracy
Schism
Iron Curtain
ratify
42. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Infant Mortality
Anti - Federalists
Bubonic Plague
14th Amendment
43. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
unalienable
ratify
urban
Literacy Rate
44. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Representative Government
Magna Carta
Straits
45. Average number of years people live
suffrage
Life Expectancy
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Sub - Saharan Africa .
46. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
The Nullification Crisis
Winston Churchill
Sub - Saharan Africa .
suburban
47. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Subsistence economy
Suez Canal
Federalism
48. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Monotheism
Taxation
McCullough v. Maryland
level of development
49. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
1787
14th Amendment
Federalist
Commercial Agriculture
50. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
Barriers
Monroe doctrine
level of development