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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. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
federalism
citizen
Industrialized
1066
2. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Panama Canal
Industrial Revolution
Unconstitutional
Popular Sovereignty
3. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Emancipation Proclamation
Limited Government
Oligarchy
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
4. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
amendment
Hammurabi
Abraham Lincoln
Panama Canal
5. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
Life Expectancy
Treaty of Paris 1783
Sub - Saharan Africa .
6. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
John Locke
14th Amendment
1215
Emancipation Proclamation
7. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
1776
Irrigation Canals
imports
Bill of Rights
8. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Mayflower Compact
Polytheism
Unconstitutional
Latitude
9. Exchange of goods and services.
Bill of Rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Capitalism/Market Economy
trade
10. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
federalism
Fertile Crescent
1066
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
11. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Traditional economy
Suez Canal
George Washington
House of Burgesses
12. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
limited government
Suez Canal
Mesoamerica civilizations
13. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
urban
exports
Totalitarianism
suburban
14. Split in the church
Andean civilization
Schism
Panama Canal
Straits of Hormuz
15. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Fertile Crescent
End of Reconstruction
1776
Enlightenment
16. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Bartering
Basic Needs
Cuneiform
14th Amendment
17. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Articles of Confederation
ratify
Enlightenment
Inalienable/Unalienable
18. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Thomas Jefferson
States Rights
(naval) blockade
Federalism
19. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Panama Canal
standard of living
Magnetic Compass
Industrial Revolution
20. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Separation of Powers
95 Theses
colonists
Limited Government
21. Having to do with one's own homeland
House of Burgesses
Federalism
Magna Carta
domestic
22. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Factory System
grievance
Direct Democracy
1787-1789
23. A government that elects its leaders
Force Bill
Thomas Jefferson
15th Amendment
Republic
24. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
Barriers
Famine
Marbury v. Madison
25. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Karl Marx
Plessy v. Ferguson
Treaty of Paris 1783
Migration
26. Involving other countries
domestic
international
Life Expectancy
Unconstitutional
27. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Magnetic Compass
Literacy Rate
Enlightenment
14th Amendment
28. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
End of Reconstruction
Ben Franklin
Renaissance
Migration
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.
Force Bill
standard of living
Polytheism
International Trade
30. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Civil War
Monotheism
standard of living
Industrialization
31. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
English Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
Thomas Jefferson
32. Pride in ones country
Subsistence agriculture
Oligarchy
Nationalism
Consent of the Governed
33. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Abe Lincoln
Mesoamerica civilizations
Marbury v. Madison
34. People who settle and live in a colony
Emancipation Proclamation
Industrialization
Thomas Jefferson
colonists
35. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
1776
Iron Curtain
Protestant Reformation
Basic Needs
36. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Justinian
Civil War 1861-1865
Force Bill
Iron Curtain
37. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
Industrialized
Articles of Confederation
Representative Government
38. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Urban
1787
Thomas Jefferson
13th Amendment
39. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
ziggurats
colonists
English Bill of Rights
40. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Force Bill
nullify
Bill of Rights
trade
41. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
Magnetic Compass
primary source
42. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
amendment
Marbury v. Madison
Subsistence agriculture
15th Amendment
43. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Declaration of Independence
Communism/Command Economy
Thomas Jefferson
Traditional economy
44. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
1066
Federalist Papers
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
U.S. Constitution
45. 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
Standard of living
Thomas Jefferson
Anti - Federalist
Panama Canal
46. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Separation of Powers
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Industrialized
Land Ordinance of 1785
47. 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
Fund. Order of Conn.
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
48. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Cathedrals
level of development
Nullification Crisis
1066
49. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
George Washington
(naval) blockade
English Bill of Rights
Marbury v. Madison
50. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Mayflower Compact
Natural Barriers
Straits
Mayflower Compact (1620)