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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. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Henry Ford
Printing Press
House of Burgesses
Articles of Confederation
2. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
The Senate
Infant Mortality
era
Federalist
3. Curbed States' Rights
Age of Reason
Thomas Jefferson
McCullough v. Maryland
Humanism
4. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Famine
Henry Ford
Basic Needs
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
5. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
citizen
1863 Emancipation Pro
era
Barriers
6. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Silk Road
Henry Ford
Limited Government
Renaissance
7. King/queen who has unlimited power
Federalist Papers
Cathedrals
Absolute Monarchy
Abraham Lincoln
8. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Mayflower Compact
Ben Franklin
Cottage industry
Canals
9. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Federalist Papers
1863 Emancipation Pro
Straits of Hormuz
U.S. Constitution
10. Pride in ones country
Literacy Rate
Nationalism
Suez Canal
market - oriented agriculture
11. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Articles of Confederation
Federalism
Fertile Crescent
imports
12. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
Cotton Gin
King George III
Enlightenment
13. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Federalism
Traditional economy
grievance
citizen
14. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Karl Marx
15th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Life Expectancy
15. Tax on imports and exports.
imports
Consent of the Governed
secondary source
tariff
16. 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.
English Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Cathedrals
Industrial Revolution
17. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
13th Amendment
suburban
King George III
Crusaders
18. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Communism/Command Economy
amendment
Constitutional Conv.
1791
19. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Marbury v. Madison
13th Amendment
Industrial Revolution
13th Amendment
20. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
McCullough v. Maryland
Bill of Rights
George Washington
Sub - Saharan Africa .
21. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Thomas Jefferson
Direct Democracy
Demographics
George Washington
22. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Federalism
trade
Declaration of Independence
1776
23. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
federalism
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Communism/Command Economy
Cotton Gin
24. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
Silk Road
Nullification Crisis
Magna Carta
House of Burgesses
25. Average number of years people live
English Bill of Rights
Republicanism
limited government
Life Expectancy
26. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Nationalism
95 Theses
Civil War
ziggurats
27. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
suburban
Emancipation Proclamation
amendment
Middle Ages
28. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Founding of Jamestown
Separation of Powers
cottage industry
29. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Direct Democracy
Marbury v. Madison
cottage industry
Basic Needs
30. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
House of Burgesses
Land Ordinance of 1785
Abraham Lincoln
Republicanism
31. Established Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
Republic
Ben Franklin
King George III
32. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Civil War 1861-1865
Marbury v. Madison
Free - enterprise economic system
1787-1789
33. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
domestic
Republicanism
Natural Barriers
34. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
13th Amendment
Cuneiform
Brown v. Board of Edu.
King George III
35. King of England during the American Revolution.
1787-1789
Federalist
King George III
Immigration patterns
36. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Direct Democracy
Winston Churchill
Canals
37. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Infant Mortality
Straits of Hormuz
Civil War
38. Officially ended the American Revolution
market - oriented agriculture
Treaty of Paris 1783
Civil War
Inalienable/Unalienable
39. These slow down movement/migration
Constitutional Monarchy
Barriers
Inalienable/Unalienable
Treaty of Paris 1783
40. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
nullify
Adam Smith
Henry Ford
Industrialization
41. Mass production of food
Federalism
Commercial Agriculture
Silk Road
Bill of Rights
42. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
15th Amendment
Checks and Balances
Abraham Lincoln
1776
43. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Age of Reason
Enlightenment
Industrialized
44. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
ziggurats
primary source
Bill of Rights
45. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
15th Amendment
Traditional economy
urban
Schism
46. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
95 Theses
Taxation
Republicanism
Latitude
47. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Federalist Papers
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Limited Government
Monroe doctrine
48. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Scientific Revolution
Federalist Papers
Articles of Confederation
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
49. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
level of development
Karl Marx
Sub - Saharan Africa .
trade
50. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
Marbury v. Madison
Fund. Order of Conn.
Suez Canal