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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. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
Republicanism
McCullough v. Maryland
Individual Rights
2. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Straits
Magna Carta
Self Determination
Civil War 1861-1865
3. Exchange of goods and services.
Atlantic Slave Trade
The Nullification Crisis
George Washington
trade
4. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
colonists
Republic
Sub - Saharan Africa .
15th Amendment
5. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
exports
Andean civilization
Latitude
1863 Emancipation Pro
6. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
Declaration of Independence
1863 Emancipation Pro
Federalist Papers
7. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
Thomas Jefferson
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Industrialization
8. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Commercial Agriculture
subsistence agriculture
Straits of Hormuz
Articles of Confederation
9. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
limited government
imports
Justinian
Imperialism
10. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Fertile Crescent
Limited Government
Industrial Revolution
Subsistence agriculture
11. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
McCullough v. Maryland
Bill of Rights
Ben Franklin
Urban
12. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Commercial Agriculture
1863 Emancipation Pro
Scientific Revolution
States Rights
13. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
95 Theses
Cathedrals
English Bill of Rights
Industrial Revolution
14. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Articles of Confederation
cultural diffusion
veto
Age of Exploration & Colonization
15. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
1787
Iron Curtain
Urban
14th Amendment
16. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
suffrage
Limited Government
13th Amendment
cultural diffusion
17. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
13th Amendment
Secularism
Cottage industry
Taxation
18. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
veto
Declaration of Indepen.
Commercial Agriculture
Nationalism
19. Mass production of food
Suez Canal
Straits
Commercial Agriculture
Popular Sovereignty
20. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
market - oriented agriculture
Emancipation Proclamation
Suez Canal
Nullification Crisis
21. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Constitutional Conv.
Cottage industry
Industrial Revolution
Free - enterprise economic system
22. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
tariff
Federalist Papers
standard of living
Migration
23. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Thomas Jefferson
Standard of living
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Atlantic Slave Trade
24. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Checks and Balances
Federalism
Indulgences
25. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
colonists
1787
Magnetic Compass
Force Bill
26. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Civil War
Montesquieu
Columbian Exchange
Articles of Confederation
27. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Emancipation Proclamation
Basic Needs
unalienable
Industrial Revolution
28. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Declaration of Indepen.
amendment
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Middle Ages
29. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Irrigation Canals
House of Burgesses
Indulgences
Hammurabi
30. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
1787
Articles of Confederation
Consent of the Governed
Abraham Lincoln
31. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Thomas Jefferson
Checks and Balances
Limited Government
Migration
32. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Bartering
Monroe doctrine
1787-1789
Magna Carta
33. Complaints
Columbian Exchange
grievance
Crusaders
urban
34. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
suburban
grievance
Thomas Jefferson
Cotton Gin
35. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Hammurabi
Taxation
Direct Democracy
Straits
36. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
international
nullify
Civil War
Enlightenment
37. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Iron Curtain
Self Determination
urban
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
38. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Immigration patterns
imports
King George III
Subsistence agriculture
39. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Basic Needs
Age of Exploration & Colonization
English Bill of Rights
secondary source
40. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Winston Churchill
95 Theses
Direct Democracy
Thomas Jefferson
41. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Federalism
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Representative Democracy
Thomas Jefferson
42. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
cultural diffusion
Civil War
English Bill of Rights
Individual Rights
43. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Straits of Hormuz
Articles of Confederation
Popular Sovereignty
Limited Government
44. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
14th Amendment
Straits
rural
45. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Bill of Rights
Urban
Constitutional Conv.
Magna Carta
46. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
Magna Carta
Indulgences
Articles of Confederation
47. Who opposed the Constitution?
1787-1789
Montesquieu
Subsistence economy
Anti - Federalists
48. 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
Communism/Command Economy
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Barriers
suffrage
49. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
bias
Draco
14th Amendment
Urban
50. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Labor force
Individual Rights
Fund. Order of Conn.
Infant Mortality