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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. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Parliament
States Rights
Oligarchy
14th Amendment
2. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Mayflower Compact
era
Thomas Jefferson
Magna Carta
3. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
End of Reconstruction
Atlantic Slave Trade
Direct Democracy
4. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Representative Government
Cuneiform
English Bill of Rights
Totalitarianism
5. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Articles of Confederation
urban
Panama Canal
ziggurats
6. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Separation of Powers .
Traditional economy
Famine
Subsistence agriculture
7. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
Popular Sovereignty
secondary source
Limited Government
8. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Emancipation Proclamation
Nationalism
Latitude
Bill of Rights
9. Who opposed the Constitution?
95 Theses
Anti - Federalists
ziggurats
Canals
10. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Federalist
Atlantic Slave Trade
English Bill of Rights
1066
11. Average income per person
International Trade
Mayflower Compact
primary source
Per Capita Income
12. Government where the religious leader run the government
Theocracy
standard of living
Demographics
era
13. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Fertile Crescent
Declaration of Independence
Standard of living
Nullification Crisis
14. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Justinian
Articles of Conf.
Federalist Papers
urban
15. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
level of development
Articles of Confederation
Theocracy
Representative Government
16. 1st written constitution
Atlantic Slave Trade
Popular Sovereignty
Fund. Order of Conn.
Industrialized
17. Mass production of food
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Commercial Agriculture
subsistence agriculture
House of Burgesses
18. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Civil War
Enlightenment
Magna Carta
Cotton Gin
19. All things that surround us.
environment
1215
Thomas Jefferson
Factory System
20. Exchange of goods and services.
trade
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Magna Carta
ratify
21. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Totalitarianism
Fertile Crescent
1791
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
22. An official change to a law or document of government.
Articles of Confederation
amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
subsistence agriculture
23. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
Immigration patterns
Nullification Crisis
George Washington
24. Belief in one god
The Senate
Monotheism
Theocracy
Taxation
25. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Constitutional Conv.
Protestant Reformation
Articles of Conf.
Monroe doctrine
26. Separate is not equal in public Schools
(naval) blockade
Federalist Papers
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Nationalism
27. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
rural
Infant Mortality
Cathedrals
English Bill of Rights
28. Making goods out of the home
Industrial Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Cottage industry
Popular Sovereignty
29. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Civil War 1861-1865
Industrialization
Natural Barriers
Longitude
30. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Panama Canal
McCullough v. Maryland
John Locke
Magna Carta
31. 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
International Trade
Anti - Federalist
Life Expectancy
Enlightenment
32. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
veto
Montesquieu
English Bill of Rights
1776
33. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
(naval) blockade
Mayflower Compact
Traditional economy
colonists
34. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Checks and Balances
Age of Reason
Renaissance
Separation of Powers .
35. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
1791
International Trade
market - oriented agriculture
Draco
36. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Treaty of Paris 1783
Justinian
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Emancipation Proclamation
37. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Industrialization
Enlightenment
1787-1789
Federalist
38. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Mayflower Compact
Nationalism
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Consent of the Governed
39. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Thomas Jefferson
Migration
grievance
cultural diffusion
40. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
international
Straits of Hormuz
The Senate
Basic Needs
41. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Straits of Hormuz
Barriers
Longitude
Industrialized
42. 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.
Cuneiform
1776
Force Bill
Sub - Saharan Africa .
43. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
cultural diffusion
Magna Carta
The Senate
Direct Democracy
44. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Individual Rights
Force Bill
Articles of Confederation
45. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Parliament
Mesoamerica civilizations
Taxation
Cotton Gin
46. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
14th Amendment
Traditional economy
Federalist Papers
Fertile Crescent
47. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Federalism
Infant Mortality
rural
imports
48. Having to do with one's own homeland
bias
Emancipation Proclamation
Polytheism
domestic
49. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
English Bill of Rights
1066
Self Determination
Founding of Jamestown
50. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Parliament
Montesquieu
cultural diffusion
Republicanism