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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. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Republicanism
End of Reconstruction
urban
2. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
urban
cultural diffusion
Constitutional Monarchy
Popular Sovereignty
3. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Individual Rights
George Washington
Anti - Federalists
4. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
Latitude
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
federalism
5. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Columbian Exchange
Indulgences
Communism/Command Economy
Civil War
6. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
secondary source
Polytheism
Federalism
Taxation
7. Economic thinker that developed communism
Karl Marx
Andean civilization
95 Theses
15th Amendment
8. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Theocracy
1791
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
95 Theses
9. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Bill of Rights
Longitude
13th Amendment
Free - enterprise economic system
10. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Middle Ages
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
cottage industry
Immigration patterns
11. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Printing Press
Atlantic Slave Trade
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
12. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Indulgences
Henry Ford
Anti - Federalist
Cottage industry
13. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Republic
Crusaders
Thomas Jefferson
Justinian
14. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
English Bill of Rights
Republicanism
Capitalism/Market Economy
Cuneiform
15. A government that elects its leaders
Montesquieu
Republic
Plessy v. Ferguson
Urban
16. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Subsistence agriculture
market - oriented agriculture
Humanism
Bartering
17. Period in Europe that began after the fall of the Roman Empire Characterized by feudalism - Roman Catholic Church was the unifier of the age with more power than Kings/Lords
Middle Ages
(naval) blockade
Draco
Abe Lincoln
18. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
The Senate
Federalist
Nullification Crisis
House of Burgesses
19. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Middle Ages
Iron Curtain
English Bill of Rights
international
20. 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.
Cotton Gin
Force Bill
urban
Free - enterprise economic system
21. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
trade
Treaty of Paris 1783
McCullough v. Maryland
Mesoamerica civilizations
22. All things that surround us.
Literacy Rate
urban
environment
Plessy v. Ferguson
23. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
suffrage
Emancipation Proclamation
Declaration of Independence
Panama Canal
24. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Land Ordinance of 1785
Bill of Rights
1215
Limited Government
25. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1787-1789
Humanism
Magna Carta
Literacy Rate
26. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Declaration of Indepen.
Subsistence economy
Standard of living
Henry Ford
27. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
Marbury v. Madison
Magna Carta
Canals
28. Making goods out of the home
Founding of Jamestown
veto
Cottage industry
Cuneiform
29. Established Judicial Review.
Anti - Federalist
Columbian Exchange
House of Burgesses
Marbury v. Madison
30. Member of a country.
Standard of living
Mayflower Compact
citizen
1791
31. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
English Bill of Rights
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Straits of Hormuz
States Rights
32. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Republicanism
Atlantic Slave Trade
Labor force
citizen
33. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Representative Democracy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Self Determination
Bubonic Plague
34. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
(naval) blockade
subsistence agriculture
Middle Ages
George Washington
35. Average income per person
13th Amendment
Free - enterprise economic system
Per Capita Income
Emancipation Proclamation
36. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Justinian
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Limited Government
Renaissance
37. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
urban
exports
Enlightenment
Enlightenment
38. Mass production of food
Commercial Agriculture
Justinian
Magna Carta
Hammurabi
39. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Popular Sovereignty
Basic Needs
Force Bill
Republicanism
40. Belief in one god
Latitude
Monotheism
Monroe doctrine
Declaration of Independence
41. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Marbury v. Madison
Secularism
Protestant Reformation
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
42. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Adam Smith
Abraham Lincoln
Commercial Agriculture
43. 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
Natural Barriers
Communism/Command Economy
Karl Marx
States Rights
44. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Capitalism/Market Economy
Thomas Jefferson
environment
Polytheism
45. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Plessy v. Ferguson
Abraham Lincoln
Representative democracy
Checks and Balances
46. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Articles of Conf.
Land Ordinance of 1785
15th Amendment
Imperialism
47. People who settle and live in a colony
Magna Carta
Constitutional Conv.
King George III
colonists
48. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Articles of Conf.
Straits of Hormuz
Limited Government
Nationalism
49. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Declaration of Indepen.
Limited Government
Popular Sovereignty
McCullough v. Maryland
50. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
International Trade
Plessy v. Ferguson
Individual Rights
Magnetic Compass