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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Montesquieu
Federalism
Theocracy
Representative Democracy
2. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Abraham Lincoln
15th Amendment
3. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Silk Road
Cathedrals
Commercial Agriculture
1215
4. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Republicanism
veto
era
Infant Mortality
5. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
1787-1789
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Federalist Papers
States Rights
6. A government that elects its leaders
citizen
George Washington
Republic
Age of Reason
7. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Thomas Jefferson
14th Amendment
1215
bias
8. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Articles of Confederation
Iron Curtain
Panama Canal
States Rights
9. Involving other countries
Life Expectancy
Founding of Jamestown
international
secondary source
10. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
international
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Imperialism
11. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
limited government
rural
cottage industry
Direct Democracy
12. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Suez Canal
Crusaders
Basic Needs
Civil War
13. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Urban
Panama Canal
Andean civilization
1791
14. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Panama Canal
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Limited Government
Popular Sovereignty
15. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Fund. Order of Conn.
Brown v. Board of Edu.
States Rights
Imperialism
16. People who settle and live in a colony
Industrialized
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
1791
colonists
17. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Cuneiform
John Locke
Individual Rights
Abraham Lincoln
18. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Representative Government
secondary source
federalism
amendment
19. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Industrialization
Middle Ages
Winston Churchill
95 Theses
20. Having to do with one's own homeland
secondary source
Printing Press
domestic
Plessy v. Ferguson
21. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Republicanism
Individual Rights
Articles of Conf.
U.S. Constitution
22. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Latitude
Direct Democracy
suburban
Republicanism
23. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Henry Ford
Ben Franklin
Republic
Civil War 1861-1865
24. 1st written constitution
Unconstitutional
1215
Magna Carta
Fund. Order of Conn.
25. Exchange of goods and services.
Civil War
trade
Mayflower Compact
ratify
26. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Adam Smith
Declaration of Indepen.
Polytheism
Famine
27. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
market - oriented agriculture
grievance
Anti - Federalist
28. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
George Washington
Representative Government
Longitude
Brown v. Board of Edu.
29. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Barriers
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
End of Reconstruction
Popular Sovereignty
30. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
George Washington
exports
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Brown v. Board of Edu.
31. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Federalism
Mayflower Compact
14th Amendment
Cotton Gin
32. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
ratify
Literacy Rate
Mesoamerica civilizations
ziggurats
33. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Mesoamerica civilizations
unalienable
Atlantic Slave Trade
cultural diffusion
34. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
1863 Emancipation Pro
Silk Road
Secularism
35. The System in the U.S. and other free market economies. It includes economic choice - competition - profit motive - and limited government regulation of the economy.
Henry Ford
1776
Free - enterprise economic system
Absolute Monarchy
36. Average number of years people live
Land Ordinance of 1785
Enlightenment
Life Expectancy
era
37. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Bubonic Plague
Parliament
Longitude
Cotton Gin
38. To officially approve.
domestic
Federalism
Traditional economy
ratify
39. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Industrial Revolution
Magna Carta
Parliament
End of Reconstruction
40. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
Columbian Exchange
Mesoamerica civilizations
cultural diffusion
41. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Bill of Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785
international
Barriers
42. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Articles of Confederation
suburban
grievance
Monroe doctrine
43. King of England during the American Revolution.
King George III
George Washington
Cottage industry
Cotton Gin
44. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Winston Churchill
bias
The Nullification Crisis
domestic
45. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Abe Lincoln
Industrialized
Federalist Papers
Bubonic Plague
46. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
15th Amendment
Subsistence economy
Industrial Revolution
Limited Government
47. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
Hammurabi
trade
Fund. Order of Conn.
48. Modern Constitution
U.S. Constitution
Unconstitutional
Fertile Crescent
Civil War
49. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
ziggurats
Individual Rights
Protestant Reformation
50. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Latitude
federalism
Parliament
Cottage industry