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TAKS 10th Grade World History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • 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. 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






2. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc






3. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government






4. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain






5. Banned slavery throughout the nation.






6. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.






7. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia






8. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany






9. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere






10. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code






11. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food






12. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government






13. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water






14. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over






15. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.






16. 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.






17. Split in the church






18. Economic thinker that developed communism






19. Who opposed the Constitution?






20. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'






21. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed






22. Mass production of food






23. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.






24. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.






25. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.






26. Belief in many gods






27. President of the United States during the Civil War






28. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.






29. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.






30. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast






31. Battle of Hastings - centralized government






32. Mountains - deserts and oceans






33. Belief in one god






34. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded






35. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.






36. Member of a country.






37. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.






38. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.






39. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.






40. Officially ended the American Revolution






41. A government that elects its leaders






42. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)






43. Right of groups of people to create their own nation






44. Government where the religious leader run the government






45. Limited the power of the King in 1215






46. Government ruled by a few powerful people






47. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.






48. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'






49. Curbed States' Rights






50. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.