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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. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
Industrial Revolution
rural
13th Amendment
2. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Totalitarianism
level of development
1791
bias
3. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Unconstitutional
Suez Canal
colonists
Industrialization
4. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Civil War 1861-1865
Polytheism
14th Amendment
domestic
5. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Straits of Hormuz
Life Expectancy
Representative Government
Cottage industry
6. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Montesquieu
George Washington
Bubonic Plague
Cotton Gin
7. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
Silk Road
Ben Franklin
Natural Barriers
Adam Smith
8. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
environment
subsistence agriculture
veto
Literacy Rate
9. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
English Bill of Rights
Per Capita Income
Industrial Revolution
Unconstitutional
10. President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Plessy v. Ferguson
Theocracy
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
11. Curbed States' Rights
Industrial Revolution
The Senate
McCullough v. Maryland
Direct Democracy
12. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Plessy v. Ferguson
trade
McCullough v. Maryland
13th Amendment
13. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Land Ordinance of 1785
Federalist
secondary source
Draco
14. 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.
suburban
Force Bill
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Marbury v. Madison
15. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Per Capita Income
Crusaders
Cathedrals
Nullification Crisis
16. An official change to a law or document of government.
amendment
Civil War
(naval) blockade
Federalism
17. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
13th Amendment
Panama Canal
Henry Ford
colonists
18. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Basic Needs
Oligarchy
Hammurabi
market - oriented agriculture
19. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
Andean civilization
States Rights
environment
primary source
20. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
unalienable
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
imports
21. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
Checks and Balances
Montesquieu
Fertile Crescent
22. People who settle and live in a colony
Constitutional Monarchy
Hammurabi
Silk Road
colonists
23. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Articles of Conf.
1776
Capitalism/Market Economy
Andean civilization
24. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Republic
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Renaissance
McCullough v. Maryland
25. King/queen who has unlimited power
Parliament
Industrial Revolution
ziggurats
Absolute Monarchy
26. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Enlightenment
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Indulgences
Industrialization
27. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.
1776
1787
McCullough v. Maryland
Oligarchy
28. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Silk Road
Enlightenment
Checks and Balances
Justinian
29. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
McCullough v. Maryland
Constitutional Conv.
Marbury v. Madison
95 Theses
30. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Popular Sovereignty
trade
Articles of Confederation
Bartering
31. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Mesoamerica civilizations
Labor force
32. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
International Trade
House of Burgesses
Commercial Agriculture
George Washington
33. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Plessy v. Ferguson
bias
Thomas Jefferson
Marbury v. Madison
34. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Separation of Powers
Standard of living
Civil War
Demographics
35. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Atlantic Slave Trade
cottage industry
(naval) blockade
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
36. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
colonists
Civil War
Urban
37. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Founding of Jamestown
Theocracy
The Nullification Crisis
Direct Democracy
38. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Industrialized
13th Amendment
House of Burgesses
Per Capita Income
39. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Draco
Factory System
Longitude
Justinian
40. Mass production of food
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Nullification Crisis
Commercial Agriculture
Unconstitutional
41. Split in the church
Schism
standard of living
Checks and Balances
Monroe doctrine
42. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Polytheism
Scientific Revolution
bias
43. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Migration
limited government
1776
Fertile Crescent
44. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Plessy v. Ferguson
Literacy Rate
Scientific Revolution
Thomas Jefferson
45. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Factory System
Subsistence agriculture
Crusaders
Adam Smith
46. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Republicanism
Individual Rights
Famine
Straits of Hormuz
47. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Articles of Confederation
Federalist Papers
Columbian Exchange
Fertile Crescent
48. Limited the power of the King in 1215
imports
Theocracy
Magna Carta
Inalienable/Unalienable
49. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Anti - Federalists
95 Theses
King George III
Articles of Confederation
50. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Abe Lincoln
English Bill of Rights
Humanism
Columbian Exchange