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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. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Thomas Jefferson
14th Amendment
Individual Rights
Bill of Rights
2. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Civil War
Traditional economy
exports
Basic Needs
3. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Commercial Agriculture
Suez Canal
Straits
Bartering
4. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Standard of living
Irrigation Canals
Traditional economy
Famine
5. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
George Washington
Republic
Literacy Rate
secondary source
6. King/queen who has unlimited power
(naval) blockade
Articles of Confederation
Absolute Monarchy
federalism
7. Split in the church
Articles of Confederation
Schism
Cathedrals
Montesquieu
8. Making goods out of the home
Cuneiform
Cottage industry
Fund. Order of Conn.
bias
9. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Federalist Papers
1066
Justinian
Parliament
10. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Representative Government
Federalism
Marbury v. Madison
1066
11. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Polytheism
Thomas Jefferson
Sub - Saharan Africa .
English Bill of Rights
12. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Andean civilization
level of development
Parliament
13. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
House of Burgesses
Republic
nullify
subsistence agriculture
14. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Age of Reason
veto
Enlightenment
Unconstitutional
15. 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
Factory System
English Bill of Rights
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
16. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
subsistence agriculture
Taxation
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
17. Curbed States' Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Unconstitutional
ratify
Magna Carta
18. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
1791
era
cultural diffusion
Suez Canal
19. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Draco
Representative democracy
Limited Government
Longitude
20. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Individual Rights
Magnetic Compass
Magna Carta
Crusaders
21. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Mesoamerica civilizations
Representative Government
secondary source
Demographics
22. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Unconstitutional
Theocracy
Articles of Conf.
Thomas Jefferson
23. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Subsistence economy
Force Bill
1215
1791
24. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
urban
Andean civilization
Federalist Papers
Enlightenment
25. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Immigration patterns
international
Per Capita Income
Magna Carta
26. Who opposed the Constitution?
Anti - Federalists
Silk Road
Fertile Crescent
Industrial Revolution
27. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
U.S. Constitution
Subsistence economy
Cotton Gin
Indulgences
28. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Absolute Monarchy
The Senate
Industrial Revolution
Representative Government
29. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
House of Burgesses
Literacy Rate
Hammurabi
30. Government where the religious leader run the government
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Theocracy
Free - enterprise economic system
English Bill of Rights
31. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
15th Amendment
Monroe doctrine
Migration
Treaty of Paris 1783
32. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
cottage industry
unalienable
nullify
federalism
33. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Immigration patterns
secondary source
Middle Ages
standard of living
34. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
Literacy Rate
Thomas Jefferson
Federalist
35. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Cathedrals
limited government
Articles of Confederation
Bartering
36. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
U.S. Constitution
Magna Carta
Bill of Rights
Federalist Papers
37. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Crusaders
Republicanism
Articles of Confederation
Silk Road
38. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Fertile Crescent
Traditional economy
Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers .
39. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Magnetic Compass
Representative Government
Emancipation Proclamation
40. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
cultural diffusion
Adam Smith
Federalist
Founding of Jamestown
41. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Checks and Balances
Federalist
1863 Emancipation Pro
42. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
House of Burgesses
Imperialism
Cotton Gin
Fund. Order of Conn.
43. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
English Bill of Rights
Middle Ages
Nationalism
Parliament
44. These slow down movement/migration
Labor force
Civil War
Suez Canal
Barriers
45. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
Straits
Founding of Jamestown
Natural Barriers
46. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Separation of Powers
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalism
Mayflower Compact
47. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Civil War
15th Amendment
Fertile Crescent
Barriers
48. An official change to a law or document of government.
Factory System
Marbury v. Madison
amendment
Mayflower Compact (1620)
49. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Bill of Rights
Factory System
13th Amendment
English Bill of Rights
50. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
Limited Government
Columbian Exchange
international
Civil War 1861-1865