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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. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
George Washington
Printing Press
Famine
2. Making goods out of the home
Plessy v. Ferguson
Age of Reason
Cottage industry
Scientific Revolution
3. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Free - enterprise economic system
Constitutional Conv.
Popular Sovereignty
Mayflower Compact (1620)
4. 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.
End of Reconstruction
Canals
Plessy v. Ferguson
Checks and Balances
5. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
rural
Separation of Powers .
Montesquieu
Parliament
6. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Oligarchy
colonists
14th Amendment
Magna Carta
7. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
The Nullification Crisis
Subsistence agriculture
Absolute Monarchy
Checks and Balances
8. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Printing Press
Checks and Balances
Sub - Saharan Africa .
subsistence agriculture
9. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe doctrine
Iron Curtain
Cotton Gin
1791
10. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Longitude
suburban
Protestant Reformation
Anti - Federalists
11. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Republicanism
Popular Sovereignty
Straits
George Washington
12. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Plessy v. Ferguson
Emancipation Proclamation
Separation of Powers .
Fertile Crescent
13. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
Articles of Conf.
King George III
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
14. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Popular Sovereignty
Urban
Republic
Representative Democracy
15. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Cuneiform
Printing Press
suffrage
John Locke
16. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
George Washington
Montesquieu
Declaration of Indepen.
Separation of Powers .
17. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
14th Amendment
Canals
Representative Democracy
Declaration of Indepen.
18. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Marbury v. Madison
The Senate
Limited Government
federalism
19. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Articles of Conf.
Fund. Order of Conn.
subsistence agriculture
suburban
20. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Magna Carta
Consent of the Governed
Longitude
Cottage industry
21. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
George Washington
Commercial Agriculture
Individual Rights
Sub - Saharan Africa .
22. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Andean civilization
Thomas Jefferson
Humanism
Migration
23. Split in the church
Factory System
Parliament
Schism
Civil War
24. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Unconstitutional
Industrial Revolution
Separation of Powers
market - oriented agriculture
25. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
King George III
Industrialization
Articles of Confederation
Popular Sovereignty
26. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Limited Government
George Washington
Draco
subsistence agriculture
27. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
1863 Emancipation Pro
Hammurabi
Longitude
Suez Canal
28. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Federalism
cultural diffusion
1066
Checks and Balances
29. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Thomas Jefferson
Republicanism
colonists
Straits of Hormuz
30. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Thomas Jefferson
Industrialized
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Totalitarianism
31. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Thomas Jefferson
Capitalism/Market Economy
Constitutional Conv.
secondary source
32. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
End of Reconstruction
Force Bill
bias
Indulgences
33. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
tariff
Commercial Agriculture
Labor force
federalism
34. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Separation of Powers .
English Bill of Rights
Constitutional Conv.
Magna Carta
35. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Bartering
Self Determination
Representative Government
Age of Exploration & Colonization
36. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Humanism
Abe Lincoln
Land Ordinance of 1785
Latitude
37. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Migration
colonists
Republicanism
imports
38. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Barriers
Unconstitutional
King George III
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
39. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Federalist Papers
Anti - Federalist
End of Reconstruction
Imperialism
40. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Bartering
Communism/Command Economy
Irrigation Canals
Cotton Gin
41. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Andean civilization
Traditional economy
Articles of Confederation
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
42. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Republic
English Bill of Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
Representative Democracy
43. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
House of Burgesses
era
Federalism
English Bill of Rights
44. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Crusaders
rural
Age of Reason
Bill of Rights
45. King/queen who has unlimited power
Absolute Monarchy
Federalist
Mesoamerica civilizations
Declaration of Independence
46. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
International Trade
subsistence agriculture
Mesoamerica civilizations
Communism/Command Economy
47. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Commercial Agriculture
Oligarchy
Life Expectancy
exports
48. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
imports
Literacy Rate
Panama Canal
Printing Press
49. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
(naval) blockade
Demographics
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
50. Having to do with one's own homeland
Indulgences
domestic
tariff
Suez Canal