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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. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Longitude
Communism/Command Economy
Magnetic Compass
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
2. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Absolute Monarchy
grievance
Age of Reason
3. Officially ended the American Revolution
cottage industry
Treaty of Paris 1783
Mesoamerica civilizations
Capitalism/Market Economy
4. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Urban
Separation of Powers
Free - enterprise economic system
Abe Lincoln
5. King of England during the American Revolution.
King George III
Age of Reason
rural
Anti - Federalist
6. Complaints
Enlightenment
Factory System
grievance
Magna Carta
7. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Adam Smith
Bubonic Plague
House of Burgesses
Federalist Papers
8. Curbed States' Rights
Representative Government
Civil War
Republic
McCullough v. Maryland
9. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Iron Curtain
Communism/Command Economy
Articles of Confederation
suffrage
10. Exchange of goods and services.
trade
International Trade
ziggurats
Founding of Jamestown
11. An official change to a law or document of government.
Separation of Powers
Capitalism/Market Economy
amendment
Sub - Saharan Africa .
12. Member of a country.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Magna Carta
citizen
federalism
13. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Immigration patterns
Secularism
standard of living
Montesquieu
14. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
14th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
grievance
Atlantic Slave Trade
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
Self Determination
Andean civilization
Thomas Jefferson
Middle Ages
16. President of the United States during the Civil War
George Washington
Abe Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
17. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
Cuneiform
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Plessy v. Ferguson
18. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Unconstitutional
Demographics
Immigration patterns
Columbian Exchange
19. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Subsistence economy
Unconstitutional
Land Ordinance of 1785
Draco
20. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
citizen
Fertile Crescent
Traditional economy
21. Having industries for the machine production of goods
1791
Republicanism
Suez Canal
Industrialized
22. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Indulgences
Crusaders
imports
unalienable
23. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Abraham Lincoln
Land Ordinance of 1785
The Senate
Basic Needs
24. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Justinian
Cotton Gin
Adam Smith
Representative democracy
25. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
colonists
Cuneiform
Immigration patterns
Industrialization
26. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
suburban
1787
Land Ordinance of 1785
27. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Articles of Confederation
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Oligarchy
28. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Thomas Jefferson
Demographics
Nullification Crisis
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
29. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
International Trade
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Federalism
Taxation
30. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Henry Ford
13th Amendment
International Trade
Free - enterprise economic system
31. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Republicanism
Absolute Monarchy
13th Amendment
Industrial Revolution
32. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Printing Press
Urban
Federalist
environment
33. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
imports
Founding of Jamestown
McCullough v. Maryland
Factory System
34. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Montesquieu
Republic
Constitutional Conv.
Printing Press
35. 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.
Individual Rights
Checks and Balances
Mayflower Compact
Separation of Powers .
36. 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.
Limited Government
Silk Road
primary source
Federalism
37. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Federalism
Industrial Revolution
Monotheism
Federalist Papers
38. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Monroe doctrine
imports
39. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
suburban
urban
Civil War
Basic Needs
40. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Plessy v. Ferguson
1791
Latitude
exports
41. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
amendment
(naval) blockade
nullify
Bill of Rights
42. 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
The Senate
Magnetic Compass
nullify
43. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Magna Carta
Traditional economy
Industrial Revolution
Thomas Jefferson
44. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Enlightenment
Land Ordinance of 1785
cultural diffusion
Absolute Monarchy
45. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bill of Rights
Enlightenment
Bubonic Plague
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
46. A government that elects its leaders
trade
Famine
Republic
level of development
47. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Bubonic Plague
English Bill of Rights
Oligarchy
48. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Migration
Enlightenment
Subsistence agriculture
era
49. Belief in one god
Parliament
1066
Monotheism
Enlightenment
50. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Consent of the Governed
Anti - Federalists
13th Amendment
Representative democracy