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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. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Ben Franklin
veto
Separation of Powers
Cathedrals
2. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
colonists
Ben Franklin
Magna Carta
3. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Federalist Papers
Ben Franklin
George Washington
4. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Land Ordinance of 1785
Imperialism
Checks and Balances
Representative Government
5. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Humanism
U.S. Constitution
Printing Press
amendment
6. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
End of Reconstruction
Age of Reason
imports
House of Burgesses
7. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Subsistence agriculture
Republic
Articles of Confederation
Republicanism
8. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Cotton Gin
Federalist Papers
Subsistence economy
Absolute Monarchy
9. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Totalitarianism
Fertile Crescent
Consent of the Governed
Checks and Balances
10. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
95 Theses
Straits
Articles of Confederation
George Washington
11. 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
Federalist
Theocracy
Winston Churchill
12. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Straits
States Rights
Declaration of Indepen.
Constitutional Conv.
13. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
international
Subsistence economy
market - oriented agriculture
Henry Ford
14. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Federalism
Bill of Rights
International Trade
Cathedrals
15. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Plessy v. Ferguson
English Bill of Rights
Enlightenment
Oligarchy
16. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
nullify
Justinian
Hammurabi
Absolute Monarchy
17. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
limited government
imports
(naval) blockade
urban
18. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Emancipation Proclamation
Inalienable/Unalienable
subsistence agriculture
federalism
19. Average income per person
era
Civil War 1861-1865
Per Capita Income
Emancipation Proclamation
20. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Henry Ford
Barriers
Immigration patterns
21. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Emancipation Proclamation
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Mayflower Compact
Enlightenment
22. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Draco
Atlantic Slave Trade
market - oriented agriculture
Mayflower Compact
23. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Enlightenment
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Crusaders
Magnetic Compass
24. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
14th Amendment
Bill of Rights
era
Theocracy
25. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
unalienable
Individual Rights
subsistence agriculture
Emancipation Proclamation
26. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Industrial Revolution
Popular Sovereignty
13th Amendment
Enlightenment
27. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
U.S. Constitution
Direct Democracy
Bubonic Plague
Draco
28. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
14th Amendment
29. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Suez Canal
Fertile Crescent
Limited Government
30. Pride in ones country
Cuneiform
Nationalism
Longitude
Winston Churchill
31. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Subsistence economy
Emancipation Proclamation
1787
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
32. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Representative Government
Labor force
Enlightenment
Cathedrals
33. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Mayflower Compact
Separation of Powers .
Republic
Industrial Revolution
34. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
George Washington
Industrial Revolution
federalism
35. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Oligarchy
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Parliament
36. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Magna Carta
Migration
Atlantic Slave Trade
Nullification Crisis
37. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Civil War
limited government
Straits of Hormuz
Per Capita Income
38. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
14th Amendment
1787
Canals
39. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Printing Press
Popular Sovereignty
Articles of Confederation
1787-1789
40. Who opposed the Constitution?
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Anti - Federalists
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Imperialism
41. Average number of years people live
Articles of Conf.
Life Expectancy
Oligarchy
1215
42. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Adam Smith
veto
Force Bill
Magna Carta
43. Exchange of goods and services.
Federalist Papers
trade
Monotheism
Printing Press
44. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Factory System
International Trade
Plessy v. Ferguson
cultural diffusion
45. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Draco
King George III
Bubonic Plague
Scientific Revolution
46. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Immigration patterns
Monroe doctrine
Articles of Confederation
Industrialization
47. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
suffrage
Adam Smith
Communism/Command Economy
48. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
1787-1789
Columbian Exchange
Standard of living
Communism/Command Economy
49. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Factory System
Magna Carta
Magnetic Compass
Fund. Order of Conn.
50. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Ben Franklin
Civil War 1861-1865
Abraham Lincoln
14th Amendment