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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. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
End of Reconstruction
Traditional economy
Mesoamerica civilizations
Imperialism
2. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Basic Needs
Thomas Jefferson
urban
Federalism
3. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
International Trade
14th Amendment
Age of Reason
1791
4. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Totalitarianism
1787-1789
Popular Sovereignty
suffrage
5. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Mesoamerica civilizations
Anti - Federalists
Famine
Republicanism
6. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Oligarchy
Karl Marx
Atlantic Slave Trade
subsistence agriculture
7. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
suburban
secondary source
Federalist Papers
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
8. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Industrial Revolution
Cathedrals
federalism
Immigration patterns
9. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Articles of Confederation
Montesquieu
imports
Anti - Federalist
10. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Scientific Revolution
Popular Sovereignty
English Bill of Rights
Bubonic Plague
11. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Founding of Jamestown
Justinian
Polytheism
Mayflower Compact (1620)
12. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Theocracy
John Locke
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Crusaders
13. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Indulgences
Abe Lincoln
colonists
Imperialism
14. 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.
Checks and Balances
Abe Lincoln
Federalism
Demographics
15. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Industrialized
1776
Enlightenment
Declaration of Indepen.
16. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
14th Amendment
Separation of Powers
Anti - Federalists
Taxation
17. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
Civil War
U.S. Constitution
cultural diffusion
18. Who opposed the Constitution?
Industrial Revolution
Anti - Federalists
Suez Canal
Declaration of Indepen.
19. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Standard of living
Popular Sovereignty
U.S. Constitution
Traditional economy
20. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Magna Carta
Straits
unalienable
citizen
21. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Emancipation Proclamation
Iron Curtain
Direct Democracy
Industrialized
22. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
imports
Printing Press
Taxation
Magna Carta
23. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Taxation
International Trade
Articles of Conf.
English Bill of Rights
24. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Andean civilization
Plessy v. Ferguson
Basic Needs
Natural Barriers
25. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
International Trade
Emancipation Proclamation
Cotton Gin
The Nullification Crisis
26. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
market - oriented agriculture
international
Brown v. Board of Edu.
27. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
Anti - Federalist
Capitalism/Market Economy
grievance
28. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
English Bill of Rights
tariff
Articles of Conf.
Unconstitutional
29. Modern Constitution
Winston Churchill
U.S. Constitution
Enlightenment
Monroe doctrine
30. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Civil War 1861-1865
Draco
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Civil War
31. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
nullify
Straits of Hormuz
U.S. Constitution
Canals
32. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Brown v. Board of Edu.
George Washington
Nationalism
Free - enterprise economic system
33. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
1787-1789
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
unalienable
34. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Industrial Revolution
Republic
Longitude
Consent of the Governed
35. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Straits
environment
Bartering
Magna Carta
36. 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
1066
Crusaders
English Bill of Rights
Middle Ages
37. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Iron Curtain
Representative democracy
1863 Emancipation Pro
cottage industry
38. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Andean civilization
Natural Barriers
Industrial Revolution
Infant Mortality
39. The System in the U.S. and other free market economies. It includes economic choice - competition - profit motive - and limited government regulation of the economy.
Free - enterprise economic system
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Oligarchy
limited government
40. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Printing Press
environment
Consent of the Governed
15th Amendment
41. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
Monotheism
Sub - Saharan Africa .
bias
42. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
States Rights
1215
Irrigation Canals
Age of Reason
43. 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.
Checks and Balances
Industrialized
Force Bill
Republic
44. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
English Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers
Commercial Agriculture
John Locke
45. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Bill of Rights
Marbury v. Madison
Civil War 1861-1865
46. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Per Capita Income
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
14th Amendment
Longitude
47. King of England during the American Revolution.
King George III
Self Determination
Republic
Winston Churchill
48. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Nullification Crisis
Checks and Balances
Representative Government
49. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Industrial Revolution
Magna Carta
era
Checks and Balances
50. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Parliament
nullify
Mesoamerica civilizations
Consent of the Governed