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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. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
1863 Emancipation Pro
King George III
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Middle Ages
2. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Federalism
Andean civilization
Capitalism/Market Economy
Renaissance
3. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
rural
Limited Government
Commercial Agriculture
Fund. Order of Conn.
4. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
Capitalism/Market Economy
primary source
5. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
standard of living
Individual Rights
suffrage
ratify
6. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Limited Government
Commercial Agriculture
Inalienable/Unalienable
14th Amendment
7. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Federalism
Age of Reason
Straits of Hormuz
Constitutional Conv.
8. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Constitutional Monarchy
Self Determination
Per Capita Income
Mayflower Compact (1620)
9. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Industrial Revolution
Limited Government
Literacy Rate
14th Amendment
10. 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
Subsistence agriculture
Popular Sovereignty
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Columbian Exchange
11. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Draco
Direct Democracy
John Locke
13th Amendment
12. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Communism/Command Economy
Popular Sovereignty
Representative Democracy
Hammurabi
13. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Subsistence agriculture
Demographics
Republic
Henry Ford
14. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Abe Lincoln
Articles of Conf.
urban
Andean civilization
15. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
cottage industry
Indulgences
Iron Curtain
16. 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
Justinian
The Senate
Taxation
17. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Declaration of Independence
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Articles of Conf.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
18. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
subsistence agriculture
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Traditional economy
19. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
English Bill of Rights
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Articles of Conf.
Plessy v. Ferguson
20. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Printing Press
Bartering
exports
International Trade
21. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Infant Mortality
citizen
Henry Ford
secondary source
22. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
15th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Land Ordinance of 1785
Montesquieu
23. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Civil War
Monroe doctrine
Inalienable/Unalienable
14th Amendment
24. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Demographics
Ben Franklin
Emancipation Proclamation
Bill of Rights
25. Involving other countries
Ben Franklin
international
Canals
veto
26. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
Magnetic Compass
colonists
Barriers
27. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
primary source
13th Amendment
U.S. Constitution
28. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Separation of Powers
Federalist Papers
Declaration of Independence
Age of Reason
29. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Adam Smith
Life Expectancy
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
30. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Enlightenment
95 Theses
Constitutional Conv.
House of Burgesses
31. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
era
Bill of Rights
citizen
Traditional economy
32. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Subsistence agriculture
Absolute Monarchy
Self Determination
Industrial Revolution
33. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
secondary source
Life Expectancy
Traditional economy
George Washington
34. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Fund. Order of Conn.
Migration
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Mayflower Compact
35. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Henry Ford
Checks and Balances
environment
Labor force
36. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
environment
Popular Sovereignty
Crusaders
bias
37. Opposed to the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government and not enough to the states. They also wanted individual rights protected
Protestant Reformation
Cotton Gin
Literacy Rate
Anti - Federalist
38. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Emancipation Proclamation
George Washington
Republic
The Nullification Crisis
39. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
ratify
Montesquieu
Founding of Jamestown
40. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
bias
Atlantic Slave Trade
Karl Marx
nullify
41. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Secularism
Republicanism
Mayflower Compact
Civil War 1861-1865
42. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Mayflower Compact
era
Atlantic Slave Trade
Thomas Jefferson
43. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Nationalism
Adam Smith
Treaty of Paris 1783
Migration
44. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
era
Nationalism
Bubonic Plague
Civil War 1861-1865
45. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
(naval) blockade
suffrage
Latitude
46. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
urban
Infant Mortality
Republicanism
47. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Natural Barriers
Secularism
Unconstitutional
Commercial Agriculture
48. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
English Bill of Rights
Enlightenment
Civil War 1861-1865
The Senate
49. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Immigration patterns
Parliament
King George III
John Locke
50. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
Age of Reason
Famine
Immigration patterns