Test your basic knowledge |

TAKS 10th Grade World History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights






2. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.






3. Economic thinker that developed communism






4. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers






5. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws






6. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally






7. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.






8. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory






9. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution






10. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)






11. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.






12. Having industries for the machine production of goods






13. Involving other countries






14. Battle of Hastings - centralized government






15. 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.






16. First organizing of 13 colonies.






17. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North






18. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government






19. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.






20. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.






21. Banned slavery throughout the nation.






22. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves






23. Small - scale production requiring little capital.






24. Belief in one god






25. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere






26. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia






27. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution






28. Pride in ones country






29. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed






30. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches






31. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities






32. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.






33. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain






34. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.






35. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.






36. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.






37. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.






38. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.






39. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.






40. All things that surround us.






41. Average income per person






42. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic






43. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans






44. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast






45. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery






46. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property






47. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.






48. Established Judicial Review.






49. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.






50. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code