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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. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Republicanism
Enlightenment
environment
Labor force
2. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
1787-1789
Imperialism
International Trade
limited government
3. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
Hammurabi
Andean civilization
Longitude
4. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Inalienable/Unalienable
English Bill of Rights
imports
15th Amendment
5. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Demographics
Civil War 1861-1865
Limited Government
Migration
6. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Articles of Confederation
Justinian
Panama Canal
Labor force
7. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Magna Carta
Federalism
Commercial Agriculture
grievance
8. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Middle Ages
Justinian
Checks and Balances
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
9. King/queen who has unlimited power
Andean civilization
Mayflower Compact
Constitutional Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy
10. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Industrial Revolution
Age of Reason
Fertile Crescent
11. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Emancipation Proclamation
Republic
Land Ordinance of 1785
1787-1789
12. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Federalist Papers
cottage industry
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Life Expectancy
13. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
1215
suburban
Bill of Rights
Cotton Gin
14. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Federalist Papers
Articles of Confederation
Popular Sovereignty
Imperialism
15. An official change to a law or document of government.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
amendment
ratify
Hammurabi
16. Involving other countries
1787
Popular Sovereignty
The Nullification Crisis
international
17. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Standard of living
Separation of Powers
Federalism
Constitutional Conv.
18. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
nullify
Crusaders
Infant Mortality
Mesoamerica civilizations
19. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Unconstitutional
George Washington
Mesoamerica civilizations
unalienable
20. Belief in many gods
federalism
95 Theses
Polytheism
level of development
21. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Latitude
Magna Carta
standard of living
Federalist
22. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Subsistence agriculture
nullify
Justinian
rural
23. 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.
Renaissance
exports
Straits
Force Bill
24. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
cultural diffusion
Articles of Confederation
Parliament
trade
25. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Canals
Declaration of Indepen.
Imperialism
Direct Democracy
26. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Andean civilization
Magnetic Compass
unalienable
Checks and Balances
27. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Constitutional Conv.
tariff
Henry Ford
Cathedrals
28. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
subsistence agriculture
Infant Mortality
colonists
29. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
secondary source
Civil War 1861-1865
Totalitarianism
Anti - Federalist
30. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
Fund. Order of Conn.
Mesoamerica civilizations
Henry Ford
31. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Andean civilization
Federalist Papers
Karl Marx
Longitude
32. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Straits of Hormuz
Civil War
Infant Mortality
Subsistence agriculture
33. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
limited government
Absolute Monarchy
15th Amendment
tariff
34. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Self Determination
Longitude
Protestant Reformation
Iron Curtain
35. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Thomas Jefferson
Federalist Papers
Mayflower Compact
Humanism
36. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Marbury v. Madison
Industrialization
Taxation
Republicanism
37. Mass production of food
Silk Road
Infant Mortality
Commercial Agriculture
secondary source
38. Average number of years people live
Force Bill
Life Expectancy
Cotton Gin
Articles of Confederation
39. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
1863 Emancipation Pro
Columbian Exchange
cottage industry
Iron Curtain
40. All things that surround us.
Magnetic Compass
environment
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Labor force
41. Average income per person
(naval) blockade
Bill of Rights
Per Capita Income
Standard of living
42. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Marbury v. Madison
Latitude
Civil War 1861-1865
English Bill of Rights
43. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe doctrine
Industrialization
14th Amendment
Republicanism
44. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
bias
trade
Parliament
45. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Winston Churchill
Atlantic Slave Trade
Canals
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
46. 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
Treaty of Paris 1783
Factory System
Nationalism
Middle Ages
47. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Longitude
Life Expectancy
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
15th Amendment
48. Exchange of goods and services.
14th Amendment
International Trade
trade
colonists
49. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
1791
Life Expectancy
Bartering
Constitutional Monarchy
50. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Theocracy
Founding of Jamestown
Mayflower Compact
Winston Churchill