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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. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
rural
era
Anti - Federalist
Standard of living
2. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Canals
Basic Needs
Natural Barriers
Straits
3. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Oligarchy
era
Federalist Papers
Thomas Jefferson
4. Complaints
Cottage industry
Longitude
Republicanism
grievance
5. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Civil War
Humanism
Atlantic Slave Trade
6. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Industrialized
Consent of the Governed
Civil War 1861-1865
Anti - Federalist
7. First representative assembly in American
rural
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Straits of Hormuz
House of Burgesses
8. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Justinian
level of development
Commercial Agriculture
Taxation
9. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Draco
Federalist Papers
nullify
Republicanism
10. Belief in one god
Enlightenment
Federalism
Force Bill
Monotheism
11. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
tariff
standard of living
Limited Government
Anti - Federalists
12. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
Declaration of Indepen.
Natural Barriers
Anti - Federalist
13. Involving other countries
international
Inalienable/Unalienable
(naval) blockade
ratify
14. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Force Bill
ziggurats
Emancipation Proclamation
King George III
15. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Abraham Lincoln
Separation of Powers .
international
Nullification Crisis
16. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
15th Amendment
Constitutional Conv.
Brown v. Board of Edu.
international
17. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Articles of Conf.
Constitutional Monarchy
Bill of Rights
13th Amendment
18. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
1215
primary source
Plessy v. Ferguson
19. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Natural Barriers
Cathedrals
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Scientific Revolution
20. Average number of years people live
1787
Totalitarianism
Life Expectancy
Republicanism
21. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
Nationalism
Representative Democracy
Protestant Reformation
22. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Individual Rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
23. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
suffrage
imports
Mayflower Compact
International Trade
24. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Plessy v. Ferguson
Age of Exploration & Colonization
1066
Unconstitutional
25. 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.
Federalist
Fund. Order of Conn.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Checks and Balances
26. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Basic Needs
Atlantic Slave Trade
Straits
13th Amendment
27. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Cotton Gin
Longitude
Indulgences
Printing Press
28. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
1791
McCullough v. Maryland
Representative democracy
Imperialism
29. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Justinian
imports
Renaissance
John Locke
30. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
End of Reconstruction
Silk Road
Limited Government
Sub - Saharan Africa .
31. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
1787-1789
Oligarchy
Representative democracy
Bartering
32. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
bias
Enlightenment
imports
Imperialism
33. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Ben Franklin
Consent of the Governed
English Bill of Rights
Popular Sovereignty
34. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Standard of living
Natural Barriers
domestic
Federalist Papers
35. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Barriers
Crusaders
Literacy Rate
Protestant Reformation
36. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Suez Canal
Federalism
Atlantic Slave Trade
Life Expectancy
37. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Magna Carta
Adam Smith
Renaissance
Consent of the Governed
38. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Magna Carta
Taxation
Basic Needs
Adam Smith
39. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
citizen
Founding of Jamestown
Industrial Revolution
Printing Press
40. To officially approve.
Separation of Powers
ratify
Adam Smith
English Bill of Rights
41. Split in the church
Silk Road
Abe Lincoln
Republicanism
Schism
42. 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
Cuneiform
Anti - Federalist
Fertile Crescent
Factory System
43. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
13th Amendment
Totalitarianism
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
44. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Anti - Federalists
George Washington
Industrial Revolution
Federalist Papers
45. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Republicanism
Standard of living
suburban
Absolute Monarchy
46. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Nullification Crisis
Renaissance
1787
Cotton Gin
47. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Popular Sovereignty
Republic
End of Reconstruction
urban
48. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Federalist Papers
subsistence agriculture
Oligarchy
49. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Subsistence agriculture
Plessy v. Ferguson
Migration
Capitalism/Market Economy
50. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
1776
13th Amendment
Mayflower Compact (1620)
unalienable