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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. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
level of development
(naval) blockade
Irrigation Canals
Crusaders
2. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
cottage industry
subsistence agriculture
Draco
Parliament
3. 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
colonists
English Bill of Rights
Communism/Command Economy
Marbury v. Madison
4. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Secularism
Winston Churchill
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Oligarchy
5. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Mayflower Compact
Founding of Jamestown
Basic Needs
Representative Democracy
6. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Force Bill
Industrialized
Suez Canal
Civil War 1861-1865
7. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Representative democracy
Imperialism
Federalist Papers
8. Officially ended the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783
Industrialization
Free - enterprise economic system
1791
9. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
secondary source
Force Bill
Declaration of Independence
The Senate
10. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
1791
Barriers
Theocracy
House of Burgesses
11. 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
citizen
Immigration patterns
Anti - Federalist
market - oriented agriculture
12. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Taxation
Republic
Declaration of Indepen.
Secularism
13. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Treaty of Paris 1783
Subsistence economy
Federalist Papers
Brown v. Board of Edu.
14. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
primary source
Declaration of Independence
Cathedrals
Basic Needs
15. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
1776
Polytheism
Barriers
Atlantic Slave Trade
16. Average number of years people live
Life Expectancy
Free - enterprise economic system
Mayflower Compact
Representative Democracy
17. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
14th Amendment
Federalism
ratify
Longitude
18. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
95 Theses
14th Amendment
veto
19. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
amendment
1863 Emancipation Pro
English Bill of Rights
20. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Federalism
States Rights
Constitutional Conv.
Cathedrals
21. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Bubonic Plague
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
suburban
exports
22. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Federalism
Standard of living
market - oriented agriculture
Popular Sovereignty
23. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
grievance
95 Theses
trade
24. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Literacy Rate
The Senate
Natural Barriers
Barriers
25. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Limited Government
13th Amendment
tariff
26. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
veto
House of Burgesses
Factory System
limited government
27. Complaints
95 Theses
grievance
nullify
Justinian
28. To officially approve.
Commercial Agriculture
Representative Government
ratify
15th Amendment
29. 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.
Subsistence agriculture
Direct Democracy
Free - enterprise economic system
Emancipation Proclamation
30. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Industrialization
15th Amendment
Irrigation Canals
Magna Carta
31. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Industrial Revolution
Enlightenment
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
George Washington
32. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Enlightenment
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Factory System
federalism
33. Modern Constitution
bias
Ben Franklin
U.S. Constitution
Columbian Exchange
34. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
1787
Migration
Karl Marx
35. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
U.S. Constitution
Self Determination
1776
Famine
36. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Iron Curtain
Popular Sovereignty
primary source
Subsistence agriculture
37. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Separation of Powers .
Representative democracy
Adam Smith
Parliament
38. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Civil War
Standard of living
Individual Rights
End of Reconstruction
39. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
States Rights
Popular Sovereignty
rural
Draco
40. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Thomas Jefferson
Republic
suffrage
George Washington
41. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
14th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
unalienable
Renaissance
42. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Articles of Confederation
Abe Lincoln
Industrialized
imports
43. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
nullify
Infant Mortality
Anti - Federalist
1863 Emancipation Pro
44. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Cathedrals
Thomas Jefferson
trade
Suez Canal
45. 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
Limited Government
English Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
Columbian Exchange
46. Government where the religious leader run the government
Basic Needs
Per Capita Income
George Washington
Theocracy
47. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Anti - Federalists
Urban
Mesoamerica civilizations
Straits of Hormuz
48. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Bubonic Plague
Civil War
English Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
49. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
domestic
Indulgences
Civil War
50. A written plan of government for the colonies created a weak league of 13 nearly independent states in 1777. The 1st Constitution of the U.S.
Articles of Confederation
Plessy v. Ferguson
Thomas Jefferson
King George III