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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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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. Pride in ones country
Thomas Jefferson
market - oriented agriculture
Nationalism
1066
2. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
ziggurats
English Bill of Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
George Washington
3. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
1215
1791
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Middle Ages
4. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Separation of Powers .
Bubonic Plague
States Rights
Magna Carta
5. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
1066
Atlantic Slave Trade
Bubonic Plague
Magna Carta
6. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
suburban
suffrage
Absolute Monarchy
Plessy v. Ferguson
7. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Plessy v. Ferguson
Natural Barriers
Karl Marx
Fund. Order of Conn.
8. A government that elects its leaders
Republic
Anti - Federalist
Federalist Papers
1066
9. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
John Locke
Plessy v. Ferguson
Printing Press
Montesquieu
10. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Subsistence agriculture
cultural diffusion
era
Articles of Conf.
11. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Bill of Rights
Cathedrals
Demographics
Bill of Rights
12. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Protestant Reformation
Monroe doctrine
Panama Canal
Cathedrals
13. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
imports
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Declaration of Independence
cultural diffusion
14. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
1776
Separation of Powers
Ben Franklin
Federalist
15. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Industrialization
Marbury v. Madison
Representative Democracy
16. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Humanism
Commercial Agriculture
Mesoamerica civilizations
Force Bill
17. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Scientific Revolution
Subsistence agriculture
English Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers .
18. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
End of Reconstruction
Barriers
suburban
Checks and Balances
19. An official change to a law or document of government.
Federalism
Subsistence agriculture
Cottage industry
amendment
20. 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
King George III
International Trade
Communism/Command Economy
Renaissance
21. Average income per person
Enlightenment
Atlantic Slave Trade
Thomas Jefferson
Per Capita Income
22. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Self Determination
1215
Subsistence agriculture
Age of Reason
23. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
Totalitarianism
George Washington
English Bill of Rights
24. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
subsistence agriculture
Parliament
Marbury v. Madison
Suez Canal
25. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
International Trade
Traditional economy
tariff
The Nullification Crisis
26. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Life Expectancy
federalism
English Bill of Rights
Checks and Balances
27. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Absolute Monarchy
Subsistence economy
1066
Commercial Agriculture
28. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
George Washington
Imperialism
Enlightenment
U.S. Constitution
29. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
Traditional economy
Irrigation Canals
Separation of Powers .
30. Modern Constitution
U.S. Constitution
Emancipation Proclamation
Unconstitutional
Suez Canal
31. 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.
tariff
Articles of Confederation
13th Amendment
George Washington
32. Belief in many gods
bias
Polytheism
Magna Carta
Andean civilization
33. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
McCullough v. Maryland
1791
Checks and Balances
Constitutional Conv.
34. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Industrialized
Printing Press
Limited Government
Industrial Revolution
35. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Declaration of Independence
Federalist Papers
13th Amendment
Factory System
36. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Industrial Revolution
Longitude
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
37. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
15th Amendment
urban
English Bill of Rights
suburban
38. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Marbury v. Madison
Enlightenment
cottage industry
Winston Churchill
39. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
ratify
Industrial Revolution
Thomas Jefferson
Federalism
40. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
Commercial Agriculture
English Bill of Rights
Plessy v. Ferguson
41. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Oligarchy
U.S. Constitution
Panama Canal
Indulgences
42. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Basic Needs
Scientific Revolution
Communism/Command Economy
Industrialized
43. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Industrialization
Republicanism
George Washington
Republic
44. Government ruled by a few powerful people
John Locke
Representative democracy
Winston Churchill
Oligarchy
45. Belief in one god
Monotheism
Canals
Nationalism
Marbury v. Madison
46. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Republicanism
Montesquieu
Direct Democracy
tariff
47. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
(naval) blockade
Traditional economy
subsistence agriculture
48. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
John Locke
Natural Barriers
Republicanism
Age of Reason
49. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
Fund. Order of Conn.
Individual Rights
Industrialized
50. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Famine
Canals
imports