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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. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
bias
Winston Churchill
Representative Government
Straits of Hormuz
2. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Inalienable/Unalienable
Constitutional Monarchy
Force Bill
Straits
3. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Magnetic Compass
Literacy Rate
Basic Needs
Emancipation Proclamation
4. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
colonists
Longitude
Printing Press
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
5. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Nullification Crisis
Industrial Revolution
standard of living
6. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Cotton Gin
Bubonic Plague
Republicanism
veto
7. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
1776
Bill of Rights
15th Amendment
Totalitarianism
8. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Civil War
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
1863 Emancipation Pro
Hammurabi
9. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
15th Amendment
era
Brown v. Board of Edu.
House of Burgesses
10. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
Parliament
Declaration of Indepen.
Barriers
11. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
Immigration patterns
Limited Government
12. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Civil War
John Locke
The Senate
exports
13. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Republicanism
Civil War
Renaissance
Immigration patterns
14. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Printing Press
Mayflower Compact
U.S. Constitution
13th Amendment
15. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Per Capita Income
Self Determination
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Inalienable/Unalienable
16. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
environment
amendment
Limited Government
14th Amendment
17. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Plessy v. Ferguson
1791
Thomas Jefferson
Separation of Powers .
18. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Enlightenment
U.S. Constitution
Articles of Conf.
veto
19. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
secondary source
level of development
Mayflower Compact
20. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
End of Reconstruction
Longitude
Declaration of Independence
House of Burgesses
21. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Popular Sovereignty
Natural Barriers
Printing Press
standard of living
22. Split in the church
McCullough v. Maryland
Consent of the Governed
Schism
Popular Sovereignty
23. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
ziggurats
Magna Carta
Basic Needs
Indulgences
24. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Articles of Confederation
Industrialization
Natural Barriers
subsistence agriculture
25. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Self Determination
Popular Sovereignty
Adam Smith
Natural Barriers
26. 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.
Constitutional Monarchy
Taxation
Checks and Balances
1787-1789
27. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
1215
Checks and Balances
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Articles of Confederation
28. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Federalist
Articles of Confederation
Consent of the Governed
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
29. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Industrial Revolution
suffrage
Plessy v. Ferguson
Bill of Rights
30. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Industrial Revolution
Taxation
International Trade
Self Determination
31. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Suez Canal
Marbury v. Madison
Iron Curtain
Direct Democracy
32. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
1787-1789
Justinian
era
rural
33. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Limited Government
Articles of Confederation
1215
George Washington
34. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Taxation
nullify
amendment
Articles of Confederation
35. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Representative Democracy
Federalism
Limited Government
Constitutional Monarchy
36. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
colonists
Industrialized
Articles of Confederation
37. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Marbury v. Madison
Direct Democracy
Famine
14th Amendment
38. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Emancipation Proclamation
Bartering
Republic
Articles of Confederation
39. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Abe Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Secularism
40. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Cottage industry
Justinian
Nationalism
The Nullification Crisis
41. Curbed States' Rights
International Trade
McCullough v. Maryland
Life Expectancy
Popular Sovereignty
42. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
George Washington
secondary source
Representative democracy
Silk Road
43. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Migration
Limited Government
Mayflower Compact
Urban
44. Government where the religious leader run the government
Representative Government
Articles of Confederation
Hammurabi
Theocracy
45. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Magnetic Compass
Humanism
Representative Government
Federalist Papers
46. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
1215
Demographics
Straits of Hormuz
Free - enterprise economic system
47. President of the United States during the Civil War
Adam Smith
Articles of Confederation
Abraham Lincoln
14th Amendment
48. Limited the power of the King in 1215
1863 Emancipation Pro
Monroe doctrine
Magna Carta
Anti - Federalist
49. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Subsistence economy
Karl Marx
Constitutional Conv.
Marbury v. Madison
50. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
Separation of Powers
Winston Churchill
Age of Reason