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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.
imports
bias
Industrial Revolution
Secularism
2. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Civil War 1861-1865
Federalism
Consent of the Governed
Articles of Confederation
3. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Life Expectancy
primary source
Adam Smith
Silk Road
4. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Renaissance
Straits of Hormuz
Plessy v. Ferguson
John Locke
5. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Separation of Powers
Bill of Rights
rural
Limited Government
6. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
Limited Government
13th Amendment
Per Capita Income
7. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
colonists
Unconstitutional
Mayflower Compact
Andean civilization
8. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Humanism
Barriers
Renaissance
Crusaders
9. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Justinian
suffrage
Checks and Balances
10. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
English Bill of Rights
Straits of Hormuz
Longitude
Separation of Powers
11. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
Popular Sovereignty
Free - enterprise economic system
Plessy v. Ferguson
12. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Oligarchy
Barriers
Brown v. Board of Edu.
George Washington
13. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Limited Government
suffrage
Declaration of Indepen.
14th Amendment
14. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Literacy Rate
Thomas Jefferson
Consent of the Governed
Force Bill
15. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Immigration patterns
13th Amendment
Suez Canal
Checks and Balances
16. President of the United States during the Civil War
Straits of Hormuz
Civil War
bias
Abraham Lincoln
17. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Columbian Exchange
Per Capita Income
Anti - Federalists
Federalist Papers
18. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Plessy v. Ferguson
Bubonic Plague
Cathedrals
Schism
19. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Taxation
Indulgences
Federalism
Republicanism
20. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Magna Carta
Theocracy
Popular Sovereignty
21. Who opposed the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
Iron Curtain
Anti - Federalists
Bartering
22. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
era
trade
The Senate
Straits
23. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Age of Reason
Capitalism/Market Economy
English Bill of Rights
Crusaders
24. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Self Determination
Henry Ford
25. People who settle and live in a colony
Imperialism
colonists
Protestant Reformation
15th Amendment
26. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Migration
U.S. Constitution
House of Burgesses
27. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Latitude
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Anti - Federalist
Republic
28. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
1863 Emancipation Pro
Bill of Rights
limited government
Atlantic Slave Trade
29. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Polytheism
Migration
Cotton Gin
Founding of Jamestown
30. Average income per person
Enlightenment
secondary source
Schism
Per Capita Income
31. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
(naval) blockade
Industrialized
Treaty of Paris 1783
Age of Reason
32. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Infant Mortality
Constitutional Monarchy
1791
Separation of Powers .
33. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
cottage industry
Civil War
Irrigation Canals
House of Burgesses
34. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Factory System
14th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Emancipation Proclamation
35. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
imports
Civil War 1861-1865
Free - enterprise economic system
36. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Individual Rights
standard of living
Subsistence economy
Constitutional Conv.
37. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Declaration of Indepen.
Migration
ziggurats
15th Amendment
38. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Declaration of Independence
Civil War 1861-1865
Nullification Crisis
House of Burgesses
39. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.
1787
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Silk Road
Federalism
40. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
George Washington
Federalist Papers
Federalist
13th Amendment
41. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
Barriers
primary source
Individual Rights
Industrialization
42. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Ben Franklin
Monroe doctrine
Absolute Monarchy
Fertile Crescent
43. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
House of Burgesses
Civil War
bias
Famine
44. Pride in ones country
trade
market - oriented agriculture
Nationalism
Protestant Reformation
45. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Republicanism
Nationalism
Draco
Demographics
46. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
The Senate
Popular Sovereignty
Articles of Conf.
47. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Traditional economy
urban
1787-1789
Federalism
48. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
1787
House of Burgesses
Migration
Thomas Jefferson
49. 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
Inalienable/Unalienable
Checks and Balances
The Nullification Crisis
50. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Mesoamerica civilizations
1863 Emancipation Pro
Declaration of Indepen.
Monotheism