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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. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
15th Amendment
Representative Democracy
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
cultural diffusion
2. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
ratify
Popular Sovereignty
Henry Ford
Representative democracy
3. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
English Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
George Washington
4. Modern Constitution
Demographics
U.S. Constitution
Communism/Command Economy
urban
5. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Parliament
Demographics
95 Theses
Republicanism
6. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Mayflower Compact (1620)
subsistence agriculture
Federalist Papers
Magna Carta
7. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Civil War
Mayflower Compact
Monroe doctrine
secondary source
8. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Subsistence agriculture
Magna Carta
Winston Churchill
Natural Barriers
9. Belief in one god
Humanism
Checks and Balances
Monotheism
Marbury v. Madison
10. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Longitude
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
colonists
11. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Imperialism
Representative Government
Representative democracy
standard of living
12. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
Mayflower Compact
Montesquieu
subsistence agriculture
13. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Magna Carta
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Republic
14. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Irrigation Canals
Natural Barriers
13th Amendment
15. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Protestant Reformation
Iron Curtain
Cuneiform
(naval) blockade
16. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Articles of Confederation
Justinian
Republic
Cotton Gin
17. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
primary source
Bill of Rights
Parliament
Renaissance
18. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Thomas Jefferson
1066
Bill of Rights
Individual Rights
19. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Civil War 1861-1865
Separation of Powers .
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Commercial Agriculture
20. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
1787-1789
Bubonic Plague
Monroe doctrine
Adam Smith
21. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Taxation
End of Reconstruction
international
Scientific Revolution
22. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
Magnetic Compass
Civil War
Absolute Monarchy
23. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
House of Burgesses
1787-1789
level of development
Consent of the Governed
24. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Factory System
Andean civilization
Individual Rights
Totalitarianism
25. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
Magnetic Compass
primary source
Republic
26. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Panama Canal
Inalienable/Unalienable
Karl Marx
Individual Rights
27. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
citizen
Humanism
Federalist
28. Average income per person
Literacy Rate
Polytheism
Per Capita Income
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
29. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Polytheism
Civil War
Unconstitutional
Civil War 1861-1865
30. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
McCullough v. Maryland
market - oriented agriculture
15th Amendment
Unconstitutional
31. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
English Bill of Rights
Industrialization
Industrial Revolution
Suez Canal
32. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Constitutional Monarchy
Factory System
Representative democracy
Winston Churchill
33. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
secondary source
King George III
14th Amendment
Iron Curtain
34. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Republic
Civil War
Cuneiform
Barriers
35. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Popular Sovereignty
cultural diffusion
Magna Carta
36. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Montesquieu
nullify
exports
37. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Imperialism
Humanism
Emancipation Proclamation
Magnetic Compass
38. 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
Bill of Rights
amendment
Panama Canal
Columbian Exchange
39. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Nullification Crisis
exports
Constitutional Monarchy
Enlightenment
40. Mass production of food
Henry Ford
Civil War 1861-1865
Commercial Agriculture
citizen
41. Split in the church
Representative democracy
Schism
secondary source
95 Theses
42. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
14th Amendment
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
George Washington
(naval) blockade
43. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Civil War
13th Amendment
Federalism
King George III
44. A government that elects its leaders
Republic
The Senate
Separation of Powers
Popular Sovereignty
45. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Famine
Andean civilization
Straits
46. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.
citizen
unalienable
Force Bill
Bubonic Plague
47. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Labor force
Articles of Confederation
George Washington
level of development
48. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
U.S. Constitution
Plessy v. Ferguson
Absolute Monarchy
Cuneiform
49. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Silk Road
Magna Carta
bias
50. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Monotheism
Marbury v. Madison
Republicanism
Nationalism