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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. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
1787
Famine
Renaissance
Canals
2. Average income per person
Urban
Theocracy
Parliament
Per Capita Income
3. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
limited government
Checks and Balances
Republic
Basic Needs
4. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
Enlightenment
Panama Canal
Cotton Gin
5. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
tariff
Unconstitutional
Schism
Separation of Powers
6. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Ben Franklin
International Trade
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Straits of Hormuz
7. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Inalienable/Unalienable
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
14th Amendment
Magna Carta
8. Involving other countries
international
cultural diffusion
Plessy v. Ferguson
suffrage
9. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Secularism
Literacy Rate
Andean civilization
Silk Road
10. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
End of Reconstruction
trade
Longitude
Free - enterprise economic system
11. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Straits of Hormuz
End of Reconstruction
Plessy v. Ferguson
Basic Needs
12. King of England during the American Revolution.
Theocracy
Literacy Rate
States Rights
King George III
13. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Oligarchy
Industrialization
unalienable
Civil War
14. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Atlantic Slave Trade
urban
Individual Rights
15th Amendment
15. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
unalienable
States Rights
Andean civilization
Constitutional Conv.
16. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Republicanism
King George III
Abraham Lincoln
17. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
14th Amendment
English Bill of Rights
Civil War
Fertile Crescent
18. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
English Bill of Rights
Popular Sovereignty
John Locke
Factory System
19. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Civil War 1861-1865
Urban
Federalism
Representative Government
20. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Renaissance
Representative Government
Anti - Federalist
Sub - Saharan Africa .
21. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Individual Rights
Enlightenment
Printing Press
Checks and Balances
22. King/queen who has unlimited power
ziggurats
English Bill of Rights
Absolute Monarchy
Canals
23. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
1787-1789
Federalist
Migration
24. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Industrial Revolution
Demographics
imports
Nationalism
25. This is also referred to as a city
Urban
Migration
Factory System
Natural Barriers
26. To officially approve.
Crusaders
era
ratify
Capitalism/Market Economy
27. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Irrigation Canals
Renaissance
Protestant Reformation
Suez Canal
28. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Emancipation Proclamation
standard of living
Per Capita Income
Thomas Jefferson
29. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Checks and Balances
subsistence agriculture
Atlantic Slave Trade
Demographics
30. 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.
Individual Rights
Free - enterprise economic system
Schism
Traditional economy
31. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
exports
Articles of Conf.
Latitude
32. Government where the religious leader run the government
Land Ordinance of 1785
Popular Sovereignty
Theocracy
Magna Carta
33. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
Declaration of Independence
Inalienable/Unalienable
subsistence agriculture
34. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Theocracy
George Washington
Enlightenment
bias
35. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Land Ordinance of 1785
Subsistence economy
International Trade
Marbury v. Madison
36. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
Communism/Command Economy
37. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Per Capita Income
Famine
Popular Sovereignty
Enlightenment
38. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
Popular Sovereignty
Andean civilization
Enlightenment
39. 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
1863 Emancipation Pro
Urban
Basic Needs
Columbian Exchange
40. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Civil War 1861-1865
Scientific Revolution
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Constitutional Monarchy
41. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Mayflower Compact
Federalist Papers
Magna Carta
Parliament
42. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Marbury v. Madison
Demographics
Thomas Jefferson
Federalism
43. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Justinian
Bill of Rights
Fund. Order of Conn.
The Senate
44. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
ratify
subsistence agriculture
Limited Government
imports
45. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Articles of Confederation
Limited Government
House of Burgesses
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
46. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Labor force
The Senate
tariff
English Bill of Rights
47. 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
1066
Anti - Federalist
Life Expectancy
Brown v. Board of Edu.
48. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
tariff
Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy
Self Determination
49. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Separation of Powers
Bubonic Plague
Representative Government
Subsistence economy
50. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Marbury v. Madison
Republic
Protestant Reformation