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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. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Fund. Order of Conn.
Federalist
95 Theses
Straits of Hormuz
2. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Cottage industry
Fertile Crescent
environment
Ben Franklin
3. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
bias
1776
Limited Government
95 Theses
4. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Emancipation Proclamation
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Abe Lincoln
subsistence agriculture
5. These slow down movement/migration
Civil War
Urban
Articles of Confederation
Barriers
6. An official change to a law or document of government.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Canals
amendment
colonists
7. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
House of Burgesses
Plessy v. Ferguson
Unconstitutional
8. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Henry Ford
Indulgences
Hammurabi
Bill of Rights
9. First representative assembly in American
1791
House of Burgesses
ratify
Latitude
10. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Urban
Demographics
unalienable
The Nullification Crisis
11. All things that surround us.
environment
Individual Rights
Fertile Crescent
Life Expectancy
12. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
level of development
Articles of Confederation
Plessy v. Ferguson
urban
13. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
English Bill of Rights
Labor force
Infant Mortality
Representative Democracy
14. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Articles of Conf.
Individual Rights
limited government
1787-1789
15. 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
Crusaders
Communism/Command Economy
15th Amendment
George Washington
16. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Mayflower Compact
Founding of Jamestown
Republicanism
Columbian Exchange
17. President of the United States during the Civil War
Founding of Jamestown
Immigration patterns
Abraham Lincoln
Articles of Confederation
18. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
Migration
Natural Barriers
George Washington
19. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Indulgences
Magna Carta
suburban
colonists
20. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Popular Sovereignty
Standard of living
Cuneiform
Separation of Powers
21. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Imperialism
Plessy v. Ferguson
Labor force
22. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
English Bill of Rights
Age of Exploration & Colonization
federalism
suburban
23. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
Parliament
Indulgences
Representative Democracy
24. Having to do with one's own homeland
Absolute Monarchy
George Washington
Capitalism/Market Economy
domestic
25. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Declaration of Indepen.
Communism/Command Economy
George Washington
Direct Democracy
26. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Bubonic Plague
15th Amendment
Imperialism
27. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Adam Smith
standard of living
Abraham Lincoln
Scientific Revolution
28. Curbed States' Rights
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Republic
Adam Smith
McCullough v. Maryland
29. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Individual Rights
Fund. Order of Conn.
Latitude
Representative Democracy
30. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Factory System
veto
Emancipation Proclamation
End of Reconstruction
31. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
bias
Infant Mortality
Industrialization
Mayflower Compact
32. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
14th Amendment
nullify
federalism
1791
33. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
amendment
Per Capita Income
Justinian
Federalist
34. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Silk Road
Mesoamerica civilizations
35. 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.
colonists
Unconstitutional
Articles of Confederation
Mayflower Compact (1620)
36. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
grievance
Magna Carta
Republic
37. 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.
Marbury v. Madison
House of Burgesses
1787
1776
38. Modern Constitution
Natural Barriers
Inalienable/Unalienable
Polytheism
U.S. Constitution
39. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
colonists
Life Expectancy
English Bill of Rights
Plessy v. Ferguson
40. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Protestant Reformation
Industrial Revolution
Iron Curtain
Famine
41. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
13th Amendment
ratify
Communism/Command Economy
imports
42. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
13th Amendment
King George III
43. Mass production of food
Commercial Agriculture
John Locke
Civil War
Inalienable/Unalienable
44. Average number of years people live
Migration
Imperialism
Life Expectancy
Representative democracy
45. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
urban
Cathedrals
Absolute Monarchy
rural
46. Who opposed the Constitution?
Infant Mortality
Anti - Federalists
Popular Sovereignty
Protestant Reformation
47. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Standard of living
Cotton Gin
citizen
The Senate
48. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Treaty of Paris 1783
Self Determination
95 Theses
49. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
1215
ratify
Marbury v. Madison
Abraham Lincoln
50. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
English Bill of Rights
Polytheism
Sub - Saharan Africa .
urban