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TAKS 10th Grade World History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • 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.






2. Having industries for the machine production of goods






3. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.






4. Belief in many gods






5. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws






6. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.






7. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain






8. Belief in one god






9. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production






10. Split in the church






11. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.






12. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism






13. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia






14. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.






15. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves






16. Mountains - deserts and oceans






17. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.






18. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.






19. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water






20. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.






21. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.






22. Right of groups of people to create their own nation






23. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.






24. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness






25. 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






26. 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.






27. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education






28. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece






29. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.






30. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.






31. Small - scale production requiring little capital.






32. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.






33. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.






34. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies






35. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.






36. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code






37. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.






38. First representative assembly in American






39. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation






40. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.






41. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North






42. Member of a country.






43. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.






44. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property






45. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.






46. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution






47. Curbed States' Rights






48. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas






49. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.






50. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.