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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. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
1863 Emancipation Pro
Constitutional Monarchy
Straits
Taxation
2. King/queen who has unlimited power
Per Capita Income
Representative democracy
Parliament
Absolute Monarchy
3. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Individual Rights
Mesoamerica civilizations
Emancipation Proclamation
cultural diffusion
4. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Limited Government
Declaration of Independence
Individual Rights
Federalist
5. Belief in one god
Monotheism
Henry Ford
Thomas Jefferson
Canals
6. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Canals
Separation of Powers
cottage industry
Checks and Balances
7. 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.
Commercial Agriculture
market - oriented agriculture
Bill of Rights
primary source
8. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
George Washington
Articles of Confederation
1787-1789
Plessy v. Ferguson
9. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Barriers
Federalism
Karl Marx
Basic Needs
10. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
trade
The Nullification Crisis
Humanism
cultural diffusion
11. Curbed States' Rights
King George III
McCullough v. Maryland
Articles of Confederation
Industrial Revolution
12. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
Bill of Rights
Columbian Exchange
Imperialism
13. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
Cotton Gin
ratify
Basic Needs
14. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Crusaders
Articles of Confederation
English Bill of Rights
Checks and Balances
15. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Articles of Confederation
15th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Anti - Federalist
16. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Per Capita Income
Iron Curtain
95 Theses
The Nullification Crisis
17. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
Articles of Confederation
Labor force
Articles of Confederation
18. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Anti - Federalist
Theocracy
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
1066
19. 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.
Limited Government
unalienable
Free - enterprise economic system
Inalienable/Unalienable
20. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
George Washington
Renaissance
1791
Magna Carta
21. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
Parliament
Self Determination
John Locke
22. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
Enlightenment
Force Bill
Articles of Confederation
23. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Abe Lincoln
grievance
bias
House of Burgesses
24. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Representative democracy
Basic Needs
Republic
The Senate
25. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
1787-1789
1066
Free - enterprise economic system
26. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Protestant Reformation
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Bartering
Ben Franklin
27. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Traditional economy
Latitude
Draco
Popular Sovereignty
28. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Self Determination
ratify
Totalitarianism
Polytheism
29. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Columbian Exchange
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Representative Government
Mayflower Compact
30. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
ratify
Enlightenment
Unconstitutional
Marbury v. Madison
31. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
The Nullification Crisis
Imperialism
trade
Absolute Monarchy
32. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
standard of living
Monotheism
Thomas Jefferson
Treaty of Paris 1783
33. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Magna Carta
(naval) blockade
Inalienable/Unalienable
Subsistence agriculture
34. 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.
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
1787
Checks and Balances
Latitude
35. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Cotton Gin
Age of Exploration & Colonization
market - oriented agriculture
Famine
36. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Direct Democracy
Bill of Rights
15th Amendment
1066
37. President of the United States during the Civil War
Magna Carta
Plessy v. Ferguson
Abraham Lincoln
Standard of living
38. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Mayflower Compact
Emancipation Proclamation
Articles of Confederation
Civil War
39. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Natural Barriers
Mayflower Compact
Taxation
Federalist
40. 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
Industrialized
Communism/Command Economy
1066
secondary source
41. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
Popular Sovereignty
grievance
Plessy v. Ferguson
42. 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
Communism/Command Economy
1215
ratify
Anti - Federalist
43. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Protestant Reformation
1863 Emancipation Pro
Industrialization
Federalist Papers
44. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Renaissance
Representative Government
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Migration
45. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Andean civilization
Representative Democracy
Federalist Papers
grievance
46. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Fertile Crescent
Separation of Powers .
Monroe doctrine
Imperialism
47. Involving other countries
international
Mayflower Compact
Commercial Agriculture
Columbian Exchange
48. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Andean civilization
Winston Churchill
English Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
49. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Individual Rights
Monroe doctrine
Federalist Papers
The Nullification Crisis
50. Exchange of goods and services.
exports
veto
Civil War
trade