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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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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. 1st written constitution
Winston Churchill
Inalienable/Unalienable
Fund. Order of Conn.
Constitutional Monarchy
2. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Capitalism/Market Economy
urban
Mayflower Compact
Bill of Rights
3. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Popular Sovereignty
Capitalism/Market Economy
Cotton Gin
imports
4. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Basic Needs
Suez Canal
Middle Ages
5. This is also referred to as a city
Founding of Jamestown
Capitalism/Market Economy
Hammurabi
Urban
6. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
Cotton Gin
14th Amendment
Suez Canal
7. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Subsistence economy
English Bill of Rights
Enlightenment
1776
8. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Scientific Revolution
15th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
1863 Emancipation Pro
9. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Separation of Powers
Representative democracy
Immigration patterns
Commercial Agriculture
10. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
13th Amendment
1863 Emancipation Pro
Taxation
1787-1789
11. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Monroe doctrine
Separation of Powers .
Articles of Conf.
ratify
12. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Self Determination
Articles of Confederation
Representative Democracy
Industrialization
13. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
McCullough v. Maryland
Separation of Powers
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Irrigation Canals
14. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Natural Barriers
Cuneiform
Republic
Land Ordinance of 1785
15. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Popular Sovereignty
Migration
Oligarchy
Straits
16. Exchange of goods and services.
13th Amendment
Indulgences
trade
Crusaders
17. All things that surround us.
Popular Sovereignty
environment
14th Amendment
Federalist Papers
18. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
The Senate
Cuneiform
ziggurats
Brown v. Board of Edu.
19. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Henry Ford
subsistence agriculture
domestic
Sub - Saharan Africa .
20. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
International Trade
Civil War 1861-1865
Self Determination
21. King/queen who has unlimited power
Absolute Monarchy
limited government
Declaration of Independence
Scientific Revolution
22. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Unconstitutional
Parliament
standard of living
Atlantic Slave Trade
23. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Checks and Balances
secondary source
federalism
Thomas Jefferson
24. Belief in many gods
Traditional economy
Taxation
colonists
Polytheism
25. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
imports
(naval) blockade
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
26. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Civil War
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Declaration of Independence
Longitude
27. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Subsistence agriculture
Mayflower Compact (1620)
1791
Representative democracy
28. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
14th Amendment
Andean civilization
era
Articles of Conf.
29. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Subsistence agriculture
George Washington
Representative democracy
Popular Sovereignty
30. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
Columbian Exchange
Polytheism
cultural diffusion
Suez Canal
31. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Free - enterprise economic system
George Washington
Bartering
Articles of Confederation
32. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Parliament
grievance
Emancipation Proclamation
Magnetic Compass
33. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Industrialized
Bill of Rights
Hammurabi
Enlightenment
34. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
primary source
Consent of the Governed
Montesquieu
House of Burgesses
35. First representative assembly in American
1215
tariff
Popular Sovereignty
House of Burgesses
36. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Republic
bias
Demographics
1066
37. 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.
Articles of Confederation
Individual Rights
House of Burgesses
Renaissance
38. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Winston Churchill
Literacy Rate
Hammurabi
14th Amendment
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
Draco
Free - enterprise economic system
Subsistence agriculture
95 Theses
40. Split in the church
Suez Canal
Irrigation Canals
Schism
Atlantic Slave Trade
41. Having to do with one's own homeland
Representative Government
exports
Demographics
domestic
42. Curbed States' Rights
Hammurabi
McCullough v. Maryland
Capitalism/Market Economy
Emancipation Proclamation
43. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
House of Burgesses
Marbury v. Madison
Absolute Monarchy
Communism/Command Economy
44. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Magna Carta
Civil War
Cathedrals
Limited Government
45. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Mayflower Compact
Suez Canal
Renaissance
14th Amendment
46. Government where the religious leader run the government
Magna Carta
Theocracy
Demographics
Per Capita Income
47. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
15th Amendment
Civil War 1861-1865
Abraham Lincoln
Land Ordinance of 1785
48. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
ziggurats
Mayflower Compact (1620)
rural
Monotheism
49. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Demographics
Marbury v. Madison
Scientific Revolution
Basic Needs
50. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Magna Carta
Imperialism
Magnetic Compass
urban