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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. 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
Hammurabi
Anti - Federalist
English Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers .
2. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Republicanism
Factory System
citizen
Marbury v. Madison
3. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
15th Amendment
Immigration patterns
English Bill of Rights
era
4. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Theocracy
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Declaration of Indepen.
International Trade
5. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Immigration patterns
ziggurats
Plessy v. Ferguson
Treaty of Paris 1783
6. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
The Nullification Crisis
Self Determination
Constitutional Conv.
7. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
standard of living
Federalist Papers
amendment
Imperialism
8. Limited the power of the King in 1215
14th Amendment
Infant Mortality
Magna Carta
Traditional economy
9. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Taxation
Traditional economy
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Abraham Lincoln
10. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
primary source
Bartering
Plessy v. Ferguson
environment
11. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Self Determination
Individual Rights
14th Amendment
Traditional economy
12. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Cottage industry
Age of Reason
Humanism
Articles of Confederation
13. Economic thinker that developed communism
Karl Marx
Unconstitutional
Suez Canal
Representative Government
14. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Force Bill
Migration
Karl Marx
Direct Democracy
15. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Industrial Revolution
Popular Sovereignty
Federalism
Straits
16. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
urban
End of Reconstruction
Limited Government
Ben Franklin
17. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
cottage industry
unalienable
Life Expectancy
Mayflower Compact (1620)
18. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
market - oriented agriculture
Barriers
Imperialism
Federalist
19. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Longitude
Thomas Jefferson
Straits
13th Amendment
20. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Mayflower Compact
cultural diffusion
federalism
Totalitarianism
21. To officially approve.
George Washington
environment
Monotheism
ratify
22. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Enlightenment
Schism
John Locke
Capitalism/Market Economy
23. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Industrialization
Nationalism
Life Expectancy
secondary source
24. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Humanism
Bill of Rights
Free - enterprise economic system
Articles of Confederation
25. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
14th Amendment
Fertile Crescent
Federalist
Federalism
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.
veto
Traditional economy
Free - enterprise economic system
Industrial Revolution
27. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Republic
Self Determination
Mesoamerica civilizations
Inalienable/Unalienable
28. Modern Constitution
U.S. Constitution
subsistence agriculture
Civil War
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
29. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
House of Burgesses
Representative Government
imports
Humanism
30. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
Bubonic Plague
Immigration patterns
Columbian Exchange
31. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Montesquieu
Cottage industry
unalienable
Federalist
32. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Nullification Crisis
international
Civil War 1861-1865
Capitalism/Market Economy
33. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Magna Carta
Renaissance
Fund. Order of Conn.
tariff
34. Tax on imports and exports.
U.S. Constitution
tariff
Consent of the Governed
Literacy Rate
35. Exchange of goods and services.
Republicanism
Limited Government
primary source
trade
36. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
The Senate
Federalist Papers
The Nullification Crisis
37. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
1215
colonists
Representative democracy
nullify
38. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Bill of Rights
nullify
Thomas Jefferson
Natural Barriers
39. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
The Nullification Crisis
Crusaders
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Articles of Confederation
40. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
1787
Bill of Rights
Bartering
Representative Democracy
41. Belief in one god
Henry Ford
Polytheism
1787
Monotheism
42. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
Republic
era
Plessy v. Ferguson
Bill of Rights
43. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Treaty of Paris 1783
Atlantic Slave Trade
Declaration of Indepen.
Articles of Confederation
44. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Subsistence agriculture
Self Determination
George Washington
Subsistence economy
45. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Theocracy
1066
Thomas Jefferson
Civil War
46. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Demographics
95 Theses
Fertile Crescent
Enlightenment
47. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
John Locke
Anti - Federalist
Plessy v. Ferguson
48. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
95 Theses
market - oriented agriculture
Subsistence economy
1863 Emancipation Pro
49. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Renaissance
Individual Rights
Standard of living
rural
50. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Civil War
Canals
Mayflower Compact
ratify