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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. Exchange of goods and services.
Civil War
Immigration patterns
Theocracy
trade
2. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Representative democracy
Bartering
cottage industry
Absolute Monarchy
3. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Bartering
14th Amendment
international
bias
4. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
George Washington
Articles of Confederation
amendment
Federalism
5. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
15th Amendment
1791
Karl Marx
(naval) blockade
6. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
95 Theses
Natural Barriers
Federalist Papers
Nullification Crisis
7. 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
Communism/Command Economy
Standard of living
1776
Thomas Jefferson
8. Making goods out of the home
Age of Reason
(naval) blockade
Justinian
Cottage industry
9. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Barriers
Direct Democracy
market - oriented agriculture
imports
10. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Factory System
Republic
Federalism
Industrial Revolution
11. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Separation of Powers .
Federalist Papers
unalienable
Enlightenment
12. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Humanism
Capitalism/Market Economy
colonists
era
13. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
14th Amendment
Federalist Papers
Cathedrals
Silk Road
14. All things that surround us.
Bubonic Plague
Renaissance
environment
13th Amendment
15. A government that elects its leaders
John Locke
1791
subsistence agriculture
Republic
16. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Fertile Crescent
Anti - Federalist
Basic Needs
federalism
17. First representative assembly in American
era
House of Burgesses
primary source
Force Bill
18. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Federalist Papers
Articles of Conf.
Industrialized
Emancipation Proclamation
19. King of England during the American Revolution.
colonists
Checks and Balances
rural
King George III
20. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
George Washington
Federalist
Bill of Rights
21. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Marbury v. Madison
Crusaders
Subsistence agriculture
Articles of Confederation
22. Who opposed the Constitution?
Suez Canal
Anti - Federalists
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mayflower Compact
23. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Federalism
13th Amendment
Bill of Rights
Straits of Hormuz
24. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
International Trade
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Cotton Gin
Industrialized
25. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Middle Ages
Indulgences
Immigration patterns
Plessy v. Ferguson
26. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Force Bill
George Washington
Limited Government
Immigration patterns
27. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
1787-1789
Famine
Montesquieu
Checks and Balances
28. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Emancipation Proclamation
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Barriers
Articles of Confederation
29. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
veto
Mesoamerica civilizations
Bill of Rights
Immigration patterns
30. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Anti - Federalists
Inalienable/Unalienable
Per Capita Income
Demographics
31. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Oligarchy
Straits of Hormuz
Printing Press
citizen
32. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Founding of Jamestown
English Bill of Rights
The Senate
Andean civilization
33. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Articles of Conf.
limited government
Bubonic Plague
Straits
34. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
domestic
Silk Road
Thomas Jefferson
Monotheism
35. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Panama Canal
Nullification Crisis
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Natural Barriers
36. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Magna Carta
Henry Ford
McCullough v. Maryland
urban
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.
Columbian Exchange
Infant Mortality
1787
(naval) blockade
38. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Bill of Rights
trade
imports
Mesoamerica civilizations
39. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Totalitarianism
Natural Barriers
English Bill of Rights
Constitutional Monarchy
40. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Barriers
Infant Mortality
Thomas Jefferson
Civil War
41. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Declaration of Independence
Fund. Order of Conn.
Cotton Gin
Capitalism/Market Economy
42. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Urban
Factory System
The Nullification Crisis
Federalist Papers
43. 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.
Mayflower Compact
urban
Articles of Confederation
Montesquieu
44. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Monarchy
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Hammurabi
45. President of the United States during the Civil War
Urban
Abraham Lincoln
Middle Ages
ziggurats
46. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Unconstitutional
Renaissance
George Washington
Schism
47. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Renaissance
Communism/Command Economy
Marbury v. Madison
1787-1789
48. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
colonists
Constitutional Monarchy
unalienable
49. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Founding of Jamestown
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Schism
Fertile Crescent
50. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Protestant Reformation
Bill of Rights
Thomas Jefferson
Natural Rights / Individual Rights