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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. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Crusaders
Humanism
13th Amendment
Labor force
2. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Cathedrals
international
International Trade
Draco
3. 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
Magna Carta
1215
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Communism/Command Economy
4. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Mesoamerica civilizations
Industrialized
Civil War 1861-1865
tariff
5. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Migration
Justinian
Marbury v. Madison
End of Reconstruction
6. Curbed States' Rights
Republicanism
14th Amendment
McCullough v. Maryland
limited government
7. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Popular Sovereignty
Federalism
Popular Sovereignty
trade
8. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Anti - Federalists
Constitutional Conv.
Monroe doctrine
Scientific Revolution
9. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
14th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
Totalitarianism
English Bill of Rights
10. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Representative Government
Republicanism
Oligarchy
English Bill of Rights
11. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Columbian Exchange
bias
Fertile Crescent
Henry Ford
12. Belief in one god
Monotheism
Inalienable/Unalienable
Cuneiform
Republic
13. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Fertile Crescent
1791
Republicanism
Parliament
14. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Plessy v. Ferguson
Magna Carta
Bubonic Plague
13th Amendment
15. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Standard of living
Magna Carta
George Washington
Basic Needs
16. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Justinian
Literacy Rate
Thomas Jefferson
Fund. Order of Conn.
17. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Articles of Confederation
Land Ordinance of 1785
Declaration of Independence
Enlightenment
18. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Individual Rights
Andean civilization
1776
Federalist Papers
19. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Articles of Confederation
unalienable
House of Burgesses
Articles of Conf.
20. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Andean civilization
(naval) blockade
veto
colonists
21. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
The Senate
Silk Road
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
George Washington
22. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Renaissance
Republicanism
Barriers
era
23. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Longitude
Constitutional Conv.
tariff
Parliament
24. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
cultural diffusion
Longitude
Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers .
25. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Humanism
The Nullification Crisis
Limited Government
Consent of the Governed
26. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Civil War
Suez Canal
Bill of Rights
Enlightenment
27. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Individual Rights
Federalist Papers
Oligarchy
Mesoamerica civilizations
28. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
veto
Separation of Powers .
Renaissance
29. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Mayflower Compact
Inalienable/Unalienable
Adam Smith
Cathedrals
30. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
suburban
subsistence agriculture
Standard of living
31. Who opposed the Constitution?
Anti - Federalists
Anti - Federalist
95 Theses
Protestant Reformation
32. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Bill of Rights
Nationalism
Draco
Cuneiform
33. All things that surround us.
environment
Mayflower Compact
John Locke
ratify
34. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
John Locke
Federalism
bias
Irrigation Canals
35. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abe Lincoln
15th Amendment
Scientific Revolution
Consent of the Governed
36. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
domestic
Migration
Articles of Confederation
Famine
37. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Thomas Jefferson
ziggurats
Parliament
McCullough v. Maryland
38. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Magna Carta
Commercial Agriculture
Mayflower Compact (1620)
George Washington
39. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Basic Needs
Parliament
Iron Curtain
Cottage industry
40. King/queen who has unlimited power
George Washington
15th Amendment
English Bill of Rights
Absolute Monarchy
41. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
level of development
Republicanism
Federalist Papers
Capitalism/Market Economy
42. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Articles of Conf.
George Washington
McCullough v. Maryland
Magna Carta
43. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Federalist Papers
Absolute Monarchy
Straits
Oligarchy
44. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Civil War
Federalist Papers
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
International Trade
45. First representative assembly in American
Schism
House of Burgesses
Separation of Powers
Renaissance
46. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Karl Marx
Oligarchy
Federalist Papers
Sub - Saharan Africa .
47. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Infant Mortality
Civil War 1861-1865
English Bill of Rights
exports
48. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
rural
standard of living
Basic Needs
Self Determination
49. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
(naval) blockade
George Washington
Treaty of Paris 1783
secondary source
50. Average number of years people live
Age of Reason
Schism
Indulgences
Life Expectancy