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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. Involving other countries
Communism/Command Economy
international
Checks and Balances
Abe Lincoln
2. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
End of Reconstruction
Bill of Rights
level of development
Irrigation Canals
3. Average number of years people live
The Senate
cultural diffusion
(naval) blockade
Life Expectancy
4. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Literacy Rate
Henry Ford
standard of living
Totalitarianism
5. President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
urban
Separation of Powers
suburban
6. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Suez Canal
Life Expectancy
English Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
7. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Scientific Revolution
suffrage
McCullough v. Maryland
Sub - Saharan Africa .
8. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
Polytheism
Winston Churchill
Declaration of Indepen.
9. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Checks and Balances
Literacy Rate
Republicanism
13th Amendment
10. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Mayflower Compact
Consent of the Governed
Barriers
George Washington
11. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
15th Amendment
Standard of living
imports
12. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Magna Carta
1776
Winston Churchill
13. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Anti - Federalist
Magna Carta
Infant Mortality
Articles of Confederation
14. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Articles of Conf.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Middle Ages
15. Officially ended the American Revolution
Industrialized
Self Determination
era
Treaty of Paris 1783
16. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
14th Amendment
Straits of Hormuz
Capitalism/Market Economy
17. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Printing Press
imports
Declaration of Indepen.
End of Reconstruction
18. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Age of Reason
Scientific Revolution
George Washington
The Nullification Crisis
19. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Industrial Revolution
grievance
Draco
Republic
20. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Totalitarianism
Henry Ford
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Basic Needs
21. 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
ziggurats
Communism/Command Economy
1787
22. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Enlightenment
States Rights
Declaration of Independence
Karl Marx
23. First representative assembly in American
House of Burgesses
suffrage
tariff
Theocracy
24. Exchange of goods and services.
trade
Consent of the Governed
13th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
25. 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.
Suez Canal
House of Burgesses
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
26. Split in the church
Demographics
Schism
Free - enterprise economic system
amendment
27. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Enlightenment
Suez Canal
Representative democracy
Individual Rights
28. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Justinian
Magnetic Compass
Famine
Civil War
29. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Bartering
cultural diffusion
cottage industry
Standard of living
30. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Thomas Jefferson
Suez Canal
Oligarchy
Inalienable/Unalienable
31. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Fertile Crescent
Commercial Agriculture
Cottage industry
Self Determination
32. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
Abe Lincoln
Magnetic Compass
Articles of Confederation
33. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
English Bill of Rights
Popular Sovereignty
Industrialized
34. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
Imperialism
Magna Carta
Columbian Exchange
35. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Indulgences
Fertile Crescent
Plessy v. Ferguson
Industrialization
36. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Bill of Rights
The Nullification Crisis
cottage industry
Popular Sovereignty
37. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Federalism
1066
Thomas Jefferson
Constitutional Monarchy
38. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Magna Carta
Civil War
Justinian
Federalism
39. King/queen who has unlimited power
Monroe doctrine
Declaration of Indepen.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Absolute Monarchy
40. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Straits of Hormuz
Abe Lincoln
English Bill of Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785
41. Proposed that a government should have 3 branches
Land Ordinance of 1785
Parliament
primary source
Montesquieu
42. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
subsistence agriculture
1215
urban
43. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
Federalist
English Bill of Rights
Hammurabi
44. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Industrial Revolution
Secularism
International Trade
45. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
The Senate
The Nullification Crisis
46. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Founding of Jamestown
Fertile Crescent
tariff
Middle Ages
47. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Scientific Revolution
nullify
Natural Barriers
Printing Press
48. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Middle Ages
Cotton Gin
English Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
49. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Irrigation Canals
Absolute Monarchy
International Trade
federalism
50. Having to do with one's own homeland
domestic
Age of Reason
Limited Government
veto