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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. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
suffrage
market - oriented agriculture
Cotton Gin
Articles of Confederation
2. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
level of development
George Washington
1791
Literacy Rate
3. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
exports
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Communism/Command Economy
Polytheism
4. Belief in one god
Cotton Gin
Monotheism
Draco
Enlightenment
5. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Republic
Limited Government
Secularism
Federalism
6. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Indulgences
Limited Government
Montesquieu
Cathedrals
7. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Thomas Jefferson
Representative democracy
Federalism
8. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
trade
Plessy v. Ferguson
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Separation of Powers
9. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Famine
Individual Rights
Industrial Revolution
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
10. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Industrialized
Bill of Rights
federalism
13th Amendment
11. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
cultural diffusion
rural
Oligarchy
Civil War
12. Split in the church
Bill of Rights
Schism
Straits of Hormuz
95 Theses
13. Average number of years people live
Life Expectancy
Barriers
Self Determination
Nullification Crisis
14. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Winston Churchill
Representative Government
Protestant Reformation
1066
15. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Scientific Revolution
14th Amendment
Oligarchy
Anti - Federalist
16. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Thomas Jefferson
federalism
Federalist Papers
Industrial Revolution
17. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Commercial Agriculture
Irrigation Canals
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Limited Government
18. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
tariff
Marbury v. Madison
Civil War
Totalitarianism
19. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Infant Mortality
95 Theses
Silk Road
Ben Franklin
20. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Self Determination
International Trade
Per Capita Income
Mayflower Compact (1620)
21. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
Federalist Papers
Per Capita Income
Treaty of Paris 1783
22. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Imperialism
King George III
Declaration of Indepen.
23. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Magna Carta
veto
Standard of living
tariff
24. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
urban
1863 Emancipation Pro
Literacy Rate
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
25. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Industrialization
13th Amendment
market - oriented agriculture
Andean civilization
26. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Anti - Federalists
Force Bill
Unconstitutional
international
27. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
imports
Federalist Papers
Immigration patterns
Plessy v. Ferguson
28. Modern Constitution
1066
U.S. Constitution
Polytheism
Representative Government
29. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Atlantic Slave Trade
Mayflower Compact
Barriers
30. Having to do with one's own homeland
exports
McCullough v. Maryland
domestic
Longitude
31. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Standard of living
rural
House of Burgesses
Henry Ford
32. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Straits
Bill of Rights
subsistence agriculture
Barriers
33. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Mayflower Compact
ziggurats
34. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Enlightenment
Unconstitutional
Abe Lincoln
Basic Needs
35. First organizing of 13 colonies.
English Bill of Rights
Articles of Conf.
Latitude
Unconstitutional
36. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Migration
Demographics
secondary source
Henry Ford
37. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Infant Mortality
citizen
Marbury v. Madison
Consent of the Governed
38. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Nationalism
Civil War 1861-1865
Federalist Papers
39. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
bias
Irrigation Canals
Cottage industry
subsistence agriculture
40. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Nullification Crisis
Canals
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Bill of Rights
41. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
bias
Imperialism
Subsistence agriculture
Federalist Papers
42. 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
Direct Democracy
Republicanism
Henry Ford
Silk Road
43. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
bias
Columbian Exchange
Republic
Middle Ages
44. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
cottage industry
Nationalism
Scientific Revolution
Adam Smith
45. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
Force Bill
Consent of the Governed
1215
46. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Capitalism/Market Economy
Draco
Force Bill
Traditional economy
47. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Indulgences
Representative Government
Middle Ages
1066
48. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Printing Press
environment
Industrial Revolution
Basic Needs
49. Pride in ones country
House of Burgesses
Nationalism
George Washington
Federalism
50. Established Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
Land Ordinance of 1785
The Senate
Natural Barriers