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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. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Emancipation Proclamation
Bill of Rights
Iron Curtain
George Washington
2. King of England during the American Revolution.
Plessy v. Ferguson
King George III
Limited Government
Age of Reason
3. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
suffrage
Emancipation Proclamation
Popular Sovereignty
Plessy v. Ferguson
4. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
George Washington
Immigration patterns
Popular Sovereignty
Crusaders
5. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Irrigation Canals
Direct Democracy
subsistence agriculture
urban
6. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Taxation
House of Burgesses
Checks and Balances
95 Theses
7. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Factory System
Humanism
Inalienable/Unalienable
8. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Marbury v. Madison
Cathedrals
Articles of Confederation
Printing Press
9. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
unalienable
federalism
John Locke
Checks and Balances
10. Who opposed the Constitution?
Canals
Articles of Confederation
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Anti - Federalists
11. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
(naval) blockade
cultural diffusion
Famine
Republic
12. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
subsistence agriculture
Individual Rights
Consent of the Governed
Industrialized
13. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Parliament
Infant Mortality
Secularism
era
14. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Federalist
Irrigation Canals
Demographics
1791
15. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Subsistence economy
English Bill of Rights
Constitutional Monarchy
Declaration of Independence
16. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Totalitarianism
Bill of Rights
era
English Bill of Rights
17. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Imperialism
Enlightenment
Secularism
Indulgences
18. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Draco
Natural Barriers
Communism/Command Economy
Straits
19. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Federalist
Federalist Papers
Brown v. Board of Edu.
English Bill of Rights
20. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Land Ordinance of 1785
Subsistence economy
grievance
Karl Marx
21. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Henry Ford
rural
nullify
Absolute Monarchy
22. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Basic Needs
Federalism
Republicanism
End of Reconstruction
23. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
international
Communism/Command Economy
Cotton Gin
Cuneiform
24. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Humanism
Constitutional Monarchy
George Washington
Industrialization
25. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
1787
Oligarchy
unalienable
26. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Taxation
Bill of Rights
Civil War 1861-1865
Irrigation Canals
27. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
States Rights
Bill of Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785
Karl Marx
28. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Industrialized
1787-1789
Absolute Monarchy
domestic
29. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Theocracy
Parliament
Renaissance
Brown v. Board of Edu.
30. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Basic Needs
Separation of Powers .
Life Expectancy
Latitude
31. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Labor force
13th Amendment
Monroe doctrine
Fund. Order of Conn.
32. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.
Representative democracy
Winston Churchill
Force Bill
Consent of the Governed
33. Split in the church
Emancipation Proclamation
Thomas Jefferson
Popular Sovereignty
Schism
34. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
imports
Natural Barriers
McCullough v. Maryland
Bartering
35. A government that elects its leaders
Per Capita Income
13th Amendment
Republic
Commercial Agriculture
36. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Federalist Papers
States Rights
Checks and Balances
Civil War
37. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Federalist
Taxation
Magnetic Compass
Civil War
38. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
Industrialization
Emancipation Proclamation
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Federalism
39. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
Panama Canal
environment
40. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
Andean civilization
1776
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Humanism
41. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Totalitarianism
1791
Straits of Hormuz
Magna Carta
42. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
cottage industry
suffrage
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Subsistence economy
43. Mass production of food
Theocracy
George Washington
Commercial Agriculture
House of Burgesses
44. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers .
Totalitarianism
Sub - Saharan Africa .
45. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Magnetic Compass
Thomas Jefferson
Separation of Powers
The Nullification Crisis
46. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Infant Mortality
veto
Plessy v. Ferguson
Enlightenment
47. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Marbury v. Madison
15th Amendment
Federalism
Bartering
48. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Communism/Command Economy
environment
Straits of Hormuz
Canals
49. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Articles of Conf.
Checks and Balances
15th Amendment
1791
50. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Mayflower Compact
King George III
Draco
Monotheism