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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. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Republicanism
ratify
Individual Rights
Thomas Jefferson
2. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Federalism
Federalist Papers
Draco
Individual Rights
3. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
grievance
Republic
Scientific Revolution
Limited Government
4. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
Ben Franklin
Unconstitutional
amendment
5. Modern Constitution
colonists
secondary source
Age of Exploration & Colonization
U.S. Constitution
6. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Crusaders
Panama Canal
English Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
7. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Subsistence economy
Andean civilization
Enlightenment
Marbury v. Madison
8. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Unconstitutional
George Washington
Monroe doctrine
Standard of living
9. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
House of Burgesses
unalienable
bias
Separation of Powers
10. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Montesquieu
Migration
Silk Road
International Trade
11. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Bubonic Plague
George Washington
Articles of Confederation
(naval) blockade
12. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Draco
Indulgences
Mayflower Compact
Bill of Rights
13. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
suffrage
nullify
Bill of Rights
International Trade
14. Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Civil War
ziggurats
George Washington
15. Making goods out of the home
Cottage industry
Land Ordinance of 1785
Justinian
veto
16. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Bill of Rights
Abe Lincoln
Famine
Bubonic Plague
17. Average number of years people live
domestic
Life Expectancy
Representative Government
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
18. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Constitutional Monarchy
Federalism
Humanism
George Washington
19. Complaints
Consent of the Governed
English Bill of Rights
citizen
grievance
20. 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
Emancipation Proclamation
Mayflower Compact
Columbian Exchange
Totalitarianism
21. Established Judicial Review.
Latitude
U.S. Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Urban
22. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Anti - Federalists
imports
Cuneiform
Mayflower Compact
23. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Civil War 1861-1865
Mayflower Compact
Crusaders
Parliament
24. 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
Popular Sovereignty
Marbury v. Madison
Montesquieu
25. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
tariff
George Washington
Panama Canal
Founding of Jamestown
26. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Consent of the Governed
Plessy v. Ferguson
ziggurats
Longitude
27. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Famine
Barriers
Subsistence agriculture
Humanism
28. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Cuneiform
Federalist Papers
Capitalism/Market Economy
Urban
29. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
colonists
Self Determination
era
Hammurabi
30. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Fertile Crescent
1863 Emancipation Pro
Representative Democracy
secondary source
31. Involving other countries
federalism
Republicanism
Industrialized
international
32. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Famine
Republic
Constitutional Conv.
1066
33. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Individual Rights
1215
(naval) blockade
Henry Ford
34. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalism
Separation of Powers .
Fund. Order of Conn.
Federalist Papers
35. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
(naval) blockade
Checks and Balances
Adam Smith
Mayflower Compact
36. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Longitude
Industrial Revolution
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Separation of Powers
37. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
1863 Emancipation Pro
ziggurats
Monotheism
Cathedrals
38. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Direct Democracy
Age of Reason
Federalist
Cottage industry
39. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Migration
Magna Carta
imports
George Washington
40. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
federalism
Polytheism
Limited Government
Irrigation Canals
41. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
1776
Winston Churchill
rural
Straits of Hormuz
42. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
George Washington
English Bill of Rights
Henry Ford
1791
43. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Scientific Revolution
(naval) blockade
Irrigation Canals
Mayflower Compact (1620)
44. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Articles of Confederation
Fertile Crescent
15th Amendment
Constitutional Monarchy
45. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Declaration of Independence
14th Amendment
Labor force
Popular Sovereignty
46. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Bartering
limited government
Thomas Jefferson
cultural diffusion
47. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Checks and Balances
trade
Anti - Federalists
Justinian
48. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
Factory System
Unconstitutional
End of Reconstruction
49. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
Montesquieu
Demographics
Articles of Confederation
50. Officially ended the American Revolution
House of Burgesses
English Bill of Rights
Treaty of Paris 1783
13th Amendment