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TAKS 10th Grade World History

Subjects : taks, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Involving other countries






2. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.






3. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade






4. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth






5. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere






6. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed






7. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.






8. Flat - horizontal lines on a map






9. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible






10. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.






11. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people






12. Having to do with one's own homeland






13. 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






14. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops






15. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.






16. Mass production of food






17. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves






18. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled






19. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)






20. Upheld the idea of separated but equal






21. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation






22. Curbed States' Rights






23. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.






24. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government






25. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon






26. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over






27. Period in Europe that began after the fall of the Roman Empire Characterized by feudalism - Roman Catholic Church was the unifier of the age with more power than Kings/Lords






28. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government






29. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.






30. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers






31. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.






32. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece






33. 1st written constitution






34. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.






35. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food






36. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.






37. 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.






38. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.






39. Small - scale production requiring little capital.






40. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'






41. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia






42. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.






43. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.






44. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.






45. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.






46. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.






47. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast






48. Up and down - vertical lines on a map






49. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code






50. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.