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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. 1st written constitution
Fund. Order of Conn.
Scientific Revolution
Imperialism
Totalitarianism
2. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.
Representative Government
1787
John Locke
Immigration patterns
3. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
Absolute Monarchy
Inalienable/Unalienable
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
4. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Age of Reason
Monotheism
Enlightenment
Imperialism
5. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
1066
Checks and Balances
Iron Curtain
Age of Exploration & Colonization
6. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Separation of Powers .
Fertile Crescent
Secularism
Magna Carta
7. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Straits
Draco
Inalienable/Unalienable
Communism/Command Economy
8. Having industries for the machine production of goods
bias
Thomas Jefferson
Industrialized
George Washington
9. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Straits of Hormuz
Cotton Gin
Bubonic Plague
Federalist Papers
10. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
George Washington
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Limited Government
14th Amendment
11. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
Hammurabi
Inalienable/Unalienable
Silk Road
12. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Cathedrals
Civil War 1861-1865
15th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
13. King of England during the American Revolution.
14th Amendment
Anti - Federalist
Subsistence agriculture
King George III
14. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Inalienable/Unalienable
Popular Sovereignty
Land Ordinance of 1785
Free - enterprise economic system
15. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
1215
Representative Democracy
federalism
Factory System
16. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
international
Monotheism
Republicanism
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
17. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
Schism
English Bill of Rights
urban
Straits
18. All things that surround us.
Articles of Confederation
environment
Magna Carta
Magna Carta
19. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Checks and Balances
urban
Age of Reason
Constitutional Monarchy
20. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Marbury v. Madison
Republicanism
era
suffrage
21. Involving other countries
international
Federalism
Polytheism
Federalism
22. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Monotheism
English Bill of Rights
Industrial Revolution
Taxation
23. Mass production of food
Famine
Commercial Agriculture
14th Amendment
Free - enterprise economic system
24. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Magnetic Compass
Capitalism/Market Economy
Checks and Balances
Communism/Command Economy
25. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Articles of Confederation
Middle Ages
Oligarchy
Mayflower Compact
26. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
unalienable
Natural Barriers
George Washington
English Bill of Rights
27. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Mesoamerica civilizations
Monroe doctrine
Capitalism/Market Economy
Federalist Papers
28. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
Unconstitutional
Bartering
Cotton Gin
29. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Printing Press
domestic
30. Average income per person
imports
tariff
Per Capita Income
Limited Government
31. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Henry Ford
Straits of Hormuz
Latitude
Labor force
32. To officially approve.
Capitalism/Market Economy
ratify
Parliament
Straits
33. Government where the religious leader run the government
Nationalism
Theocracy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Bill of Rights
34. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Barriers
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Civil War
Anti - Federalist
35. 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.
States Rights
Abe Lincoln
Force Bill
Subsistence agriculture
36. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
nullify
Andean civilization
U.S. Constitution
1791
37. These slow down movement/migration
Barriers
Secularism
Suez Canal
Industrial Revolution
38. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Bubonic Plague
market - oriented agriculture
Montesquieu
Thomas Jefferson
39. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
George Washington
George Washington
George Washington
Checks and Balances
40. Average number of years people live
Life Expectancy
Indulgences
Marbury v. Madison
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
41. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Theocracy
Absolute Monarchy
exports
Fertile Crescent
42. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Draco
Monotheism
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Atlantic Slave Trade
43. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Articles of Confederation
Self Determination
13th Amendment
Limited Government
44. Established Judicial Review.
federalism
Straits of Hormuz
Marbury v. Madison
Republic
45. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Montesquieu
Taxation
Urban
Republic
46. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
George Washington
Civil War 1861-1865
English Bill of Rights
Declaration of Indepen.
47. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers
veto
Natural Barriers
48. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Federalism
Taxation
Popular Sovereignty
English Bill of Rights
49. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Indulgences
Industrial Revolution
Articles of Confederation
Monotheism
50. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Separation of Powers .
subsistence agriculture
Cuneiform
Natural Rights / Individual Rights