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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. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
Republic
trade
Federalism
Inalienable/Unalienable
2. Mass production of food
ziggurats
Commercial Agriculture
1787
citizen
3. Belief in many gods
ratify
Natural Barriers
Polytheism
Constitutional Monarchy
4. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Protestant Reformation
Individual Rights
ziggurats
Representative Democracy
5. 1st written constitution
Declaration of Indepen.
Fund. Order of Conn.
King George III
Separation of Powers .
6. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Indulgences
Cottage industry
Constitutional Monarchy
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
7. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Declaration of Indepen.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Fertile Crescent
McCullough v. Maryland
8. The System in the U.S. and other free market economies. It includes economic choice - competition - profit motive - and limited government regulation of the economy.
Age of Reason
Free - enterprise economic system
Constitutional Conv.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
9. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Sub - Saharan Africa .
exports
Renaissance
Famine
10. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
colonists
English Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Age of Exploration & Colonization
11. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Enlightenment
Basic Needs
Barriers
Justinian
12. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
1215
End of Reconstruction
15th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
13. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
citizen
Mesoamerica civilizations
market - oriented agriculture
Winston Churchill
14. Having to do with one's own homeland
Traditional economy
domestic
Inalienable/Unalienable
cottage industry
15. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Montesquieu
Anti - Federalists
Henry Ford
suburban
16. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
international
Infant Mortality
Separation of Powers .
Unconstitutional
17. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
international
Canals
Articles of Confederation
Sub - Saharan Africa .
18. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Commercial Agriculture
Separation of Powers
Cathedrals
Latitude
19. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
The Senate
Canals
ziggurats
Civil War 1861-1865
20. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
Checks and Balances
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Magna Carta
Self Determination
21. Established Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
Life Expectancy
Bill of Rights
Commercial Agriculture
22. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Imperialism
Inalienable/Unalienable
Federalism
Ben Franklin
23. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Republic
States Rights
International Trade
veto
24. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Direct Democracy
imports
Humanism
Bill of Rights
25. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Industrialization
Middle Ages
Panama Canal
suffrage
26. 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
Silk Road
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
End of Reconstruction
Subsistence agriculture
27. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
veto
1066
Free - enterprise economic system
15th Amendment
28. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
The Senate
Representative Government
Magna Carta
29. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalism
Republic
Inalienable/Unalienable
30. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
1791
Mayflower Compact (1620)
The Nullification Crisis
95 Theses
31. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Factory System
Abe Lincoln
Renaissance
Federalist
32. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Consent of the Governed
Humanism
imports
Subsistence economy
33. Member of a country.
Emancipation Proclamation
States Rights
Commercial Agriculture
citizen
34. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Bill of Rights
Famine
13th Amendment
Iron Curtain
35. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
Thomas Jefferson
Adam Smith
limited government
36. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
The Nullification Crisis
Magnetic Compass
Land Ordinance of 1785
Commercial Agriculture
37. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe doctrine
Republicanism
Atlantic Slave Trade
Force Bill
38. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Demographics
Federalism
rural
Checks and Balances
39. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Infant Mortality
grievance
ziggurats
Federalist Papers
40. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Civil War
Winston Churchill
Founding of Jamestown
Anti - Federalist
41. To officially approve.
Magnetic Compass
ratify
Atlantic Slave Trade
Federalism
42. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Republicanism
Henry Ford
Plessy v. Ferguson
suburban
43. Split in the church
Schism
George Washington
English Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
44. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Printing Press
Fund. Order of Conn.
Scientific Revolution
Bill of Rights
45. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Representative Democracy
1791
Individual Rights
Anti - Federalists
46. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Adam Smith
secondary source
Magna Carta
Longitude
47. Belief in one god
Scientific Revolution
Monotheism
Founding of Jamestown
grievance
48. A written plan of government for the colonies created a weak league of 13 nearly independent states in 1777. The 1st Constitution of the U.S.
The Senate
Straits
Civil War
Articles of Confederation
49. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Justinian
Life Expectancy
Mayflower Compact
Thomas Jefferson
50. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Limited Government
Infant Mortality
Abraham Lincoln
Indulgences