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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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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. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Monotheism
Traditional economy
Demographics
Industrialized
2. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy
Nullification Crisis
Labor force
3. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Commercial Agriculture
Totalitarianism
Individual Rights
14th Amendment
4. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
trade
citizen
Columbian Exchange
Mayflower Compact
5. King/queen who has unlimited power
Absolute Monarchy
Monotheism
Secularism
Panama Canal
6. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Panama Canal
Marbury v. Madison
Unconstitutional
Winston Churchill
7. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Separation of Powers .
Scientific Revolution
14th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
8. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
primary source
Bill of Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
Justinian
9. Pride in ones country
Articles of Confederation
Scientific Revolution
Nationalism
Oligarchy
10. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Monotheism
suffrage
1066
1863 Emancipation Pro
11. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Articles of Confederation
Straits
limited government
Anti - Federalist
12. Government ruled by a few powerful people
House of Burgesses
13th Amendment
Oligarchy
Bill of Rights
13. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Republic
George Washington
Mesoamerica civilizations
Standard of living
14. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Bill of Rights
Immigration patterns
Henry Ford
Monotheism
15. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Self Determination
Latitude
Longitude
U.S. Constitution
16. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Longitude
Bill of Rights
Theocracy
Canals
17. To officially approve.
George Washington
Canals
ratify
Limited Government
18. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
George Washington
Abe Lincoln
Communism/Command Economy
Migration
19. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
amendment
States Rights
market - oriented agriculture
Longitude
20. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Bartering
Limited Government
Magna Carta
Canals
21. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
15th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
George Washington
Hammurabi
22. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Magna Carta
Iron Curtain
Representative democracy
level of development
23. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
King George III
Winston Churchill
13th Amendment
Limited Government
24. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Humanism
The Senate
Labor force
Limited Government
25. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
English Bill of Rights
colonists
Federalist Papers
Articles of Confederation
26. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Representative Government
Migration
cultural diffusion
15th Amendment
27. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
95 Theses
Mayflower Compact (1620)
ratify
International Trade
28. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
14th Amendment
Enlightenment
Irrigation Canals
colonists
29. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
Self Determination
Bill of Rights
Protestant Reformation
30. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Communism/Command Economy
Enlightenment
Representative Democracy
Cottage industry
31. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
rural
Representative Democracy
nullify
32. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Famine
Checks and Balances
Articles of Confederation
33. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
cottage industry
Draco
tariff
suffrage
34. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
George Washington
Commercial Agriculture
environment
Republicanism
35. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Famine
grievance
Labor force
Thomas Jefferson
36. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Printing Press
Federalism
Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
37. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
Bill of Rights
Direct Democracy
Inalienable/Unalienable
38. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Barriers
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
Imperialism
39. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Treaty of Paris 1783
Age of Reason
Mayflower Compact (1620)
level of development
40. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
1066
Mayflower Compact
Age of Reason
1787-1789
41. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Commercial Agriculture
Republicanism
colonists
Age of Reason
42. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
14th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
limited government
Articles of Confederation
43. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
John Locke
Unconstitutional
level of development
Mesoamerica civilizations
44. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Commercial Agriculture
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Separation of Powers
House of Burgesses
45. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Free - enterprise economic system
Enlightenment
14th Amendment
ratify
46. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Nationalism
Emancipation Proclamation
47. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
standard of living
Emancipation Proclamation
citizen
48. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
unalienable
imports
The Senate
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
49. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Protestant Reformation
Adam Smith
Individual Rights
Middle Ages
50. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Schism
Panama Canal
Crusaders
Marbury v. Madison