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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. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Mayflower Compact
Per Capita Income
veto
bias
2. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
imports
George Washington
Land Ordinance of 1785
unalienable
3. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
The Senate
1776
Fertile Crescent
Unconstitutional
4. Belief in one god
Monotheism
Traditional economy
Marbury v. Madison
1066
5. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Immigration patterns
Enlightenment
tariff
Anti - Federalist
6. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Plessy v. Ferguson
Infant Mortality
Migration
Cathedrals
7. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Industrial Revolution
primary source
international
Brown v. Board of Edu.
8. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
cultural diffusion
1863 Emancipation Pro
Articles of Confederation
Individual Rights
9. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
Cathedrals
standard of living
Columbian Exchange
10. Officially ended the American Revolution
Self Determination
States Rights
Treaty of Paris 1783
Panama Canal
11. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Hammurabi
Secularism
John Locke
Representative Government
12. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Marbury v. Madison
Subsistence agriculture
13. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Marbury v. Madison
Communism/Command Economy
grievance
Plessy v. Ferguson
14. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Federalism
Straits of Hormuz
Unconstitutional
Civil War 1861-1865
15. President of the United States during the Civil War
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Monroe doctrine
secondary source
Abraham Lincoln
16. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
The Nullification Crisis
House of Burgesses
colonists
McCullough v. Maryland
17. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Monroe doctrine
Magna Carta
market - oriented agriculture
Age of Reason
18. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
U.S. Constitution
Abraham Lincoln
Enlightenment
amendment
19. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
John Locke
Republicanism
Montesquieu
ratify
20. Belief in many gods
Civil War 1861-1865
Polytheism
International Trade
Force Bill
21. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Canals
Longitude
Scientific Revolution
Civil War
22. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Migration
Thomas Jefferson
Basic Needs
1066
23. Member of a country.
citizen
international
English Bill of Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785
24. Established Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
ratify
1066
Checks and Balances
25. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Articles of Confederation
Protestant Reformation
exports
Representative democracy
26. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Force Bill
Standard of living
Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
27. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
House of Burgesses
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War
Henry Ford
28. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Famine
1066
15th Amendment
limited government
29. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Indulgences
Constitutional Conv.
Suez Canal
The Nullification Crisis
30. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Constitutional Conv.
Republic
Mayflower Compact
31. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
14th Amendment
Checks and Balances
States Rights
Parliament
32. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Free - enterprise economic system
Constitutional Conv.
subsistence agriculture
33. Modern Constitution
U.S. Constitution
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Enlightenment
Bubonic Plague
34. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
English Bill of Rights
Taxation
Andean civilization
Nullification Crisis
35. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Age of Reason
Articles of Confederation
States Rights
rural
36. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Republic
Enlightenment
Immigration patterns
37. Developed complex societies such as Maya and Aztec
Printing Press
Andean civilization
Magna Carta
Mesoamerica civilizations
38. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Mayflower Compact
English Bill of Rights
Age of Exploration & Colonization
15th Amendment
39. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Fertile Crescent
Columbian Exchange
Andean civilization
Protestant Reformation
40. 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.
Free - enterprise economic system
Atlantic Slave Trade
Representative Government
exports
41. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
rural
Factory System
subsistence agriculture
Suez Canal
42. 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.
Articles of Confederation
Marbury v. Madison
Montesquieu
Marbury v. Madison
43. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Thomas Jefferson
ratify
14th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
44. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Nationalism
Marbury v. Madison
grievance
Brown v. Board of Edu.
45. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Constitutional Monarchy
domestic
Declaration of Indepen.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
46. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
primary source
End of Reconstruction
Taxation
Iron Curtain
47. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
Individual Rights
Declaration of Independence
English Bill of Rights
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
48. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
15th Amendment
Bartering
exports
1776
49. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
George Washington
Andean civilization
Columbian Exchange
market - oriented agriculture
50. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Straits of Hormuz
Consent of the Governed
Per Capita Income
The Nullification Crisis