SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
TAKS 10th Grade World History
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
taks
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
era
Per Capita Income
Latitude
1863 Emancipation Pro
2. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Justinian
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Articles of Confederation
Anti - Federalists
3. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Famine
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Land Ordinance of 1785
4. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Federalism
McCullough v. Maryland
Republicanism
Mayflower Compact
5. Curbed States' Rights
Abe Lincoln
George Washington
Emancipation Proclamation
McCullough v. Maryland
6. 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.
1787
Montesquieu
Limited Government
Federalist
7. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
95 Theses
limited government
Renaissance
The Nullification Crisis
8. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
International Trade
14th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
trade
9. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Federalism
Commercial Agriculture
Communism/Command Economy
suburban
10. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Articles of Confederation
Renaissance
Separation of Powers .
Mayflower Compact
11. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Infant Mortality
Thomas Jefferson
bias
Scientific Revolution
12. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Treaty of Paris 1783
Middle Ages
veto
Mayflower Compact (1620)
13. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Republic
Federalist Papers
Unconstitutional
Per Capita Income
14. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Barriers
George Washington
Latitude
Traditional economy
15. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Representative Democracy
federalism
15th Amendment
Popular Sovereignty
16. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
Individual Rights
level of development
Immigration patterns
17. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Urban
Federalism
Adam Smith
Constitutional Conv.
18. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Indulgences
Silk Road
Cuneiform
Mayflower Compact (1620)
19. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Constitutional Monarchy
Republicanism
Hammurabi
Treaty of Paris 1783
20. Modern Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
unalienable
U.S. Constitution
George Washington
21. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
grievance
suburban
market - oriented agriculture
22. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Cotton Gin
Popular Sovereignty
international
23. Mass production of food
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Commercial Agriculture
Federalism
market - oriented agriculture
24. 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
Immigration patterns
McCullough v. Maryland
Capitalism/Market Economy
25. 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
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Bill of Rights
Communism/Command Economy
26. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
Middle Ages
citizen
Age of Reason
27. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Constitutional Conv.
Enlightenment
Bill of Rights
Federalism
28. People in a society that are willing and able to work
Labor force
Famine
Articles of Confederation
Capitalism/Market Economy
29. Officially ended the American Revolution
veto
Crusaders
Suez Canal
Treaty of Paris 1783
30. Split in the church
Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
tariff
Schism
31. People who settle and live in a colony
George Washington
Absolute Monarchy
colonists
nullify
32. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
14th Amendment
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Urban
33. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Canals
Nationalism
Commercial Agriculture
15th Amendment
34. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Declaration of Independence
Taxation
Traditional economy
suffrage
35. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
(naval) blockade
Age of Exploration & Colonization
95 Theses
Industrial Revolution
36. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Migration
Justinian
standard of living
Thomas Jefferson
37. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Thomas Jefferson
14th Amendment
Checks and Balances
Immigration patterns
38. Surge in scientific discovery in Europe
Literacy Rate
End of Reconstruction
Scientific Revolution
Printing Press
39. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
13th Amendment
Panama Canal
Demographics
Civil War
40. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Thomas Jefferson
Fund. Order of Conn.
Panama Canal
U.S. Constitution
41. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Checks and Balances
Justinian
Articles of Conf.
Age of Reason
42. Belief in one god
Federalism
Abe Lincoln
Monotheism
unalienable
43. Sent to Britain (George III) with the grievances the Colonist had with England and why they were going to become their own Nation
bias
Emancipation Proclamation
Declaration of Independence
environment
44. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
bias
Factory System
Civil War 1861-1865
Natural Barriers
45. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Declaration of Independence
Capitalism/Market Economy
Civil War
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
46. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
primary source
Communism/Command Economy
1066
Republic
47. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
Direct Democracy
Basic Needs
Iron Curtain
citizen
48. Established Judicial Review.
Limited Government
Marbury v. Madison
Federalist
Factory System
49. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Irrigation Canals
Atlantic Slave Trade
Demographics
veto
50. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
House of Burgesses
Representative Government
Plessy v. Ferguson
Anti - Federalists