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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. President of the United States during the Civil War
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Life Expectancy
Abraham Lincoln
Treaty of Paris 1783
2. An official change to a law or document of government.
Republicanism
Constitutional Monarchy
Industrial Revolution
amendment
3. Making goods out of the home
Labor force
Cottage industry
Unconstitutional
Absolute Monarchy
4. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Per Capita Income
Plessy v. Ferguson
McCullough v. Maryland
Unconstitutional
5. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Straits of Hormuz
Cotton Gin
1066
Representative democracy
6. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Latitude
George Washington
Constitutional Conv.
Founding of Jamestown
7. A document outlining principles of self - government for colonists. (1620)
Mayflower Compact
Columbian Exchange
Immigration patterns
Commercial Agriculture
8. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
Constitutional Conv.
suffrage
Age of Reason
9. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Federalism
Force Bill
Magna Carta
tariff
10. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
The Nullification Crisis
Bill of Rights
Hammurabi
Demographics
11. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Panama Canal
Federalist Papers
George Washington
12. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
cultural diffusion
Federalist Papers
Enlightenment
Checks and Balances
13. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
tariff
Adam Smith
Famine
Articles of Confederation
14. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
Communism/Command Economy
Parliament
Enlightenment
Cuneiform
15. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
Infant Mortality
domestic
suburban
amendment
16. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Nullification Crisis
Taxation
Abe Lincoln
George Washington
17. Average number of years people live
Magnetic Compass
subsistence agriculture
veto
Life Expectancy
18. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Abraham Lincoln
Articles of Conf.
Magnetic Compass
George Washington
19. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Atlantic Slave Trade
suburban
14th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
20. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
bias
Karl Marx
Emancipation Proclamation
International Trade
21. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
George Washington
Checks and Balances
Articles of Confederation
Nullification Crisis
22. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
rural
Monotheism
standard of living
Fertile Crescent
23. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Magnetic Compass
Land Ordinance of 1785
Abraham Lincoln
U.S. Constitution
24. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Self Determination
George Washington
Nationalism
cottage industry
25. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Henry Ford
George Washington
Literacy Rate
(naval) blockade
26. The form of government where people elect representatives the create and enforce laws
Capitalism/Market Economy
Republicanism
Civil War
veto
27. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Representative Government
14th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
13th Amendment
28. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Federalist Papers
Plessy v. Ferguson
Irrigation Canals
Demographics
29. A government that elects its leaders
Mayflower Compact
Traditional economy
Declaration of Indepen.
Republic
30. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Monroe doctrine
Founding of Jamestown
Articles of Confederation
English Bill of Rights
31. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Individual Rights
Federalist Papers
Articles of Conf.
Traditional economy
32. 1st written constitution
Andean civilization
veto
Iron Curtain
Fund. Order of Conn.
33. Average income per person
market - oriented agriculture
Demographics
Per Capita Income
Indulgences
34. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Industrialization
Bubonic Plague
Monotheism
Bill of Rights
35. King/queen who has unlimited power
Absolute Monarchy
Urban
1215
The Nullification Crisis
36. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Oligarchy
States Rights
grievance
Atlantic Slave Trade
37. People who settle and live in a colony
Articles of Confederation
Land Ordinance of 1785
Andean civilization
colonists
38. Organization of government whichinto three branches - legislative - executive and judicial; proposed by Montesquieu
Theocracy
Separation of Powers .
Urban
Karl Marx
39. 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
Federalist Papers
Civil War 1861-1865
Middle Ages
Silk Road
40. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Founding of Jamestown
Treaty of Paris 1783
Federalism
George Washington
41. Mass production of food
Founding of Jamestown
Commercial Agriculture
Constitutional Conv.
14th Amendment
42. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Life Expectancy
Subsistence agriculture
rural
Industrialized
43. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
imports
Abe Lincoln
Per Capita Income
secondary source
44. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Natural Barriers
Emancipation Proclamation
Sub - Saharan Africa .
45. This is also referred to as a city
House of Burgesses
Totalitarianism
Articles of Confederation
Urban
46. Belief in one god
Bill of Rights
14th Amendment
1787-1789
Monotheism
47. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Indulgences
Thomas Jefferson
Absolute Monarchy
Traditional economy
48. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
federalism
Cotton Gin
Suez Canal
Founding of Jamestown
49. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
Communism/Command Economy
1787-1789
Atlantic Slave Trade
Magnetic Compass
50. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
international
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
urban