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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. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
Federalist
Humanism
Suez Canal
Thomas Jefferson
2. Average income per person
Per Capita Income
Fund. Order of Conn.
End of Reconstruction
amendment
3. King/queen who has unlimited power
Thomas Jefferson
Checks and Balances
era
Absolute Monarchy
4. Tax on imports and exports.
tariff
Bubonic Plague
Self Determination
Marbury v. Madison
5. Period in Europe that began after the fall of the Roman Empire Characterized by feudalism - Roman Catholic Church was the unifier of the age with more power than Kings/Lords
Capitalism/Market Economy
Enlightenment
English Bill of Rights
Middle Ages
6. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Imperialism
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
Mesoamerica civilizations
7. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe doctrine
15th Amendment
Industrialized
Abraham Lincoln
8. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Iron Curtain
Cuneiform
Articles of Confederation
Immigration patterns
9. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
Civil War 1861-1865
Crusaders
Schism
10. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Limited Government
Straits of Hormuz
Civil War
English Bill of Rights
11. Power of the government rests with the people who express their ideas through voting.
Basic Needs
Absolute Monarchy
John Locke
Popular Sovereignty
12. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Cuneiform
13th Amendment
Republicanism
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
13. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Iron Curtain
Suez Canal
Life Expectancy
subsistence agriculture
14. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Fertile Crescent
Immigration patterns
Separation of Powers .
1215
15. Pride in ones country
Nationalism
Abraham Lincoln
Popular Sovereignty
Theocracy
16. Member of a country.
Thomas Jefferson
citizen
bias
tariff
17. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Traditional economy
ziggurats
Republic
Magnetic Compass
18. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
1215
The Senate
15th Amendment
Founding of Jamestown
19. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Montesquieu
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Monarchy
20. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
1215
imports
Latitude
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
21. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Unconstitutional
Justinian
Barriers
suburban
22. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Barriers
Scientific Revolution
Adam Smith
Draco
23. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Famine
federalism
Standard of living
Articles of Confederation
24. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Bartering
Individual Rights
14th Amendment
imports
25. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Winston Churchill
international
Subsistence economy
End of Reconstruction
26. Government ruled by a few powerful people
1791
Oligarchy
amendment
Enlightenment
27. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Monotheism
Subsistence agriculture
House of Burgesses
Immigration patterns
28. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
Migration
Subsistence economy
McCullough v. Maryland
29. Established Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
Urban
Life Expectancy
Emancipation Proclamation
30. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Checks and Balances
Montesquieu
Columbian Exchange
Industrial Revolution
31. All things that surround us.
1215
Infant Mortality
Declaration of Indepen.
environment
32. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
1066
Commercial Agriculture
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Standard of living
33. 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
Republic
Age of Reason
Capitalism/Market Economy
34. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Per Capita Income
Age of Exploration & Colonization
The Nullification Crisis
veto
35. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
cottage industry
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ben Franklin
Anti - Federalist
36. Having industries for the machine production of goods
International Trade
limited government
Industrialized
Mayflower Compact
37. Set up system for settling Northwest Territory
Bill of Rights
Sub - Saharan Africa .
George Washington
Land Ordinance of 1785
38. These slow down movement/migration
Bill of Rights
Abraham Lincoln
Crusaders
Barriers
39. Average number of years people live
Life Expectancy
Popular Sovereignty
95 Theses
Monroe doctrine
40. Making goods out of the home
Cathedrals
Thomas Jefferson
Cottage industry
Silk Road
41. An official change to a law or document of government.
Indulgences
Plessy v. Ferguson
amendment
Henry Ford
42. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
The Senate
Anti - Federalist
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Industrial Revolution
43. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Traditional economy
1776
Humanism
44. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Civil War 1861-1865
Industrial Revolution
Representative Government
Labor force
45. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
Federalist Papers
14th Amendment
Checks and Balances
1787-1789
46. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Monotheism
Absolute Monarchy
Standard of living
Individual Rights
47. Life - Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness same as natural or individual rights
Industrial Revolution
amendment
Inalienable/Unalienable
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
48. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
standard of living
Magnetic Compass
Labor force
Communism/Command Economy
49. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Republicanism
limited government
Urban
Middle Ages
50. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Magna Carta
Abe Lincoln
Popular Sovereignty
Crusaders