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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. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Suez Canal
Latitude
nullify
Justinian
2. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Communism/Command Economy
George Washington
Karl Marx
Famine
3. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Taxation
era
The Nullification Crisis
Renaissance
4. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Andean civilization
Representative Government
grievance
Federalist
5. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Canals
Secularism
Renaissance
Bill of Rights
6. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
Factory System
Cuneiform
Atlantic Slave Trade
English Bill of Rights
7. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
bias
English Bill of Rights
Urban
1776
8. Artificial waterway for navigation - irrigation
Canals
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Subsistence agriculture
Silk Road
9. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
1791
Magna Carta
Articles of Confederation
Printing Press
10. Rules established by Pilgrims for how to organize self - government at Plymouth
Montesquieu
urban
95 Theses
Mayflower Compact
11. This is also referred to as a city
Standard of living
John Locke
Urban
Winston Churchill
12. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
amendment
Checks and Balances
Fund. Order of Conn.
Bartering
13. Government that votes for representatives who serve in the government to make and enforce law and in the best interest of the people
Panama Canal
Per Capita Income
Emancipation Proclamation
Representative Democracy
14. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
suffrage
Thomas Jefferson
Famine
Industrialized
15. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
unalienable
Constitutional Monarchy
Mayflower Compact
Abe Lincoln
16. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Federalist Papers
English Bill of Rights
Industrial Revolution
17. Having to do with one's own homeland
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Capitalism/Market Economy
Anti - Federalists
domestic
18. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
standard of living
Indulgences
nullify
Anti - Federalist
19. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
1215
Self Determination
15th Amendment
Founding of Jamestown
20. 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.
1066
Nullification Crisis
Founding of Jamestown
Articles of Confederation
21. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
14th Amendment
limited government
Middle Ages
Mayflower Compact
22. Beginning of mass production - interchangeable parts.
Industrial Revolution
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Magna Carta
Infant Mortality
23. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Thomas Jefferson
Suez Canal
End of Reconstruction
House of Burgesses
24. The Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution to protect what?
Traditional economy
Emancipation Proclamation
The Nullification Crisis
Individual Rights
25. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
Hammurabi
Nullification Crisis
suburban
26. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Declaration of Indepen.
Capitalism/Market Economy
Standard of living
bias
27. Who opposed the Constitution?
Famine
Taxation
Anti - Federalists
nullify
28. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Renaissance
standard of living
Consent of the Governed
Separation of Powers .
29. Complaints
market - oriented agriculture
grievance
Marbury v. Madison
Atlantic Slave Trade
30. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Thomas Jefferson
Urban
Unconstitutional
Thomas Jefferson
31. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Silk Road
Magna Carta
Irrigation Canals
Republic
32. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
Constitutional Conv.
Oligarchy
trade
Polytheism
33. Congress enacted this law to give President Jackson the authority to use the army and navy if necessary to enforce the tariff law of 1828.
Limited Government
Force Bill
Marbury v. Madison
George Washington
34. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
international
Demographics
Winston Churchill
Federalist
35. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
imports
subsistence agriculture
Imperialism
Emancipation Proclamation
36. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Canals
Subsistence agriculture
Checks and Balances
Magna Carta
37. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
Latitude
Imperialism
suburban
Printing Press
38. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Ben Franklin
Factory System
Crusaders
Immigration patterns
39. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
rural
Columbian Exchange
George Washington
Nullification Crisis
40. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Columbian Exchange
rural
environment
House of Burgesses
41. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
George Washington
cottage industry
Republic
George Washington
42. Belief in one god
Mayflower Compact
Articles of Confederation
Monotheism
Republicanism
43. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Thomas Jefferson
secondary source
Industrial Revolution
Emancipation Proclamation
44. 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
grievance
exports
Subsistence agriculture
45. 1st written constitution
tariff
Limited Government
primary source
Fund. Order of Conn.
46. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
suburban
Federalist Papers
Magna Carta
Immigration patterns
47. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Unconstitutional
Imperialism
Subsistence economy
Abe Lincoln
48. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Free - enterprise economic system
Unconstitutional
market - oriented agriculture
George Washington
49. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Barriers
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
George Washington
50. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
cottage industry
primary source
ziggurats
Articles of Confederation