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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. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
Secularism
15th Amendment
Iron Curtain
subsistence agriculture
2. England's overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a constitutional monarchy (representative government)
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Draco
1215
exports
3. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
States Rights
domestic
Federalism
Plessy v. Ferguson
4. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
environment
grievance
(naval) blockade
Emancipation Proclamation
5. Year that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were made which protected the rights of individuals from abuses of the national government
Longitude
1791
U.S. Constitution
rural
6. Modern Constitution
Hammurabi
amendment
Taxation
U.S. Constitution
7. Machine that allowed text to be mass produced which allowed the spreading of ideas
Limited Government
(naval) blockade
Emancipation Proclamation
Printing Press
8. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
federalism
1863 Emancipation Pro
Protestant Reformation
Basic Needs
9. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
secondary source
citizen
Commercial Agriculture
Panama Canal
10. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Commercial Agriculture
Industrial Revolution
rural
Totalitarianism
11. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Civil War
Bartering
Magna Carta
Representative Democracy
12. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
The Nullification Crisis
Bubonic Plague
Republic
Literacy Rate
13. Opposed to the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government and not enough to the states. They also wanted individual rights protected
1863 Emancipation Pro
Self Determination
(naval) blockade
Anti - Federalist
14. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
14th Amendment
Bubonic Plague
Enlightenment
Life Expectancy
15. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Cuneiform
Ben Franklin
domestic
Cottage industry
16. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Limited Government
Bartering
Bill of Rights
market - oriented agriculture
17. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Unconstitutional
Popular Sovereignty
Sub - Saharan Africa .
level of development
18. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Polytheism
Industrialized
limited government
Panama Canal
19. Member of a country.
Bill of Rights
citizen
15th Amendment
market - oriented agriculture
20. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Thomas Jefferson
Cuneiform
Nullification Crisis
Cathedrals
21. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
amendment
Irrigation Canals
ziggurats
Anti - Federalist
22. Complaints
Mayflower Compact
grievance
Absolute Monarchy
Magna Carta
23. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Federalist Papers
Indulgences
Republic
Suez Canal
24. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
English Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Crusaders
Migration
25. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
Hammurabi
Protestant Reformation
urban
Suez Canal
26. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
ziggurats
Emancipation Proclamation
Printing Press
Industrial Revolution
27. 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
Self Determination
1863 Emancipation Pro
Individual Rights
28. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
Thomas Jefferson
The Nullification Crisis
English Bill of Rights
13th Amendment
29. Belief in one god
veto
Monotheism
standard of living
Monroe doctrine
30. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Middle Ages
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Absolute Monarchy
31. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Abe Lincoln
Cotton Gin
Literacy Rate
Famine
32. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Cuneiform
federalism
Articles of Confederation
Sub - Saharan Africa .
33. An official change to a law or document of government.
Per Capita Income
amendment
Factory System
International Trade
34. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Representative Government
Straits
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
The Senate
35. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
Columbian Exchange
Hammurabi
Declaration of Indepen.
Treaty of Paris 1783
36. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
citizen
Checks and Balances
Thomas Jefferson
37. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Andean civilization
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
bias
domestic
38. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
Anti - Federalist
colonists
Labor force
39. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Infant Mortality
Age of Exploration & Colonization
John Locke
era
40. Government ruled by a few powerful people
Life Expectancy
Popular Sovereignty
Oligarchy
tariff
41. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Totalitarianism
Unconstitutional
subsistence agriculture
Emancipation Proclamation
42. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Secularism
cultural diffusion
Limited Government
McCullough v. Maryland
43. 18th century European movement that applied reason to all aspects of society and help changed government
Life Expectancy
Federalism
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Enlightenment
44. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
George Washington
Constitutional Monarchy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Hammurabi
45. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Suez Canal
Imperialism
Emancipation Proclamation
Winston Churchill
46. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
cottage industry
Republicanism
Straits of Hormuz
Civil War 1861-1865
47. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Draco
Bill of Rights
Monroe doctrine
market - oriented agriculture
48. People who settle and live in a colony
Mayflower Compact
grievance
colonists
Karl Marx
49. 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
unalienable
Industrialization
ratify
50. First organizing of 13 colonies.
Articles of Conf.
Popular Sovereignty
14th Amendment
Republic