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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. Mass production of food
Andean civilization
Commercial Agriculture
Industrialization
Thomas Jefferson
2. 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.
Oligarchy
Iron Curtain
Force Bill
Standard of living
3. The idea that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that the power of government is limited by rule of law.
Limited Government
Justinian
Imperialism
amendment
4. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Founding of Jamestown
veto
Magna Carta
Parliament
5. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Enlightenment
Federalism
suffrage
English Bill of Rights
6. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Federalism
Bill of Rights
market - oriented agriculture
Longitude
7. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
era
Force Bill
House of Burgesses
Popular Sovereignty
8. Complaints
Anti - Federalist
grievance
Anti - Federalists
Bartering
9. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Nullification Crisis
Treaty of Paris 1783
House of Burgesses
Marbury v. Madison
10. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
Factory System
Fertile Crescent
rural
Literacy Rate
11. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
ziggurats
15th Amendment
nullify
Commercial Agriculture
12. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Free - enterprise economic system
1066
Magnetic Compass
Renaissance
13. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Anti - Federalist
Constitutional Monarchy
U.S. Constitution
13th Amendment
14. All things that surround us.
environment
1215
Industrial Revolution
Latitude
15. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
colonists
Fertile Crescent
Emancipation Proclamation
Longitude
16. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
international
1776
Immigration patterns
Enlightenment
17. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
House of Burgesses
Bubonic Plague
Limited Government
King George III
18. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
(naval) blockade
cottage industry
Bubonic Plague
Age of Reason
19. Transfer of plants - animals - disease - and cultures between Europe - Asia and Africa (Old World) and North and South America (New World). It started with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492
Magnetic Compass
1787
Columbian Exchange
Iron Curtain
20. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
14th Amendment
1863 Emancipation Pro
suburban
McCullough v. Maryland
21. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Mayflower Compact
bias
Demographics
22. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Schism
Monroe doctrine
Scientific Revolution
George Washington
23. Belief in one god
Nullification Crisis
Representative democracy
Monotheism
Enlightenment
24. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
Irrigation Canals
Labor force
Mesoamerica civilizations
urban
25. He wrote the Declaration of Independence - was the 3rd president of the U.S.A. and made the Louisiana purchase
ratify
Thomas Jefferson
bias
Cottage industry
26. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
McCullough v. Maryland
Infant Mortality
Standard of living
Magnetic Compass
27. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Factory System
Panama Canal
(naval) blockade
Representative Government
28. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
Declaration of Indepen.
Industrialization
veto
15th Amendment
29. Supreme Court upheld segregation - 'Separate but equal.'
Plessy v. Ferguson
Middle Ages
limited government
Bill of Rights
30. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Bill of Rights
amendment
Demographics
ziggurats
31. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Cottage industry
Representative democracy
veto
market - oriented agriculture
32. A government that elects its leaders
Republic
Cotton Gin
Straits of Hormuz
Popular Sovereignty
33. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Communism/Command Economy
Magnetic Compass
Magna Carta
Atlantic Slave Trade
34. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
tariff
Hammurabi
Civil War
Polytheism
35. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
Thomas Jefferson
Printing Press
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
rural
36. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
1215
Plessy v. Ferguson
suffrage
Canals
37. Gothic Architecture used to show religious spirit during the Middle Ages
Representative Democracy
amendment
Cathedrals
Constitutional Monarchy
38. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Industrialization
Migration
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Urban
39. Who opposed the Constitution?
Anti - Federalists
Republic
cultural diffusion
Industrial Revolution
40. The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
End of Reconstruction
1787
Industrialization
Factory System
41. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Traditional economy
Mayflower Compact
Atlantic Slave Trade
Nullification Crisis
42. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Cottage industry
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Magna Carta
Federalist
43. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
Land Ordinance of 1785
Representative Government
Checks and Balances
Consent of the Governed
44. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
level of development
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Urban
Republicanism
45. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Ben Franklin
Self Determination
Natural Barriers
15th Amendment
46. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
English Bill of Rights
Totalitarianism
Republic
George Washington
47. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Industrial Revolution
Basic Needs
Taxation
suburban
48. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
States Rights
Scientific Revolution
1787-1789
John Locke
49. Belief in many gods
primary source
Latitude
King George III
Polytheism
50. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
Checks and Balances
level of development
federalism
Republicanism