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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. Spread of ideas - technology - religion - language and other cultural practices over time and space.
cultural diffusion
Bill of Rights
Civil War 1861-1865
environment
2. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
Land Ordinance of 1785
Natural Barriers
Monotheism
3. Member of a country.
Justinian
citizen
13th Amendment
End of Reconstruction
4. Power is divided between the state government and the federal government with some powers shared.
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Federalism
Anti - Federalist
Subsistence economy
5. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Mayflower Compact
States Rights
Industrial Revolution
Articles of Confederation
6. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
Columbian Exchange
The Senate
Articles of Confederation
Federalist
7. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Popular Sovereignty
Mesoamerica civilizations
Demographics
1791
8. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Winston Churchill
Founding of Jamestown
Urban
Constitutional Conv.
9. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Representative democracy
Scientific Revolution
trade
Demographics
10. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
Limited Government
(naval) blockade
Subsistence economy
11. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Checks and Balances
Bartering
George Washington
Ben Franklin
12. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Limited Government
Bill of Rights
Federalist
Canals
13. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Industrial Revolution
Bill of Rights
Founding of Jamestown
Representative democracy
14. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Secularism
federalism
Direct Democracy
Nullification Crisis
15. Percent of people in a country that can read and write
13th Amendment
Constitutional Conv.
Literacy Rate
Columbian Exchange
16. King/queen who has unlimited power
Absolute Monarchy
Justinian
Nullification Crisis
Suez Canal
17. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Communism/Command Economy
Civil War
Taxation
18. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
1787
Individual Rights
Totalitarianism
Free - enterprise economic system
19. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Andean civilization
George Washington
ratify
Mayflower Compact
20. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Absolute Monarchy
States Rights
Thomas Jefferson
House of Burgesses
21. Mass production of food
Straits
unalienable
Commercial Agriculture
Draco
22. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Mayflower Compact (1620)
14th Amendment
Suez Canal
Immigration patterns
23. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Subsistence agriculture
Bartering
15th Amendment
Irrigation Canals
24. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Nationalism
Standard of living
End of Reconstruction
Nullification Crisis
25. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Cotton Gin
Schism
Federalist
Natural Barriers
26. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Urban
Separation of Powers
Articles of Confederation
bias
27. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
amendment
Force Bill
Unconstitutional
Industrialization
28. 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.
Force Bill
Straits of Hormuz
Karl Marx
Andean civilization
29. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
15th Amendment
George Washington
Bill of Rights
Taxation
30. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
English Bill of Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
Federalism
Enlightenment
31. Mesopotamian king who created the first written law code
U.S. Constitution
Hammurabi
suffrage
Treaty of Paris 1783
32. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
Separation of Powers .
Theocracy
Cotton Gin
Immigration patterns
33. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
1787
(naval) blockade
Checks and Balances
Draco
34. Use indicators such as income - education - birth rate/death rate - $ spent on food - population density - and so on to determine quality of life.
Self Determination
standard of living
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
13th Amendment
35. Average number of years people live
Atlantic Slave Trade
environment
Life Expectancy
amendment
36. A government that elects its leaders
international
Articles of Confederation
era
Republic
37. Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
Age of Reason
imports
Plessy v. Ferguson
Consent of the Governed
38. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Natural Barriers
Popular Sovereignty
Theocracy
Sub - Saharan Africa .
39. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Panama Canal
Marbury v. Madison
Representative democracy
Longitude
40. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Popular Sovereignty
Cuneiform
Protestant Reformation
15th Amendment
41. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Thomas Jefferson
Plessy v. Ferguson
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
suffrage
42. Economic thinker that supported capitalism
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Commercial Agriculture
Adam Smith
1776
43. Pardon for sin. Martin Luther questioned the churches authority to pardon sin and especially the idea that you could buy the pardon
Indulgences
ratify
Labor force
Treaty of Paris 1783
44. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Silk Road
Urban
exports
Migration
45. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Per Capita Income
veto
Straits of Hormuz
Cotton Gin
46. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
International Trade
Canals
domestic
Magnetic Compass
47. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Schism
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Age of Reason
Brown v. Board of Edu.
48. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Standard of living
Nullification Crisis
environment
nullify
49. Restrictions on the powers the government has like states cannot create money
Karl Marx
Montesquieu
Commercial Agriculture
Limited Government
50. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
14th Amendment
suburban
Checks and Balances
Irrigation Canals