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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. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Labor force
amendment
Republicanism
Abraham Lincoln
2. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
13th Amendment
Suez Canal
Magna Carta
Oligarchy
3. Government process of charging a fee on goods - products - people and/or activities
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Treaty of Paris 1783
Taxation
Ben Franklin
4. Government where the religious leader run the government
Mesoamerica civilizations
Theocracy
Labor force
Montesquieu
5. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Draco
Silk Road
ziggurats
Montesquieu
6. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Cotton Gin
Oligarchy
Thomas Jefferson
Columbian Exchange
7. Established Judicial Review.
Iron Curtain
Bartering
Scientific Revolution
Marbury v. Madison
8. A form of government that controls every aspect of public and private life. EX: Hitler in Germany
Limited Government
Life Expectancy
Totalitarianism
Andean civilization
9. The System in the U.S. and other free market economies. It includes economic choice - competition - profit motive - and limited government regulation of the economy.
(naval) blockade
Renaissance
Free - enterprise economic system
Civil War
10. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Labor force
Straits
Founding of Jamestown
Monotheism
11. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Basic Needs
nullify
The Senate
English Bill of Rights
12. 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
Renaissance
rural
English Bill of Rights
13. Gives citizenship rights to all people born of naturalized in the U.S. It states that citizens will have equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
cultural diffusion
Hammurabi
Karl Marx
14. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
Basic Needs
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
15. People who settle and live in a colony
colonists
Montesquieu
George Washington
limited government
16. Renaissance Value that humans are important. It shifted the focus from the after life (religion) to a person's life on earth
McCullough v. Maryland
Humanism
Justinian
Subsistence agriculture
17. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Andean civilization
Constitutional Conv.
Ben Franklin
Popular Sovereignty
18. To cut off supplies; a military and economic tool used to force a nation or area to suffer shortages and to give up fighting.
Emancipation Proclamation
Cuneiform
(naval) blockade
ziggurats
19. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Emancipation Proclamation
Oligarchy
Iron Curtain
Representative democracy
20. All things that surround us.
environment
Articles of Confederation
urban
Land Ordinance of 1785
21. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Life Expectancy
Straits of Hormuz
Enlightenment
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
22. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Capitalism/Market Economy
Taxation
Mesoamerica civilizations
Ben Franklin
23. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th of this year in Philadelphia by delegated of the Second Continental Congress.
1776
Monotheism
Free - enterprise economic system
Absolute Monarchy
24. The spread of ideas - people and places to new places
Thomas Jefferson
Schism
nullify
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
25. Chinese invention that helped make sea travel across the Atlantic Ocean possible
Bill of Rights
Magnetic Compass
Natural Barriers
Magna Carta
26. Separate is not equal in public Schools
Monroe doctrine
Civil War
Brown v. Board of Edu.
suburban
27. Technology used by early farmers to get water to the crops
subsistence agriculture
Straits
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Irrigation Canals
28. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Straits
Declaration of Indepen.
English Bill of Rights
Panama Canal
29. 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.
Bubonic Plague
Nationalism
Force Bill
Oligarchy
30. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Bartering
Bill of Rights
Constitutional Monarchy
14th Amendment
31. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Separation of Powers .
15th Amendment
95 Theses
Federalism
32. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Panama Canal
International Trade
Marbury v. Madison
George Washington
33. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
English Bill of Rights
trade
Nationalism
Middle Ages
34. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Magna Carta
1791
Civil War 1861-1865
Cuneiform
35. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Protestant Reformation
Schism
limited government
36. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
14th Amendment
Separation of Powers
primary source
tariff
37. Each branch of government has a way to restrict/check the actions of the other 2 branches
Federalism
Limited Government
Checks and Balances
McCullough v. Maryland
38. Having just enough food to survive with very little left over
Subsistence agriculture
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Taxation
Commercial Agriculture
39. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
Karl Marx
Federalist Papers
colonists
Andean civilization
40. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Magna Carta
Fund. Order of Conn.
Individual Rights
Infant Mortality
41. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
Unconstitutional
States Rights
Representative Democracy
Justinian
42. Pride in ones country
Popular Sovereignty
15th Amendment
Nationalism
Monroe doctrine
43. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
Thomas Jefferson
Basic Needs
suffrage
1215
44. Movement that began to correct problem in the Roman Catholic Church. It caused a split and the development of Protestant Churches
Fertile Crescent
Protestant Reformation
The Senate
Bill of Rights
45. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Representative democracy
Bubonic Plague
95 Theses
46. King of England during the American Revolution.
Consent of the Governed
King George III
Popular Sovereignty
Articles of Confederation
47. Beginning of self - government by Colonists.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Absolute Monarchy
1787-1789
Limited Government
48. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
International Trade
limited government
Parliament
Consent of the Governed
49. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Age of Reason
Civil War
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
George Washington
50. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
cultural diffusion
Bill of Rights
suburban
Subsistence economy