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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. An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit (money)
Middle Ages
Capitalism/Market Economy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Montesquieu
2. Exchange of goods and ideas (commerce) between the new nations and different parts of the world expanded
Bill of Rights
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
citizen
International Trade
3. 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.
Federalist
Crusaders
Articles of Confederation
Abraham Lincoln
4. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
Republic
Atlantic Slave Trade
era
Theocracy
5. Colonies separate from England... 'unalienable rights'
House of Burgesses
Declaration of Indepen.
Free - enterprise economic system
13th Amendment
6. Lincoln frees slaves in the states of rebellion.
Traditional economy
1863 Emancipation Pro
rural
International Trade
7. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
The Nullification Crisis
Magna Carta
1787-1789
Andean civilization
8. Movement of people from on country or location to another
Traditional economy
Migration
Basic Needs
Self Determination
9. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Separation of Powers
Mayflower Compact (1620)
15th Amendment
Natural Barriers
10. U.S. Constitution written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation and decided to draft a new plan of government for the U.S.
Free - enterprise economic system
cultural diffusion
Limited Government
1787
11. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
urban
suffrage
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
12. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Schism
Founding of Jamestown
International Trade
suffrage
13. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Straits of Hormuz
Famine
Abraham Lincoln
Monroe doctrine
14. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Limited Government
Magna Carta
Federalism
15. Complaints
Atlantic Slave Trade
amendment
grievance
Justinian
16. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Straits
Henry Ford
Abraham Lincoln
1776
17. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Taxation
Famine
Civil War 1861-1865
Federalist Papers
18. 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
secondary source
Articles of Confederation
Columbian Exchange
Emancipation Proclamation
19. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Iron Curtain
trade
international
House of Burgesses
20. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Federalist
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Cathedrals
Checks and Balances
21. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Bill of Rights
1215
amendment
Separation of Powers .
22. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
The Nullification Crisis
Constitutional Monarchy
95 Theses
Justinian
23. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Subsistence agriculture
colonists
Henry Ford
international
24. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
grievance
English Bill of Rights
Cottage industry
Marbury v. Madison
25. Upheld the idea of separated but equal
urban
Demographics
Plessy v. Ferguson
Bill of Rights
26. President of the United States during the Civil War
Limited Government
Straits
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
27. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
States Rights
Nullification Crisis
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Abraham Lincoln
28. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Industrial Revolution
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
End of Reconstruction
Emancipation Proclamation
29. Tax on imports and exports.
Printing Press
Latitude
tariff
Fertile Crescent
30. Split in the church
era
Schism
Protestant Reformation
urban
31. Curbed States' Rights
Theocracy
Representative democracy
Mayflower Compact
McCullough v. Maryland
32. Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
15th Amendment
unalienable
Demographics
Representative Government
33. A series of essays written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Federalist Papers
Oligarchy
Plessy v. Ferguson
34. The idea that government is controlled by the people who hold power and elect representatives - giving those representatives power to make and enforce laws.
Republicanism
colonists
Crusaders
Civil War
35. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Fertile Crescent
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Separation of Powers
36. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Marbury v. Madison
Crusaders
Middle Ages
The Senate
37. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
Civil War
Cathedrals
Scientific Revolution
Absolute Monarchy
38. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
Articles of Conf.
English Bill of Rights
The Senate
15th Amendment
39. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Nationalism
Emancipation Proclamation
Urban
Cathedrals
40. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Demographics
Communism/Command Economy
States Rights
Commercial Agriculture
41. Rights that cannot be taken away or surrendered.
Representative democracy
unalienable
George Washington
Theocracy
42. Government where the religious leader run the government
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Factory System
Panama Canal
Theocracy
43. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Cuneiform
Subsistence economy
13th Amendment
Republicanism
44. The idea that the power of government is divided into three branches of gov't.
Separation of Powers
U.S. Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Federalist Papers
45. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
1787-1789
Traditional economy
bias
suburban
46. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
international
Labor force
Representative Government
subsistence agriculture
47. Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in the Americas and Caribbean region
Winston Churchill
Atlantic Slave Trade
House of Burgesses
Taxation
48. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
suburban
Andean civilization
Force Bill
exports
49. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Mayflower Compact
Renaissance
citizen
Andean civilization
50. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Montesquieu
House of Burgesses
ziggurats
bias