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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. Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason.
Force Bill
Checks and Balances
Plessy v. Ferguson
Enlightenment
2. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Brown v. Board of Edu.
Iron Curtain
1215
States Rights
3. Issue of the Civil War. South believed the States had more power than the Federal Government
Individual Rights
Industrial Revolution
States Rights
cottage industry
4. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
rural
Federalist Papers
Representative Government
Abe Lincoln
5. Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra for sale.
Suez Canal
Andean civilization
amendment
subsistence agriculture
6. Average income per person
Federalist Papers
Per Capita Income
Articles of Confederation
Emancipation Proclamation
7. President of the United States during the Civil War
Bartering
Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Checks and Balances
8. Split in the church
Justinian
Schism
King George III
Urban
9. 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
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Bubonic Plague
Magna Carta
10. Term used to describe the division between Western (democratic) Europe and Eastern (communist) Europe
Famine
Traditional economy
Longitude
Iron Curtain
11. Mass production of food
Urban
Individual Rights
1787
Commercial Agriculture
12. Extreme hunger and scarcity of food
Famine
(naval) blockade
Standard of living
Industrialization
13. Economic thinker that developed communism
Bill of Rights
Thomas Jefferson
Karl Marx
English Bill of Rights
14. Water way through Egypt that connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Republicanism
primary source
Cuneiform
Suez Canal
15. Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Checks and Balances
Barriers
Urban
14th Amendment
16. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
1215
Andean civilization
Magna Carta
Sub - Saharan Africa .
17. 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
Basic Needs
level of development
market - oriented agriculture
Columbian Exchange
18. Average number of years people live
veto
Life Expectancy
secondary source
Winston Churchill
19. All things that surround us.
unalienable
environment
International Trade
Mayflower Compact
20. Exchange of goods and services.
trade
standard of living
Industrial Revolution
Bill of Rights
21. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
McCullough v. Maryland
Industrial Revolution
Declaration of Indepen.
market - oriented agriculture
22. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
House of Burgesses
Direct Democracy
colonists
The Nullification Crisis
23. 1st written constitution
imports
Fund. Order of Conn.
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Parliament
24. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Free - enterprise economic system
George Washington
McCullough v. Maryland
primary source
25. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
Popular Sovereignty
exports
Karl Marx
Thomas Jefferson
26. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
The Senate
Life Expectancy
Federalism
John Locke
27. Limited the power of the King in 1215
Henry Ford
standard of living
Magna Carta
Republicanism
28. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Federalism
Representative Democracy
English Bill of Rights
Bartering
29. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Republic
Consent of the Governed
federalism
Limited Government
30. Relating to the city - of or in a city.
urban
Mesoamerica civilizations
Marbury v. Madison
Infant Mortality
31. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Separation of Powers .
Direct Democracy
Atlantic Slave Trade
1776
32. Complaints
Magna Carta
Abraham Lincoln
suburban
grievance
33. Developed complex societies such as the Inca
subsistence agriculture
Andean civilization
1776
Emancipation Proclamation
34. Similar to traditional economy and associated with subsistence agriculture
Subsistence economy
Enlightenment
Crusaders
Monroe doctrine
35. Up and down - vertical lines on a map
Oligarchy
Longitude
Draco
Natural Barriers
36. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Emancipation Proclamation
suburban
Thomas Jefferson
Articles of Confederation
37. Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled
Longitude
Crusaders
Land Ordinance of 1785
Enlightenment
38. Period in Europe that began after the fall of the Roman Empire Characterized by feudalism - Roman Catholic Church was the unifier of the age with more power than Kings/Lords
States Rights
Mayflower Compact
Checks and Balances
Middle Ages
39. Shift from agriculture to industry (commercial industry) mass production of goods. It also led to the growth of cities and global trade
Civil War
Representative Government
Declaration of Indepen.
Industrial Revolution
40. Europe would not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Atlantic Slave Trade
Age of Reason
Monroe doctrine
Limited Government
41. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Adam Smith
Labor force
Theocracy
bias
42. Declares slavery illegal in the United States.
Hammurabi
Republicanism
Demographics
13th Amendment
43. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Republicanism
Infant Mortality
Declaration of Independence
Parliament
44. 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
Popular Sovereignty
Imperialism
Straits
Anti - Federalist
45. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
Straits
Straits of Hormuz
Limited Government
Renaissance
46. Food - clothing - shelter (water is food)
1787-1789
Basic Needs
Nullification Crisis
Protestant Reformation
47. Supreme Court can decide if a law violates the Constitution
Marbury v. Madison
Printing Press
The Senate
Latitude
48. Troops removed from the South by President Hayes.
Industrial Revolution
Emancipation Proclamation
Cathedrals
End of Reconstruction
49. Signed in England - this document provided limits to the power of the king.
The Senate
Magna Carta
Montesquieu
Famine
50. Type of government where - through law - some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy.
Standard of living
Migration
limited government
imports