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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. Europeans explored and conquered much of the world. Goal was to find trade route to Asia
secondary source
Schism
Civil War 1861-1865
Age of Exploration & Colonization
2. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
1787-1789
Magna Carta
Natural Barriers
Latitude
3. 1607 first colony in America. Established representative government based on the British system of government
Abraham Lincoln
House of Burgesses
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Founding of Jamestown
4. Tax on imports and exports.
veto
tariff
Suez Canal
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
5. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
nullify
Industrialized
federalism
environment
6. Government where citizens vote directly on laws - ex: Athens
Direct Democracy
bias
era
Infant Mortality
7. Began when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if the federal gov't tried to collect tariffs duties in their state.
unalienable
15th Amendment
The Nullification Crisis
Adam Smith
8. 1st written constitution
Crusaders
Fund. Order of Conn.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Popular Sovereignty
9. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
bias
rural
Articles of Confederation
Magnetic Compass
10. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Capitalism/Market Economy
urban
1776
Unconstitutional
11. Abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other.
Checks and Balances
Civil War 1861-1865
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
Factory System
12. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
Montesquieu
Secularism
15th Amendment
Immigration patterns
13. The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution.
1791
Bill of Rights
Age of Reason
Cuneiform
14. Routes of human movement from one area into another.
limited government
Federalist
(naval) blockade
Immigration patterns
15. American Civil War fought over the issues of slavery - states' rights - and economic and sectional differences between the North and the South.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Magna Carta
George Washington
Civil War 1861-1865
16. 1st 10 Amendments which guarantee individual rights
Federalism
Bill of Rights
McCullough v. Maryland
trade
17. An original document - artifact - picture - journal - cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event.
Labor force
House of Burgesses
primary source
Hammurabi
18. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Articles of Confederation
Checks and Balances
King George III
Marbury v. Madison
19. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
International Trade
The Senate
cottage industry
Land Ordinance of 1785
20. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Traditional economy
Magnetic Compass
Plessy v. Ferguson
Monroe doctrine
21. The land south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that includes some of the world's richest mineral deposits and fertile land.
Emancipation Proclamation
Sub - Saharan Africa .
unalienable
Marbury v. Madison
22. To officially approve.
nullify
ratify
Articles of Confederation
era
23. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
Suez Canal
Self Determination
ziggurats
veto
24. King/queen who has unlimited power
Immigration patterns
Absolute Monarchy
Irrigation Canals
Age of Exploration & Colonization
25. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
exports
Factory System
Inalienable/Unalienable
Republicanism
26. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
Cuneiform
nullify
Barriers
Marbury v. Madison
27. One of the 1st written Constitutions of the Colonies. (1639)
Individual Rights
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Magnetic Compass
Abraham Lincoln
28. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Monotheism
Civil War
13th Amendment
Straits
29. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Emancipation Proclamation
King George III
subsistence agriculture
ziggurats
30. The law- making assembly in Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies.
Separation of Powers .
Parliament
Hammurabi
English Bill of Rights
31. 1st Representative government assembly in the colonies (1619)
Articles of Confederation
House of Burgesses
Popular Sovereignty
Bill of Rights
32. Division of power between the national (federal) and state governments - ex.: national gov't coins money and the state gov't cannot
Federalism
States Rights
Bartering
Monotheism
33. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Fertile Crescent
market - oriented agriculture
Federalist
1787
34. A government that elects its leaders
Theocracy
Columbian Exchange
1066
Republic
35. 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
Magnetic Compass
Articles of Confederation
George Washington
Middle Ages
36. U.S. was divided over the issues of states rights and slavery
Fund. Order of Conn.
Parliament
Civil War
Representative democracy
37. King of England during the American Revolution.
King George III
Republic
Subsistence agriculture
English Bill of Rights
38. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
unalienable
market - oriented agriculture
1791
Republic
39. Statistical data of a population like - GDP per capita - Life Expectance - Literacy Rate - Infant mortality - ethnicity - religion etc
Demographics
Suez Canal
Indulgences
Secularism
40. Having to do with one's own homeland
suffrage
domestic
Checks and Balances
veto
41. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
colonists
Industrial Revolution
Self Determination
Cotton Gin
42. Who opposed the Constitution?
urban
Individual Rights
Anti - Federalists
Infant Mortality
43. Battle of Hastings - centralized government
Totalitarianism
1066
subsistence agriculture
Declaration of Independence
44. Rebirth of ideas - art - and architecture of the Greeks and Romans
House of Burgesses
Renaissance
Separation of Powers
Force Bill
45. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
Federalist Papers
Popular Sovereignty
Justinian
Bill of Rights
46. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
limited government
Mayflower Compact
Treaty of Paris 1783
Latitude
47. Average income per person
Per Capita Income
Mesoamerica civilizations
Oligarchy
suburban
48. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
States Rights
Monotheism
15th Amendment
level of development
49. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Consent of the Governed
Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
Free - enterprise economic system
50. Exchange of goods and services.
Schism
Straits of Hormuz
trade
Hammurabi