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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Slanted coverage or one - sided information about an event; prejudiced information.
Taxation
bias
English Bill of Rights
Suez Canal
2. Having industries for the machine production of goods
Industrialized
international
Taxation
Age of Reason
3. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
15th Amendment
Republicanism
Articles of Confederation
suffrage
4. Belief in many gods
suburban
Separation of Powers .
Polytheism
Federalist Papers
5. Part of the Legislative Branch whose job is to makes the Laws
The Senate
Age of Exploration & Colonization
suffrage
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
6. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
Secularism
Industrial Revolution
secondary source
Nationalism
7. Leader of Great Britain in WWII who coined the phrase Iron Curtain
Separation of Powers .
bias
Literacy Rate
Winston Churchill
8. Belief in one god
1776
Monotheism
veto
bias
9. Invented by Eli Whitney it removed the seeds from cotton quicker than by hand which helped increase production
Articles of Conf.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Scientific Revolution
Cotton Gin
10. Split in the church
Schism
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Treaty of Paris 1783
Inalienable/Unalienable
11. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Magnetic Compass
Marbury v. Madison
Absolute Monarchy
Straits of Hormuz
12. Disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism
Abe Lincoln
Columbian Exchange
Bubonic Plague
Panama Canal
13. Temples in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Articles of Confederation
Thomas Jefferson
ziggurats
McCullough v. Maryland
14. Meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of Government. Great Compromise.
bias
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Constitutional Conv.
Checks and Balances
15. Statement made by Abraham Lincoln which essentially freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Middle Ages
Infant Mortality
16. Mountains - deserts and oceans
Natural Barriers
Self Determination
Federalist Papers
unalienable
17. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
George Washington
Popular Sovereignty
Immigration patterns
primary source
18. Growing crops for the commercial sale and distribution to domestic and international buyers.
Popular Sovereignty
Emancipation Proclamation
market - oriented agriculture
End of Reconstruction
19. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
Magnetic Compass
The Senate
Straits
Draco
20. The right to vote and the exercise of that right.
suffrage
Age of Reason
Inalienable/Unalienable
exports
21. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
The Senate
Representative Democracy
level of development
Capitalism/Market Economy
22. Right of groups of people to create their own nation
level of development
Self Determination
Nationalism
Abe Lincoln
23. Passed in 1689 in England - this document guaranteed English citizens certain rights and set a procedure for electing representatives to Parliament.
era
Abraham Lincoln
Karl Marx
English Bill of Rights
24. Life - Liberty - property or Life - Liberty - the Pursuit of Happiness
Natural Rights / Individual Rights
Irrigation Canals
1776
The Senate
25. An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people - private property does not exist - and all goods and services are shared equally
market - oriented agriculture
Communism/Command Economy
Industrialized
Consent of the Governed
26. 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.
Industrial Revolution
Free - enterprise economic system
Printing Press
Self Determination
27. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Industrial Revolution
Standard of living
1791
Atlantic Slave Trade
28. Government were citizens elect representatives ex: Rome Greece
rural
Magna Carta
Republic
Thomas Jefferson
29. Idea that people give government its power through the 'just consent of the governed' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Consent of the Governed
Bill of Rights
George Washington
Civil War
30. Goods sold to buyers outside the country.
primary source
Nullification Crisis
King George III
exports
31. Small - scale production requiring little capital.
Monotheism
Migration
cottage industry
trade
32. Smaller community located in the area surround a city.
Federalist Papers
Articles of Confederation
suburban
Urban
33. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
George Washington
Founding of Jamestown
Force Bill
Absolute Monarchy
34. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Traditional economy
tariff
Karl Marx
Urban
35. 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 .
Subsistence agriculture
Representative Democracy
Civil War 1861-1865
36. Emporer of the Byzantine Empire who wrote a law code
King George III
Consent of the Governed
Justinian
1776
37. Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution; 1st President of the U.S.
Oligarchy
George Washington
veto
Crusaders
38. First representative assembly in American
Basic Needs
Mesoamerica civilizations
House of Burgesses
Factory System
39. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
95 Theses
Emancipation Proclamation
Imperialism
Bartering
40. The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal and state governments.
Checks and Balances
House of Burgesses
Industrialization
federalism
41. Union vs. Confederacy. Jefferson Davis is President of the South; Lincoln of the North
secondary source
House of Burgesses
Civil War
suburban
42. Member of a country.
Crusaders
Ben Franklin
Oligarchy
citizen
43. To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something.
nullify
Bill of Rights
Constitutional Monarchy
Declaration of Indepen.
44. Proposed the ideas of natural rights - life liberty - property
Sub - Saharan Africa .
Communism/Command Economy
John Locke
Latitude
45. The rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Cotton Gin
Constitutional Monarchy
Representative democracy
Individual Rights
46. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Natural Barriers
rural
Constitutional Monarchy
Cotton Gin
47. Curbed States' Rights
Representative democracy
McCullough v. Maryland
Industrial Revolution
veto
48. Belief in worldly rather than spiritual ideas
The Nullification Crisis
Longitude
Secularism
Land Ordinance of 1785
49. Prohibits the use of race or previous condition of slavery as a barrier to voting. Applied to male citizens over the age of 21.
McCullough v. Maryland
Checks and Balances
15th Amendment
subsistence agriculture
50. Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion.
Emancipation Proclamation
Cotton Gin
15th Amendment
market - oriented agriculture