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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. Refers to the amount and quality of economic and industrial resources - often related to national income.
level of development
Schism
Renaissance
suburban
2. Water way through Panama that shortens the distance by water from East coast of the US to the West Coast
Panama Canal
Magna Carta
urban
Infant Mortality
3. Average number of children that die by the age of 5
rural
Checks and Balances
ratify
Infant Mortality
4. The production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers
Glorious/Bloodless Revolution
Factory System
Straits of Hormuz
Barriers
5. Use of scientific method to find out how the world worked.
Age of Reason
Famine
Individual Rights
Separation of Powers
6. Banned slavery throughout the nation.
13th Amendment
English Bill of Rights
House of Burgesses
Barriers
7. Supporters of the Constitution. They favored a strong national government.
Federalist
Articles of Conf.
Thomas Jefferson
Longitude
8. Member of a country.
States Rights
Mesoamerica civilizations
Republic
citizen
9. This is also referred to as a city
Cathedrals
Urban
ziggurats
Articles of Confederation
10. Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
13th Amendment
Unconstitutional
Natural Barriers
veto
11. Information that comes from other sources such as a textbook - encyclopedia.
King George III
Indulgences
secondary source
Suez Canal
12. Basic economy that was used in early farming and hunting and gathering societies
Cotton Gin
Traditional economy
Factory System
(naval) blockade
13. Making goods out of the home
Representative democracy
Cottage industry
Civil War 1861-1865
Individual Rights
14. Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code
Individual Rights
Draco
urban
Longitude
15. Wrote the Declaration of Independence; colonial leader - 3rd President.
1066
bias
Magna Carta
Thomas Jefferson
16. Gave voting rights to all males over 21 regardless of race.
limited government
Communism/Command Economy
15th Amendment
Anti - Federalists
17. 1st American Constitution; States had too much power.
Representative democracy
Articles of Confederation
Checks and Balances
14th Amendment
18. Guaranteed/protected basic rights of the English citizens and foundation for US Bill of Rights
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
English Bill of Rights
Natural Barriers
Middle Ages
19. Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts.
Unconstitutional
Anti - Federalist
Emancipation Proclamation
Civil War
20. Trade route that went from China to the Middle East and into Europe - called the Silk Road b/c of the Silk only coming from China
Industrial Revolution
Cottage industry
Silk Road
Mayflower Compact
21. Early river valley civilization located in modern day Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
McCullough v. Maryland
Fertile Crescent
Force Bill
subsistence agriculture
22. Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation
Immigration patterns
Adam Smith
95 Theses
Cotton Gin
23. Strong nations seek to dominate other countries (territories) politically - economically - or socially
Bubonic Plague
Age of Reason
George Washington
Imperialism
24. US first plan of government that failed because of the weak central (national) government
Industrial Revolution
14th Amendment
Direct Democracy
Articles of Confederation
25. Complaints
grievance
Hammurabi
1863 Emancipation Pro
Fertile Crescent
26. Prelude to the Civil War. South Carolina believed a State had the power to override the Federal (National) Government
Federalist Papers
Land Ordinance of 1785
Subsistence agriculture
Nullification Crisis
27. Law code signed by King John of England that limited his power and was the first time for limited government
Monroe doctrine
Magna Carta
14th Amendment
Nullification Crisis
28. Average number of years people live
Bill of Rights
Life Expectancy
Karl Marx
95 Theses
29. King/queen who has unlimited power
Federalism
Absolute Monarchy
1863 Emancipation Pro
Republic
30. Guaranteed English Citizens certain rights and stated that elections for Parliament were to be held often.
Mayflower Compact
English Bill of Rights
Unconstitutional
Enlightenment
31. A historic period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic
suffrage
era
Federalist Papers
Age of Reason
32. He was commander of the Continental Army - defeated Cornwallis at the Battle Yorktown - and 1st president of the U.S. A.
Infant Mortality
Self Determination
George Washington
standard of living
33. The year the Magna Carta - the cornerstone of English justice and law was signed
Federalism
Polytheism
1215
Land Ordinance of 1785
34. Economic thinker that developed communism
95 Theses
Karl Marx
Hammurabi
Migration
35. Rulers power is limited by law - Great Britain's current form of government since Glorious Revolution
Straits
Constitutional Monarchy
Declaration of Independence
unalienable
36. Flat - horizontal lines on a map
15th Amendment
Latitude
Industrial Revolution
Montesquieu
37. Articles published to get support for the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
suburban
Civil War 1861-1865
tariff
38. Quality of life - such as housing - health - education
Cuneiform
1066
Emancipation Proclamation
Standard of living
39. Trading goods or services for other goods or services
Latitude
Silk Road
Bartering
House of Burgesses
40. Commander of the Continental Army and 1st President.
Parliament
George Washington
Imperialism
cultural diffusion
41. A narrow body of water linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman causing a choke point.
Representative Democracy
George Washington
amendment
Straits of Hormuz
42. Writing system in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Monroe doctrine
Hammurabi
Diffusion/spatial exchange (cultural diffusion)
43. Citizens vote for representatives who make and enforce the laws. US form of government
Life Expectancy
Silk Road
Representative democracy
Republicanism
44. First 10 Amendments supporting individual freedoms.
suburban
international
Justinian
Bill of Rights
45. When was the U.S. Constitution written and ratified?
trade
1787-1789
ratify
Totalitarianism
46. First organizing of 13 colonies.
standard of living
1787
Articles of Conf.
Monroe doctrine
47. Enlightened thinker/inventor. Oldest delegate to Const. Convention.
Industrialization
Ben Franklin
Unconstitutional
Totalitarianism
48. The concept that political power rests with the people who create and can alter or abolish government.
cottage industry
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Popular Sovereignty
49. Relating to the countryside - of or in the countryside.
Age of Exploration & Colonization
Standard of living
rural
Canals
50. He created the first assembly line used for manufacturing of automobiles
Henry Ford
Per Capita Income
market - oriented agriculture
Theocracy