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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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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. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
population growth
Gibbons vs. Ogden
gross domestic product
Thomas Jefferson
2. Widespread hunger within a given region
Frederick Douglas
famine
President Thomas Jefferson
acquire
3. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
Proclamation of 1763
Cotton Gin
Treaty of Paris of 1763
population growth
4. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
secondary sources
accusations
subsistence economy
federalism
5. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
The Declaration of Independence
route
market economy
6. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Gettysburg Adress
Democracy
Cotton Gin
The Constitution of the United States
7. To withdraw or pull away
geographical
secede
direct representation
Bessemer Process
8. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
Mayflower Compact
resolution
cultivation
Steamboat
9. To contaminate or corup
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Tubman
infected
secondary sources
10. Compliantes againsts a person or state
diplomatic relations
benjamin franklin
grievance
antifederalist
11. Series of essays written by James Madison - John Jay - Alexander Hamilton - defending the Consituion and the principles on which the government of the United States was founded
subsistence economy
Federalist Papers
relevant
infectious disease
12. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
export
legitmacy
government bureaucracy
magna carta
13. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
Cotton Gin
federalism
turmoil
magna carta
14. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Mayflower Compact
prospertiy
secondary sources
draft
15. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Farewell Address
Tea Act
Marbury vs. Madison
Proclamation of 1763
16. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
finalcial resources
federalism
James Monroe
milestones
17. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
tyranny
harsh
raw materials
significant
18. Is a cruel and unjust government
Andrew Jackson
secondary sources
tyranny
The first shots of the American Revolution
19. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
command economy
prospertiy
Henry Clay
tyranny
20. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Emancipation Proclamations
tariff
Cotton Gin
Daniel Webster
21. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
Daniel Webster
accusations
sixth amendment
federalism
22. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Frederick Douglas
Henry Clay
ninth amendment
currency
23. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
theocracy
crossroads
militia
tyranny
24. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
urban
John C. Calhoun
direct representation
commader
25. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
Thirteenth Amendment
King George III
Ulysses S grant
Reaper
26. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
Samuel Adams
foreign policy
nullification
landlocked
27. Changing iron into steal
Fifteenth Amendment
Bessemer Process
raw materials
milestones
28. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
tariff
popular culture 'pop culture'
infected
efficiency
29. The right to vote
King George III
suffrage
resolution
third amendment
30. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
cottage industry
amendment
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
first amendment
31. Not allowed
crossroads
famine
prohibited
Patrick Henry
32. Robert Fulton
Steamboat
primary sources
Robert E. Lee
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
33. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
gross domestic product
checks and balances
Battle of Gettysburg
34. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
Federalist Papers
economic status
turmoil
diversity
35. The constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to counsel - the right to confront witnesses - and the right to a speedy and public trial.
crossroads
antifederalist
sixth amendment
Susan B Anothony
36. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
relevant
nullify
Battle of Saratoga
secede
37. Abolished slavery
famine
secede
Thirteenth Amendment
tyranny
38. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
prohibited
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
autocracy
geographical
39. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Daniel Webster
currency
Tenth Amedment
democratic republic
40. Realting to an event
antifederalist
relevant
Thirteenth Amendment
tariff
41. Having to do with clothing
state's rights
Seperation of Powers
free enterprise
textile
42. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
second amendment
Bessemer Process
Battle of Gettysburg
grievance
43. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
harsh
Emancipation Proclamations
treason
civil disobedience
44. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
Steamboat
nullify
free enterprise economy
standard of living
45. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
abolition
Tenth Amedment
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
tariff
46. Means to improve by vote
theocracy
migration
ratify
Thomas Jefferson
47. The state of acting according to law; lawful
Samuel Adams
diversity
primary sources
legitmacy
48. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Emancipation Proclamations
diplomatic relations
Impeach
Battle of Gettysburg
49. Important; of consequence
significant
raw materials
livstock
The Constitution of the United States
50. John Deere
draft
Steel Plow
Frederick Douglas
Northwest Ordiance