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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
government bureaucracy
Reaper
federal
Patrick Henry
2. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
ninth amendment
Democracy
Federalist Papers
Northwest Ordiance
3. An agreement singed in 1620 b the Pilgrims in Playmouth - to consult each other baout laws for the colony and a promise to work together to make it succeed. Postive step towards self - rule.
Civil War
Mayflower Compact
Northwest Ordiance
magna carta
4. To withdraw or pull away
End of the American Revolution
Thirteenth Amendment
grievance
secede
5. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
efficiency
finalcial resources
democratic republic
King George III
6. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
commercial
federalism
livstock
Jamestown
7. Relationships that exsits between governments
End of the American Revolution
treason
diplomatic relations
theocracy
8. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
urban
cultivation
Seperation of Powers
landlocked
9. Realting to an event
acquire
Mexican Cession
relevant
draft
10. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
First shot of Civil War
nullification
Alexander Hamilton
standard of living
11. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
first amendment
command economy
Fifteenth Amendment
benjamin franklin
12. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
labor force
checks and balances
draft
Patrick Henry
13. Stated that - 'no state..can lawfully get out of the Union..' bt pledged there would be no war unless the South started it - was ment to hlep heal and resore the country after four years of the Civil War
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14. Ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America; ended the American Revolution and foreced Britian to recginze the United States as an idependent Nations
Bessemer Process
geographical
Tenth Amedment
Treaty of Paris of 1763
15. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
The Constitution of the United States
labor force
prohibited
16. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
first amendment
Frederick Douglas
raw materials
Daniel Webster
17. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
civil disobedience
Reaper
Battle of Gettysburg
limited government
18. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
relevant
secondary sources
federalism
Patrick Henry
19. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Mexican Cession
Daniel Webster
command economy
rural
20. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Mayflower Compact
James Madison
primary sources
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
21. The right to vote
magna carta
treason
route
suffrage
22. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
free enterprise
suffrage
civil disobedience
popular soverignty
23. Leader of the original democratic party and a 'president of the pople' he was also responsbible for the Trail of Tears - which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River
Andrew Jackson
population density
significant
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
24. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
turmoil
possessions
Fourteenth Amendment
life expectancy
25. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
acquire
Impeach
Samuel Adams
Steamboat
26. Economic theory that a country's strength is measured by the amount of gold it has that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the the Mother Country
legitmacy
relevant
mercantilism
possessions
27. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
free enterprise
command economy
direct representation
provisions
28. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
free enterprise
life expectancy
militia
Emancipation Proclamations
29. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
Battle of Saratoga
Bill of Rights
absolute monarch
prospertiy
30. Important; of consequence
abolition
James Monroe
Battle of Gettysburg
significant
31. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
devastated
first amendment
crossroads
32. A point at which an important decision must be made
adjacent
crossroads
mercantilism
free enterprise
33. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
direct representation
theocracy
livstock
magna carta
34. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
milestones
crossroads
primary sources
Ulysses S grant
35. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
popular culture 'pop culture'
subsistence economy
migration
Steel Plow
36. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
per capita income
ratify
nullify
Patrick Henry
37. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
export
sixth amendment
James Madison
38. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
Patrick Henry
William Lloyd Garrison
popular culture 'pop culture'
Civil War
39. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Steel Plow
Jamestown
labor force
diversity
40. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
nullification
grievance
prospertiy
subsistence economy
41. Widespread hunger within a given region
famine
Tea Act
Navigation Acts
Bessemer Process
42. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
magna carta
Harriet Tubman
unalienable right
diversity
43. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
infectious disease
literacy rate
autocracy
cultivation
44. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
The Great Compromise
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
prospertiy
tariff
45. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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46. To obtain or receive
Tea Act
autocracy
Fourteenth Amendment
acquire
47. John Deere
government bureaucracy
Steel Plow
secede
textile
48. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
export
ratify
Tea Act
Mexican Cession
49. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
relevant
per capita income
amendment
civil disobedience
50. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Harriet Tubman
autocracy
landlocked
adjacent