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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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1. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Bessemer Process
The Great Compromise
command economy
Common Sense
2. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Battle of Gettysburg
Fifteenth Amendment
significant
economic status
3. Things that you own
possessions
free enterprise
rural
legitmacy
4. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
tariff
Henry Clay
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
5. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
censorship
milestones
cottage industry
commercial
6. To obtain or receive
Cotton Gin
acquire
migration
harsh
7. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
government bureaucracy
turmoil
population density
provisions
8. Women's rights organizer
Daniel Webster
abolition
amendment
Susan B Anothony
9. 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
route
mercantilism
Navigation Acts
limited government
10. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
third amendment
benjamin franklin
devastated
11. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
President Thomas Jefferson
gross domestic product
prohibited
federal
12. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
federalism
Steel Plow
migration
diversity
13. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
acquire
James Monroe
urban
Conord Massachusetts
14. Realting to an event
King George III
relevant
The first shots of the American Revolution
Jefferson Davis
15. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
First shot of Civil War
Fourteenth Amendment
free enterprise economy
Tenth Amedment
16. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
livstock
export
prospertiy
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
17. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
Jefferson Davis
militia
subsistence economy
Fifteenth Amendment
18. An act of the Second Continental Congress - adopted on July 4 - 1776 - which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were 'Free and Independent States' and that 'all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain - is a
End of the American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence
tariff
migration
19. To be compeletly destroyed
secondary sources
Civil War
provisions
devastated
20. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
efficiency
separation of powers
Susan B Anothony
prospertiy
21. The Supreme Court decision that rulled that the consitution gave contorl of interstate comerce to the U.S. congress not the individual states trhough whih a route passed
Civil War
Daniel Webster
second amendment
Gibbons vs. Ogden
22. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
acquire
third amendment
Democracy
Reaper
23. The supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted on September 17 - 1787 - by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - and later ratified by conventions in each state in the name of 'the People';
theocracy
The Constitution of the United States
separation of powers
Abraham Lincoln
24. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
civil disobedience
resolution
raw materials
Reaper
25. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
Abraham Lincoln
currency
economic status
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
26. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
The Constitution of the United States
literacy rate
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
suffrage
27. To withdraw or pull away
secede
Bill of Rights
First shot of Civil War
Judicial Review
28. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
King George III
life expectancy
The Declaration of Independence
William Lloyd Garrison
29. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
Interchangeable Parts
King George III
limited government
benjamin franklin
30. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
raw materials
federal
route
suffrage
31. Means to improve by vote
ratify
literacy rate
resolution
secondary sources
32. Having to do with clothing
primary sources
textile
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Adress
33. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
John C. Calhoun
livstock
Judicial Review
militia
34. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
secondary sources
Farewell Address
checks and balances
antifederalist
35. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
amend
devastated
Samuel Adams
cultivation
36. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
acquire
Civil War
devastated
Ulysses S grant
37. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
export
limited government
Ulysses S grant
King George III
38. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
Tea Act
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
nullify
distribution
39. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Daniel Webster
gross domestic product
devastated
Navigation Acts
40. The desire for goods and services by thoe who have the financial reserves to acqurie them (the amount of sutomers that want to buy something)
technological advances
Cotton Gin
consumer demand
confined
41. Living in a country
rural
labor force
diplomatic relations
government bureaucracy
42. Short speech given by Abrahman Lincoln to dedicate a cemetry for soliders who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is considered a profound statement of American ideals. Four score and seven years ago - our fathers....and that governemtn of the peopl
Gettysburg Adress
Navigation Acts
infected
federalist
43. Leader of the Federalist - first Treasurer of the US creator of the Bank of the U.S. killed in a duel by the Vice President of the US Aaron Burr
federalism
Alexander Hamilton
geographical
Gettysburg Adress
44. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
Seperation of Powers
President Thomas Jefferson
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
The Declaration of Independence
45. Having to do with business
unalienable right
absolute monarch
separation of powers
commercial
46. 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
theocracy
Civil War
Federalist Papers
King George III
47. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Northwest Ordiance
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Tea Act
labor force
48. Living in a city
urban
federalist
First shot of Civil War
Proclamation of 1763
49. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
tariff
gross domestic product
antifederalist
50. Compliantes againsts a person or state
grievance
draft
The Constitution of the United States
prohibited