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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Impeach
milestones
Jamestown
Fourteenth Amendment
2. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
democratic republic
Appomattox Curt House
rural
possessions
3. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
Fifteenth Amendment
federalism
provisions
Cotton Gin
4. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
militia
Federalist Papers
efficiency
The Declaration of Independence
5. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
Judicial Review
checks and balances
foreign policy
market economy
6. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
second amendment
William Lloyd Garrison
migration
consumer demand
7. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
literacy rate
population boom
second amendment
urban
8. Passionate patriot who became fomous for his fiery speeches in favor of American Independence his most famous quote included the worlds 'give me liberty or give me Death.'
magna carta
unalienable right
Patrick Henry
End of the American Revolution
9. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
militia
antifederalist
Democracy
Interchangeable Parts
10. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
Fourteenth Amendment
nullify
gross domestic product
President Thomas Jefferson
11. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Cotton Gin
prospertiy
magna carta
separation of powers
12. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
Interchangeable Parts
secondary sources
subsistence economy
Samuel Adams
13. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
Tea Act
civil disobedience
Emancipation Proclamations
currency
14. To change
secondary sources
tyranny
foreign policy
amend
15. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
livstock
Gibbons vs. Ogden
diversity
harsh
16. Next to or beside
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S grant
adjacent
nullification
17. 'Father of the Constitution'
James Madison
Appomattox Curt House
urban
Interchangeable Parts
18. The 1803 Court decision that gave the Supreme Court the right to determine whether a law violates the Constituion it set up the principle of Judical Review
Marbury vs. Madison
commercial
efficiency
provisions
19. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
literacy rate
Federalist Papers
population density
suffrage
20. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
Tenth Amedment
absolute monarch
Daniel Webster
Farewell Address
21. Established a system of setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the UNion. its consitution had to provide for a representative governemnt and ithad to prohibit slavery
Northwest Ordiance
Gettysburg Adress
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thirteenth Amendment
22. Righst that you can not surrender - sell or transer. they are a gift from the creator to the individual and can not under any circumstatnces be srurredned or taken (life - liberty - happiness)
John C. Calhoun
popular culture 'pop culture'
commercial
unalienable right
23. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
secede
infectious disease
population boom
Harriet Tubman
24. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
Interchangeable Parts
free enterprise
mercantilism
Jamestown
25. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
diplomatic relations
ninth amendment
President Thomas Jefferson
relevant
26. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Federalist Papers
textile
Fourteenth Amendment
treason
27. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
cultivation
Susan B Anothony
federalism
Appomattox Curt House
28. Robert Fulton
per capita income
federalist
Steamboat
Gettysburg Adress
29. Changing iron into steal
Bessemer Process
Federalist Papers
Emancipation Proclamations
Marbury vs. Madison
30. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
legitmacy
checks and balances
Jamestown
Frederick Douglas
31. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
End of the American Revolution
turmoil
32. Relationships that exsits between governments
export
primary sources
autocracy
diplomatic relations
33. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
checks and balances
Henry Clay
democratic republic
Tenth Amedment
34. Women's rights organizer
nullification
second amendment
Federalist Papers
Susan B Anothony
35. Important; of consequence
cultivation
gross domestic product
significant
Northwest Ordiance
36. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Gettysburg Adress
literacy rate
Democracy
Patrick Henry
37. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Emancipation Proclamations
Gibbons vs. Ogden
secondary sources
per capita income
38. 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
literacy rate
autocracy
prospertiy
mercantilism
39. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Fifteenth Amendment
Mexican Cession
Daniel Webster
raw materials
40. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
population growth
tariff
Daniel Webster
41. Widespread hunger within a given region
Gettysburg Adress
Mayflower Compact
Battle of Saratoga
famine
42. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Northwest Ordiance
Jefferson Davis
economic status
consumer demand
43. Means to improve by vote
ratify
Telegraph
benjamin franklin
Democracy
44. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Farewell Address
tariff
diplomatic relations
Democracy
45. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Democracy
popular culture 'pop culture'
censorship
Abraham Lincoln
46. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
economic status
absolute monarch
King George III
autocracy
47. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Conord Massachusetts
cultivation
labor force
prohibited
48. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
President Thomas Jefferson
Conord Massachusetts
Gettysburg Adress
geographical
49. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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50. John Deere
crossroads
Steel Plow
Tenth Amedment
provisions
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