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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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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. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
democratic republic
Mexican Cession
geographical
Conord Massachusetts
2. Having to do with business
standard of living
Battle of Gettysburg
commercial
Bessemer Process
3. Important; of consequence
significant
ninth amendment
treason
ratify
4. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
unalienable right
technological advances
export
Battle of Saratoga
5. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Susan B Anothony
crossroads
Proclamation of 1763
nullification
6. To be compeletly destroyed
Northwest Ordiance
landlocked
per capita income
devastated
7. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
turmoil
ratify
federalism
free enterprise economy
8. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
cultivation
federalism
textile
Gettysburg Adress
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
Bessemer Process
mercantilism
Battle of Gettysburg
free enterprise economy
10. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
theocracy
population growth
William Lloyd Garrison
prohibited
11. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
draft
Civil War
route
primary sources
12. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Tenth Amedment
Susan B Anothony
significant
Appomattox Curt House
13. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
population density
technological advances
ratify
finalcial resources
14. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
provisions
Bill of Rights
Battle of Gettysburg
theocracy
15. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
free enterprise
migration
Ulysses S grant
Tea Act
16. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
James Madison
resolution
Navigation Acts
diversity
17. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
Cotton Gin
popular soverignty
commader
treason
18. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
nullification
provisions
Tea Act
finalcial resources
19. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
James Monroe
federalism
cottage industry
ninth amendment
20. Improtant points in an event
Cotton Gin
milestones
suffrage
significant
21. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Thomas Jefferson
democratic republic
Civil War
Steamboat
22. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Harriet Tubman
crossroads
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
second amendment
23. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
draft
Conord Massachusetts
federalism
free enterprise economy
24. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
state's rights
Judicial Review
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Impeach
25. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
economic status
The Constitution of the United States
Mexican Cession
life expectancy
26. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
infectious disease
Civil War
foreign policy
relevant
27. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
Bessemer Process
Daniel Webster
significant
gross domestic product
28. 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)
consumer demand
raw materials
Battle of Gettysburg
magna carta
29. Original records of an event - they incldue eyewitness reports created at the time of an event speeches - and letters by people involved in the event - photographs and artifacts
Patrick Henry
antifederalist
primary sources
diplomatic relations
30. Women's rights organizer
nullification
federalist
draft
Susan B Anothony
31. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
diversity
technological advances
ratify
James Madison
32. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
confined
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
33. Means to improve by vote
urban
population density
ratify
End of the American Revolution
34. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Steel Plow
federal
First shot of Civil War
labor force
35. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
Patrick Henry
federalism
End of the American Revolution
36. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
accusations
William Lloyd Garrison
King George III
Bill of Rights
37. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
unalienable right
efficiency
state's rights
Gettysburg Adress
38. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
standard of living
provisions
command economy
39. Having to do with clothing
John C. Calhoun
sixth amendment
textile
Samuel Adams
40. 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
diplomatic relations
treason
Ulysses S grant
Gibbons vs. Ogden
41. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Steel Plow
Gettysburg Adress
possessions
Jamestown
42. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
Telegraph
government bureaucracy
cottage industry
tariff
43. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
magna carta
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Appomattox Curt House
Common Sense
44. Widespread hunger within a given region
limited government
popular culture 'pop culture'
third amendment
famine
45. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
Daniel Webster
geographical
possessions
distribution
46. Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts
Jamestown
Emancipation Proclamations
population growth
47. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Seperation of Powers
free enterprise economy
resolution
Treaty of Paris of 1763
48. To change
adjacent
amend
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglas
49. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
Telegraph
theocracy
distribution
second amendment
50. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
abolition
John C. Calhoun
rural
birthrate