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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. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
per capita income
rural
nullify
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
2. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
third amendment
government bureaucracy
nullification
Gettysburg Adress
3. John Deere
infected
Steel Plow
subsistence economy
John C. Calhoun
4. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
Fifteenth Amendment
route
John C. Calhoun
checks and balances
5. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
commercial
crossroads
subsistence economy
Seperation of Powers
6. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
William Lloyd Garrison
second amendment
harsh
currency
7. The right to vote
suffrage
theocracy
life expectancy
Tea Act
8. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
censorship
treason
ratify
9. Next to or beside
significant
James Monroe
adjacent
economic status
10. Samuel Morse
Reaper
milestones
Telegraph
standard of living
11. Having to do with clothing
The Declaration of Independence
landlocked
textile
tyranny
12. Improtant points in an event
government bureaucracy
checks and balances
population boom
milestones
13. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
Henry Clay
militia
adjacent
14. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
civil disobedience
diversity
livstock
Farewell Address
15. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
Battle of Saratoga
Frederick Douglas
Thomas Jefferson
route
16. Not allowed
prohibited
tyranny
Frederick Douglas
Battle of Saratoga
17. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
Battle of Gettysburg
distribution
limited government
market economy
18. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
livstock
antifederalist
Tea Act
birthrate
19. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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20. 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
distribution
Cotton Gin
Marbury vs. Madison
currency
21. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
export
Emancipation Proclamations
Bessemer Process
Interchangeable Parts
22. 'Father of the Constitution'
Henry Clay
James Madison
state's rights
resolution
23. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
milestones
Frederick Douglas
currency
legitmacy
24. Moving from one place to antoher
Navigation Acts
confined
currency
migration
25. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Seperation of Powers
amendment
Frederick Douglas
Daniel Webster
26. Women's rights organizer
diplomatic relations
Susan B Anothony
Thomas Jefferson
sixth amendment
27. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
popular culture 'pop culture'
possessions
legitmacy
Farewell Address
28. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
James Monroe
milestones
Conord Massachusetts
King George III
29. Things that you own
devastated
William Lloyd Garrison
Bessemer Process
possessions
30. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Gibbons vs. Ogden
The Constitution of the United States
Mexican Cession
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
31. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
diversity
Navigation Acts
William Lloyd Garrison
32. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
accusations
harsh
provisions
cultivation
33. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Tea Act
Common Sense
Henry Clay
commercial
34. Means to improve by vote
ratify
amendment
literacy rate
federalism
35. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
mercantilism
free enterprise
per capita income
36. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
free enterprise
Abraham Lincoln
separation of powers
third amendment
37. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
textile
benjamin franklin
export
amendment
38. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
textile
theocracy
commader
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
39. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
significant
per capita income
route
distribution
40. The british defeat at Yorktown - Virgina by George Washingtown's troops singaled the end of the american revolution. accepted the surrrender of the main british army under Cronwallis
End of the American Revolution
Mayflower Compact
abolition
export
41. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Mexican Cession
federalist
raw materials
export
42. 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
The first shots of the American Revolution
consumer demand
currency
Gibbons vs. Ogden
43. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
diversity
The first shots of the American Revolution
separation of powers
legitmacy
44. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Thomas Jefferson
autocracy
significant
unalienable right
45. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
Fourteenth Amendment
landlocked
federalist
Daniel Webster
46. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
federalism
geographical
Steel Plow
Fifteenth Amendment
47. 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
turmoil
James Madison
migration
48. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
technological advances
theocracy
primary sources
Interchangeable Parts
49. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
Bessemer Process
Henry Clay
turmoil
efficiency
50. Robert Fulton
acquire
grievance
amendment
Steamboat