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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. Women's rights organizer
Susan B Anothony
The Declaration of Independence
route
Ulysses S grant
2. 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
Federalist Papers
theocracy
economic status
diversity
3. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
currency
significant
separation of powers
4. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
5. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Conord Massachusetts
suffrage
adjacent
secondary sources
6. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Frederick Douglas
Battle of Gettysburg
federalism
antifederalist
7. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
The Declaration of Independence
landlocked
Mayflower Compact
textile
8. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
cultivation
gross domestic product
finalcial resources
federalism
9. Living in a country
rural
Gibbons vs. Ogden
censorship
Appomattox Curt House
10. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Impeach
Appomattox Curt House
Treaty of Paris of 1763
President Thomas Jefferson
11. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Steel Plow
Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
tariff
12. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
ratify
Steamboat
Thomas Jefferson
market economy
13. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
milestones
absolute monarch
censorship
federal
14. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Civil War
diversity
sixth amendment
The Great Compromise
15. Is a cruel and unjust government
tyranny
harsh
King George III
separation of powers
16. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
unalienable right
confined
commader
technological advances
17. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
James Madison
autocracy
economic status
harsh
18. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
Jamestown
diversity
route
livstock
19. To obtain or receive
livstock
primary sources
Andrew Jackson
acquire
20. Abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
adjacent
popular culture 'pop culture'
textile
21. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
subsistence economy
Thomas Jefferson
command economy
Civil War
22. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
state's rights
free enterprise economy
Interchangeable Parts
life expectancy
23. Having to do with clothing
Impeach
textile
standard of living
federalism
24. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
benjamin franklin
democratic republic
The first shots of the American Revolution
migration
25. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
cottage industry
command economy
Mexican Cession
draft
26. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
command economy
Marbury vs. Madison
Appomattox Curt House
crossroads
27. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
consumer demand
separation of powers
accusations
cottage industry
28. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
mercantilism
Alexander Hamilton
devastated
Henry Clay
29. To change
prohibited
amend
popular culture 'pop culture'
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
30. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
diversity
birthrate
labor force
Harriet Tubman
31. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
nullify
geographical
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
amendment
32. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
Fifteenth Amendment
accusations
civil disobedience
cottage industry
33. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
primary sources
democratic republic
second amendment
infectious disease
34. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
confined
amendment
popular soverignty
Bessemer Process
35. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Bessemer Process
Fourteenth Amendment
raw materials
secede
36. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
magna carta
provisions
Jamestown
Mexican Cession
37. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
sixth amendment
efficiency
Proclamation of 1763
Harriet Tubman
38. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Mexican Cession
population boom
Gettysburg Adress
ninth amendment
39. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
Jamestown
route
market economy
Gettysburg Adress
40. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
Bessemer Process
direct representation
draft
diplomatic relations
41. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
per capita income
benjamin franklin
James Monroe
diplomatic relations
42. General of the confederate army
The Declaration of Independence
Robert E. Lee
command economy
Tea Act
43. 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
primary sources
cottage industry
civil disobedience
tyranny
44. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
Farewell Address
Susan B Anothony
tariff
45. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Proclamation of 1763
Susan B Anothony
Ulysses S grant
Fifteenth Amendment
46. 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
secede
Andrew Jackson
adjacent
mercantilism
47. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
population boom
geographical
nullification
relevant
48. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Samuel Adams
commader
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
per capita income
49. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
The Declaration of Independence
militia
Tea Act
50. 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)
unalienable right
autocracy
End of the American Revolution
Bessemer Process