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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
population boom
nullify
secondary sources
Gibbons vs. Ogden
2. 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
resolution
Federalist Papers
consumer demand
Northwest Ordiance
3. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Emancipation Proclamations
crossroads
Battle of Gettysburg
censorship
4. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
raw materials
federalist
unalienable right
Patrick Henry
5. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Appomattox Curt House
textile
significant
The first shots of the American Revolution
6. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
federalist
adjacent
milestones
Tea Act
7. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
absolute monarch
Thirteenth Amendment
harsh
legitmacy
8. The state of acting according to law; lawful
Henry Clay
labor force
legitmacy
distribution
9. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Fifteenth Amendment
first amendment
The first shots of the American Revolution
Seperation of Powers
10. 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
third amendment
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
free enterprise economy
11. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
birthrate
legitmacy
Daniel Webster
Northwest Ordiance
12. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
civil disobedience
First shot of Civil War
nullify
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
13. Abolished slavery
Ulysses S grant
standard of living
Thirteenth Amendment
resolution
14. Realting to an event
landlocked
Mexican Cession
route
relevant
15. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
gross domestic product
per capita income
Proclamation of 1763
life expectancy
16. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Thomas Jefferson
legitmacy
consumer demand
Samuel Adams
17. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
federal
nullification
Cotton Gin
finalcial resources
18. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
migration
Harriet Tubman
birthrate
distribution
19. Moving from one place to antoher
Daniel Webster
migration
secondary sources
commercial
20. General of the confederate army
suffrage
Bessemer Process
Robert E. Lee
consumer demand
21. 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
draft
prohibited
Fourteenth Amendment
22. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
harsh
Alexander Hamilton
amendment
benjamin franklin
23. Stated that - 'no state..can lawfully get out of the Union..' bt pledged there would be no war unless the South started it - was ment to hlep heal and resore the country after four years of the Civil War
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24. The right to vote
popular soverignty
free enterprise
suffrage
subsistence economy
25. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
first amendment
Impeach
relevant
migration
26. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Alexander Hamilton
The Great Compromise
state's rights
gross domestic product
27. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
technological advances
federal
28. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
population boom
militia
market economy
29. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Abraham Lincoln
milestones
First shot of Civil War
absolute monarch
30. Eli Whitney
Robert E. Lee
Reaper
Interchangeable Parts
relevant
31. Living in a country
Gibbons vs. Ogden
technological advances
accusations
rural
32. To contaminate or corup
abolition
Proclamation of 1763
accusations
infected
33. Ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America; ended the American Revolution and foreced Britian to recginze the United States as an idependent Nations
finalcial resources
Treaty of Paris of 1763
prospertiy
third amendment
34. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
checks and balances
technological advances
35. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Tenth Amedment
Abraham Lincoln
Proclamation of 1763
Emancipation Proclamations
36. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
William Lloyd Garrison
labor force
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
accusations
37. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Reaper
relevant
adjacent
devastated
38. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
population density
democratic republic
Susan B Anothony
Appomattox Curt House
39. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Jamestown
population density
gross domestic product
draft
40. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
federalism
currency
technological advances
Navigation Acts
41. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
economic status
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglas
foreign policy
42. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
technological advances
James Monroe
ninth amendment
government bureaucracy
43. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
Conord Massachusetts
resolution
confined
standard of living
44. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Judicial Review
Conord Massachusetts
antifederalist
nullify
45. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
Jamestown
gross domestic product
federalism
devastated
46. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
militia
currency
export
harsh
47. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
subsistence economy
tyranny
The Great Compromise
Gibbons vs. Ogden
48. The constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to counsel - the right to confront witnesses - and the right to a speedy and public trial.
magna carta
technological advances
Susan B Anothony
sixth amendment
49. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
life expectancy
standard of living
Steel Plow
Common Sense
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)
magna carta
Democracy
unalienable right
Abraham Lincoln
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