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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies

Subjects : taks, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union






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






3. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics






4. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery






5. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect






6. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union






7. An act of the Second Continental Congress - adopted on July 4 - 1776 - which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were 'Free and Independent States' and that 'all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain - is a






8. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government






9. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine






10. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition






11. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state






12. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void






13. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)






14. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.






15. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home






16. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals






17. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period






18. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state






19. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government






20. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual






21. Led to the Boston Tea Party






22. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution






23. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government






24. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution






25. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides






26. Improtant points in an event






27. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US






28. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office






29. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism






30. Is a cruel and unjust government






31. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy






32. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets






33. 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






34. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state






35. Living in a city






36. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance






37. To withdraw or pull away






38. Unable to move or with limited space and operate






39. 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






40. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery






41. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel






42. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write






43. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington






44. 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






45. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money






46. 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






47. The right to vote






48. 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)






49. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies






50. To be compeletly destroyed






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