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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
absolute monarch
Alexander Hamilton
livstock
free enterprise
2. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
draft
Seperation of Powers
cottage industry
labor force
3. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
The first shots of the American Revolution
theocracy
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Abraham Lincoln
4. Improtant points in an event
suffrage
turmoil
milestones
Samuel Adams
5. 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
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Gibbons vs. Ogden
secede
birthrate
6. Compliantes againsts a person or state
grievance
Susan B Anothony
Appomattox Curt House
John C. Calhoun
7. The supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted on September 17 - 1787 - by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - and later ratified by conventions in each state in the name of 'the People';
Thirteenth Amendment
The Constitution of the United States
foreign policy
Alexander Hamilton
8. Living in a city
urban
Marbury vs. Madison
King George III
foreign policy
9. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
antifederalist
Steamboat
export
free enterprise
10. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
infectious disease
state's rights
efficiency
Daniel Webster
11. Important; of consequence
grievance
significant
prohibited
federalism
12. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Judicial Review
treason
Steamboat
Emancipation Proclamations
13. An agreement singed in 1620 b the Pilgrims in Playmouth - to consult each other baout laws for the colony and a promise to work together to make it succeed. Postive step towards self - rule.
Ulysses S grant
Mayflower Compact
The Great Compromise
accusations
14. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
antifederalist
government bureaucracy
Samuel Adams
15. Relationships that exsits between governments
diplomatic relations
Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution of the United States
significant
16. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
raw materials
economic status
Telegraph
legitmacy
17. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
Conord Massachusetts
The Declaration of Independence
population growth
ratify
18. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
first amendment
separation of powers
labor force
federalist
19. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
raw materials
Judicial Review
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
20. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
William Lloyd Garrison
population boom
per capita income
Robert E. Lee
21. The right to vote
benjamin franklin
standard of living
suffrage
democratic republic
22. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
crossroads
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
command economy
sixth amendment
23. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
urban
theocracy
significant
tariff
24. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Bill of Rights
Gettysburg Adress
prospertiy
abolition
25. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
suffrage
Andrew Jackson
labor force
literacy rate
26. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
Steamboat
limited government
absolute monarch
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
27. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
migration
Democracy
harsh
Cotton Gin
28. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
Bessemer Process
cottage industry
significant
prospertiy
29. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
civil disobedience
devastated
prospertiy
milestones
30. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
secede
The Great Compromise
Common Sense
benjamin franklin
31. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Samuel Adams
autocracy
The Declaration of Independence
Ulysses S grant
32. 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
Bessemer Process
civil disobedience
primary sources
Judicial Review
33. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
crossroads
militia
famine
subsistence economy
34. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
absolute monarch
antifederalist
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
direct representation
35. A point at which an important decision must be made
The Constitution of the United States
crossroads
harsh
amendment
36. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
life expectancy
Navigation Acts
gross domestic product
militia
37. To change
Mexican Cession
amend
Fourteenth Amendment
raw materials
38. Having to do with clothing
federalism
Daniel Webster
urban
textile
39. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Alexander Hamilton
labor force
40. Women's rights organizer
federalism
Susan B Anothony
confined
James Madison
41. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Battle of Saratoga
commader
limited government
Seperation of Powers
42. 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
resolution
federalism
Gettysburg Adress
The Declaration of Independence
43. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
autocracy
possessions
Jamestown
Civil War
44. The state of acting according to law; lawful
free enterprise
James Madison
legitmacy
popular culture 'pop culture'
45. Leader of the Federalist - first Treasurer of the US creator of the Bank of the U.S. killed in a duel by the Vice President of the US Aaron Burr
mercantilism
turmoil
checks and balances
Alexander Hamilton
46. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
First shot of Civil War
magna carta
raw materials
free enterprise economy
47. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
draft
possessions
Civil War
Democracy
48. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
landlocked
censorship
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Patrick Henry
49. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
second amendment
Battle of Saratoga
free enterprise economy
technological advances
50. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
Impeach
third amendment
Battle of Saratoga
Jefferson Davis
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