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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. Changing iron into steal
Bessemer Process
tariff
third amendment
Abraham Lincoln
2. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
3. 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
4. John Deere
landlocked
acquire
Steel Plow
limited government
5. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
nullification
prospertiy
direct representation
Marbury vs. Madison
6. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
mercantilism
The first shots of the American Revolution
magna carta
First shot of Civil War
7. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
population density
third amendment
population boom
nullification
8. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
possessions
provisions
life expectancy
commader
9. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
ratify
milestones
market economy
Thomas Jefferson
10. Moving from one place to antoher
gross domestic product
Seperation of Powers
Patrick Henry
migration
11. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
adjacent
Tea Act
popular soverignty
Thomas Jefferson
12. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Seperation of Powers
raw materials
Harriet Tubman
Emancipation Proclamations
13. 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';
Samuel Adams
population density
limited government
The Constitution of the United States
14. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
crossroads
gross domestic product
Alexander Hamilton
absolute monarch
15. The state of acting according to law; lawful
federalism
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
acquire
legitmacy
16. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
population growth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
currency
secede
17. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Navigation Acts
Thirteenth Amendment
literacy rate
The Declaration of Independence
18. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
federalism
Bill of Rights
William Lloyd Garrison
government bureaucracy
19. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
efficiency
state's rights
secondary sources
secede
20. 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
Alexander Hamilton
federalism
rural
Navigation Acts
21. Means to improve by vote
ninth amendment
Frederick Douglas
ratify
commercial
22. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
gross domestic product
resolution
antifederalist
turmoil
23. A point at which an important decision must be made
militia
efficiency
crossroads
provisions
24. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Alexander Hamilton
raw materials
tariff
standard of living
25. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
distribution
Samuel Adams
democratic republic
subsistence economy
26. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
economic status
turmoil
significant
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
27. General of the confederate army
government bureaucracy
Fifteenth Amendment
The Constitution of the United States
Robert E. Lee
28. Women's rights organizer
significant
Harriet Tubman
direct representation
Susan B Anothony
29. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
cottage industry
Civil War
Reaper
accusations
30. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
economic status
separation of powers
John C. Calhoun
primary sources
31. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Mexican Cession
infectious disease
famine
landlocked
32. 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
amendment
acquire
Treaty of Paris of 1763
diplomatic relations
33. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
direct representation
famine
second amendment
34. Not allowed
devastated
Reaper
prohibited
Susan B Anothony
35. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
resolution
landlocked
Robert E. Lee
unalienable right
36. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
technological advances
prohibited
The Great Compromise
benjamin franklin
37. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
The Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris of 1763
limited government
Northwest Ordiance
38. Robert Fulton
Harriet Tubman
Steamboat
infectious disease
First shot of Civil War
39. To obtain or receive
Conord Massachusetts
suffrage
Common Sense
acquire
40. 'Father of the Constitution'
James Madison
Democracy
Proclamation of 1763
literacy rate
41. 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)
Treaty of Paris of 1763
acquire
consumer demand
Gibbons vs. Ogden
42. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
consumer demand
per capita income
migration
currency
43. 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
Thomas Jefferson
End of the American Revolution
popular culture 'pop culture'
landlocked
44. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
resolution
prospertiy
Bessemer Process
gross domestic product
45. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
efficiency
landlocked
government bureaucracy
adjacent
46. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
The first shots of the American Revolution
Jefferson Davis
Battle of Saratoga
47. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
draft
direct representation
Seperation of Powers
popular culture 'pop culture'
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.
sixth amendment
Seperation of Powers
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Common Sense
49. 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)
livstock
unalienable right
significant
grievance
50. Economic theory that a country's strength is measured by the amount of gold it has that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the the Mother Country
mercantilism
first amendment
grievance
geographical