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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. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Impeach
rural
Bill of Rights
Civil War
2. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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3. Realting to an event
Susan B Anothony
devastated
draft
relevant
4. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
prospertiy
cultivation
rural
diversity
5. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
devastated
milestones
federalism
Treaty of Paris of 1763
6. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
third amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Cotton Gin
route
7. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
Northwest Ordiance
checks and balances
diversity
Daniel Webster
8. General of the confederate army
route
Robert E. Lee
theocracy
grievance
9. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
cottage industry
Bill of Rights
resolution
separation of powers
10. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Gibbons vs. Ogden
labor force
draft
Tenth Amedment
11. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
Impeach
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
famine
geographical
12. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
draft
provisions
Steel Plow
federalism
13. Having to do with business
population boom
textile
commercial
Andrew Jackson
14. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
possessions
censorship
benjamin franklin
acquire
15. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
Jefferson Davis
Andrew Jackson
treason
popular soverignty
16. Is a cruel and unjust government
tyranny
End of the American Revolution
primary sources
finalcial resources
17. Abolished slavery
Jamestown
popular culture 'pop culture'
Thirteenth Amendment
Susan B Anothony
18. Things that you own
Treaty of Paris of 1763
unalienable right
birthrate
possessions
19. Eli Whitney
Susan B Anothony
Interchangeable Parts
censorship
harsh
20. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
treason
popular soverignty
efficiency
geographical
21. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
standard of living
King George III
textile
censorship
22. Next to or beside
adjacent
second amendment
free enterprise economy
prospertiy
23. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
suffrage
possessions
gross domestic product
Mexican Cession
24. Passionate patriot who became fomous for his fiery speeches in favor of American Independence his most famous quote included the worlds 'give me liberty or give me Death.'
civil disobedience
Northwest Ordiance
federalism
Patrick Henry
25. 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
The Great Compromise
Marbury vs. Madison
milestones
Jamestown
26. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
market economy
livstock
devastated
theocracy
27. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
raw materials
export
secondary sources
federalism
28. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
End of the American Revolution
Jefferson Davis
third amendment
population growth
29. 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
famine
ratify
economic status
30. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
separation of powers
route
secondary sources
tyranny
31. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
federalism
militia
benjamin franklin
separation of powers
32. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
William Lloyd Garrison
population boom
King George III
civil disobedience
33. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
legitmacy
End of the American Revolution
harsh
livstock
34. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
currency
prohibited
finalcial resources
route
35. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
suffrage
Impeach
migration
Tenth Amedment
36. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
mercantilism
commercial
route
infectious disease
37. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
magna carta
Ulysses S grant
free enterprise
Fourteenth Amendment
38. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
raw materials
Farewell Address
Fourteenth Amendment
39. The right to vote
suffrage
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
command economy
distribution
40. Compliantes againsts a person or state
Mayflower Compact
grievance
First shot of Civil War
Henry Clay
41. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
King George III
direct representation
birthrate
benjamin franklin
42. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Tea Act
life expectancy
labor force
civil disobedience
43. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
Bill of Rights
foreign policy
The first shots of the American Revolution
turmoil
44. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
labor force
per capita income
Fourteenth Amendment
The Great Compromise
45. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
nullification
adjacent
Henry Clay
magna carta
46. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
population density
raw materials
free enterprise economy
Reaper
47. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
President Thomas Jefferson
resolution
Jefferson Davis
Harriet Tubman
48. 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)
provisions
consumer demand
population density
Treaty of Paris of 1763
49. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
first amendment
birthrate
Proclamation of 1763
Gibbons vs. Ogden
50. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
significant
secondary sources
Gettysburg Adress
Farewell Address