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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. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
first amendment
second amendment
theocracy
Gibbons vs. Ogden
2. Eli Whitney
raw materials
Interchangeable Parts
federal
urban
3. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
King George III
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Davis
confined
4. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
benjamin franklin
Northwest Ordiance
censorship
possessions
5. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
literacy rate
nullify
James Monroe
command economy
6. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
foreign policy
Democracy
subsistence economy
infectious disease
7. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Cotton Gin
Samuel Adams
Daniel Webster
Steel Plow
8. Changing iron into steal
Bessemer Process
accusations
Steamboat
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
9. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
Andrew Jackson
democratic republic
prohibited
The Great Compromise
10. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
first amendment
Alexander Hamilton
John C. Calhoun
magna carta
11. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
mercantilism
Cotton Gin
Proclamation of 1763
consumer demand
12. Relationships that exsits between governments
Abraham Lincoln
diplomatic relations
limited government
Civil War
13. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
Cotton Gin
Battle of Gettysburg
nullification
The first shots of the American Revolution
14. 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)
James Monroe
Ulysses S grant
separation of powers
unalienable right
15. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Frederick Douglas
Reaper
standard of living
technological advances
16. 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
standard of living
suffrage
limited government
mercantilism
17. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
distribution
federalism
finalcial resources
second amendment
18. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
standard of living
population growth
militia
Common Sense
19. Living in a country
rural
urban
raw materials
John C. Calhoun
20. Is a cruel and unjust government
tyranny
Tenth Amedment
secondary sources
technological advances
21. 'Father of the Constitution'
James Madison
treason
infected
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
22. 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.
Mayflower Compact
Telegraph
Judicial Review
Farewell Address
23. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Thomas Jefferson
tariff
Frederick Douglas
Steamboat
24. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullification
Patrick Henry
prohibited
nullify
25. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
Thirteenth Amendment
crossroads
Navigation Acts
confined
26. The state of acting according to law; lawful
population growth
legitmacy
migration
federalist
27. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
autocracy
consumer demand
treason
cultivation
28. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
provisions
sixth amendment
Proclamation of 1763
Susan B Anothony
29. Important to a certain event or topic
significant
secondary sources
Fourteenth Amendment
Federalist Papers
30. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
subsistence economy
population boom
devastated
free enterprise economy
31. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
abolition
population boom
distribution
significant
32. Improtant points in an event
abolition
milestones
Impeach
diplomatic relations
33. 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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34. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
civil disobedience
democratic republic
population growth
commader
35. 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.
nullify
efficiency
sixth amendment
harsh
36. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Interchangeable Parts
Emancipation Proclamations
significant
Samuel Adams
37. Compliantes againsts a person or state
birthrate
grievance
President Thomas Jefferson
primary sources
38. Realting to an event
livstock
command economy
Alexander Hamilton
relevant
39. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
primary sources
diversity
famine
commader
40. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
treason
harsh
resolution
William Lloyd Garrison
41. 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
absolute monarch
population growth
Gibbons vs. Ogden
sixth amendment
42. A point at which an important decision must be made
crossroads
Fifteenth Amendment
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
confined
43. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
Susan B Anothony
accusations
Fourteenth Amendment
Civil War
44. To obtain or receive
population density
acquire
amend
Northwest Ordiance
45. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
free enterprise
Impeach
command economy
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
46. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Fifteenth Amendment
government bureaucracy
Jamestown
infectious disease
47. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
standard of living
treason
The Declaration of Independence
literacy rate
48. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
free enterprise economy
life expectancy
Jamestown
49. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
urban
first amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
prospertiy
50. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
Mexican Cession
foreign policy
draft
resolution