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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
relevant
provisions
milestones
Gibbons vs. Ogden
2. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
command economy
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
acquire
Thirteenth Amendment
3. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
Thomas Jefferson
infectious disease
Samuel Adams
population density
4. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Civil War
provisions
relevant
Fourteenth Amendment
5. To withdraw or pull away
primary sources
famine
Tenth Amedment
secede
6. The state of acting according to law; lawful
Federalist Papers
significant
free enterprise
legitmacy
7. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
limited government
population growth
tyranny
8. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
foreign policy
benjamin franklin
Frederick Douglas
censorship
9. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
The Constitution of the United States
Ulysses S grant
Farewell Address
autocracy
10. A point at which an important decision must be made
famine
crossroads
primary sources
Steel Plow
11. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
Robert E. Lee
nullify
turmoil
Federalist Papers
12. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
amendment
population growth
censorship
John C. Calhoun
13. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Battle of Saratoga
Emancipation Proclamations
civil disobedience
nullify
14. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
possessions
Common Sense
limited government
Proclamation of 1763
15. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
cultivation
Frederick Douglas
popular soverignty
state's rights
16. Having to do with business
amendment
commercial
acquire
federalism
17. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
Daniel Webster
state's rights
export
first amendment
18. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
acquire
consumer demand
William Lloyd Garrison
second amendment
19. To obtain or receive
acquire
End of the American Revolution
confined
Tea Act
20. Abolished slavery
route
Thirteenth Amendment
infected
literacy rate
21. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
The Constitution of the United States
landlocked
confined
John C. Calhoun
22. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Battle of Saratoga
Northwest Ordiance
direct representation
population boom
23. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Steamboat
magna carta
draft
24. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
export
Farewell Address
Conord Massachusetts
Northwest Ordiance
25. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Samuel Adams
absolute monarch
checks and balances
26. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
finalcial resources
popular soverignty
The Constitution of the United States
currency
27. 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)
Jamestown
consumer demand
amend
democratic republic
28. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
economic status
crossroads
Alexander Hamilton
Jefferson Davis
29. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
possessions
Harriet Tubman
cultivation
prohibited
30. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
livstock
population boom
Jefferson Davis
Proclamation of 1763
31. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
foreign policy
efficiency
Seperation of Powers
James Madison
32. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
turmoil
federalist
livstock
Seperation of Powers
33. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
provisions
secondary sources
Susan B Anothony
per capita income
34. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
efficiency
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Northwest Ordiance
treason
35. Means to improve by vote
Federalist Papers
Ulysses S grant
primary sources
ratify
36. 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)
Frederick Douglas
Judicial Review
unalienable right
William Lloyd Garrison
37. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
benjamin franklin
Battle of Gettysburg
Navigation Acts
federal
38. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
significant
draft
Jamestown
Democracy
39. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
government bureaucracy
landlocked
censorship
Civil War
40. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
third amendment
King George III
federalism
suffrage
41. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Daniel Webster
migration
Telegraph
Steel Plow
42. 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
The first shots of the American Revolution
harsh
End of the American Revolution
resolution
43. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
direct representation
third amendment
federal
Harriet Tubman
44. Is a cruel and unjust government
tyranny
Gibbons vs. Ogden
ratify
Tea Act
45. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
theocracy
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
suffrage
Fourteenth Amendment
46. Samuel Morse
amendment
Telegraph
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
rural
47. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
Ulysses S grant
Gibbons vs. Ogden
diplomatic relations
antifederalist
48. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
confined
direct representation
raw materials
Thirteenth Amendment
49. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Impeach
currency
The Great Compromise
Robert E. Lee
50. Having to do with clothing
subsistence economy
censorship
literacy rate
textile