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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. Samuel Morse
secede
popular soverignty
theocracy
Telegraph
2. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
export
efficiency
sixth amendment
legitmacy
3. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
benjamin franklin
sixth amendment
Bessemer Process
John C. Calhoun
4. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Seperation of Powers
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Battle of Saratoga
Bessemer Process
5. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
export
free enterprise economy
federalist
per capita income
6. Eli Whitney
Conord Massachusetts
William Lloyd Garrison
Interchangeable Parts
Battle of Gettysburg
7. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
censorship
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
abolition
population density
8. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
migration
Northwest Ordiance
free enterprise
devastated
9. General of the confederate army
Robert E. Lee
James Madison
Thirteenth Amendment
standard of living
10. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
Fifteenth Amendment
abolition
James Madison
popular soverignty
11. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
amend
Proclamation of 1763
John C. Calhoun
per capita income
12. 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
state's rights
mercantilism
Harriet Tubman
life expectancy
13. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
subsistence economy
crossroads
market economy
first amendment
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)
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
theocracy
primary sources
unalienable right
15. To withdraw or pull away
secede
route
Samuel Adams
militia
16. 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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17. 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.'
James Madison
significant
Patrick Henry
Robert E. Lee
18. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
democratic republic
Robert E. Lee
President Thomas Jefferson
per capita income
19. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Common Sense
The Great Compromise
command economy
Robert E. Lee
20. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
unalienable right
federalist
Thomas Jefferson
Federalist Papers
21. The right to vote
suffrage
Robert E. Lee
subsistence economy
Daniel Webster
22. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
efficiency
Jefferson Davis
legitmacy
livstock
23. Women's rights organizer
Common Sense
textile
Susan B Anothony
unalienable right
24. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Henry Clay
Appomattox Curt House
landlocked
25. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
second amendment
possessions
Cotton Gin
government bureaucracy
26. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
milestones
absolute monarch
antifederalist
Reaper
27. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
Abraham Lincoln
benjamin franklin
federal
currency
28. Living in a city
draft
urban
Samuel Adams
population growth
29. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
technological advances
Fifteenth Amendment
textile
30. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Abraham Lincoln
population boom
abolition
Steamboat
31. Established a system of setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the UNion. its consitution had to provide for a representative governemnt and ithad to prohibit slavery
secondary sources
Northwest Ordiance
Mexican Cession
Cotton Gin
32. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
accusations
economic status
Navigation Acts
Jefferson Davis
33. Relationships that exsits between governments
abolition
Bessemer Process
diplomatic relations
possessions
34. 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
Proclamation of 1763
Treaty of Paris of 1763
William Lloyd Garrison
Ulysses S grant
35. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
legitmacy
The Constitution of the United States
Civil War
autocracy
36. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
birthrate
The Great Compromise
Interchangeable Parts
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
37. Series of essays written by James Madison - John Jay - Alexander Hamilton - defending the Consituion and the principles on which the government of the United States was founded
diplomatic relations
Henry Clay
Federalist Papers
labor force
38. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
cottage industry
third amendment
antifederalist
accusations
39. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
militia
Navigation Acts
geographical
popular soverignty
40. Realting to an event
relevant
unalienable right
finalcial resources
Daniel Webster
41. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
third amendment
Seperation of Powers
command economy
Proclamation of 1763
42. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
ninth amendment
Conord Massachusetts
Fourteenth Amendment
infectious disease
43. Not allowed
prohibited
Gettysburg Adress
Proclamation of 1763
checks and balances
44. 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)
consumer demand
Navigation Acts
limited government
mercantilism
45. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
sixth amendment
separation of powers
literacy rate
migration
46. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
per capita income
civil disobedience
adjacent
free enterprise
47. Widespread hunger within a given region
famine
unalienable right
John C. Calhoun
Telegraph
48. 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
Common Sense
famine
Marbury vs. Madison
49. 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
Tenth Amedment
Cotton Gin
infectious disease
End of the American Revolution
50. Things that you own
possessions
abolition
Northwest Ordiance
magna carta