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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. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
diversity
infectious disease
Reaper
separation of powers
2. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Marbury vs. Madison
tariff
cultivation
democratic republic
3. Important; of consequence
state's rights
Susan B Anothony
significant
Steel Plow
4. 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
market economy
Battle of Gettysburg
Interchangeable Parts
mercantilism
5. Things that you own
possessions
Mexican Cession
infected
checks and balances
6. An act of the Second Continental Congress - adopted on July 4 - 1776 - which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were 'Free and Independent States' and that 'all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain - is a
Emancipation Proclamations
standard of living
Andrew Jackson
The Declaration of Independence
7. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
Robert E. Lee
John C. Calhoun
population boom
free enterprise
8. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
significant
benjamin franklin
Telegraph
nullification
9. The state of acting according to law; lawful
confined
infectious disease
legitmacy
Civil War
10. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
checks and balances
The Constitution of the United States
per capita income
Robert E. Lee
11. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Abraham Lincoln
resolution
Appomattox Curt House
Emancipation Proclamations
12. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
Seperation of Powers
Battle of Saratoga
first amendment
checks and balances
13. Widespread hunger within a given region
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
famine
Federalist Papers
Steel Plow
14. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
federalism
popular culture 'pop culture'
textile
Conord Massachusetts
15. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
Susan B Anothony
checks and balances
life expectancy
Conord Massachusetts
16. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
civil disobedience
geographical
prospertiy
Robert E. Lee
17. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
infectious disease
possessions
John C. Calhoun
checks and balances
18. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
accusations
Marbury vs. Madison
ratify
Farewell Address
19. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
federal
currency
resolution
Ulysses S grant
20. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
technological advances
checks and balances
third amendment
The Declaration of Independence
21. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
labor force
militia
nullify
legitmacy
22. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
militia
Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun
Patrick Henry
23. John Deere
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
commercial
Common Sense
Steel Plow
24. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
devastated
Reaper
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
25. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
population boom
nullify
provisions
direct representation
26. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
command economy
distribution
cottage industry
King George III
27. To obtain or receive
acquire
suffrage
End of the American Revolution
Federalist Papers
28. 'Father of the Constitution'
Tea Act
confined
William Lloyd Garrison
James Madison
29. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
birthrate
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Marbury vs. Madison
popular soverignty
30. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
milestones
labor force
economic status
antifederalist
31. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
resolution
civil disobedience
Steamboat
limited government
32. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
subsistence economy
significant
popular soverignty
market economy
33. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
popular soverignty
Abraham Lincoln
standard of living
Jefferson Davis
34. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
landlocked
free enterprise economy
prohibited
35. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
secede
standard of living
government bureaucracy
turmoil
36. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
censorship
landlocked
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Abraham Lincoln
37. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
John C. Calhoun
free enterprise economy
Civil War
Tenth Amedment
38. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
Fifteenth Amendment
End of the American Revolution
population boom
abolition
39. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
abolition
Reaper
Navigation Acts
Fifteenth Amendment
40. 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
Bessemer Process
resolution
The Declaration of Independence
End of the American Revolution
41. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
secede
resolution
Jamestown
Appomattox Curt House
42. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Thomas Jefferson
commader
sixth amendment
Appomattox Curt House
43. Improtant points in an event
The Constitution of the United States
checks and balances
milestones
tyranny
44. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
gross domestic product
antifederalist
Fourteenth Amendment
geographical
45. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
command economy
Proclamation of 1763
Appomattox Curt House
checks and balances
46. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Farewell Address
autocracy
absolute monarch
labor force
47. Robert Fulton
Northwest Ordiance
amendment
Steamboat
James Madison
48. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Common Sense
popular culture 'pop culture'
Impeach
Seperation of Powers
49. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
population boom
federalism
absolute monarch
Samuel Adams
50. Samuel Morse
Northwest Ordiance
Telegraph
suffrage
government bureaucracy