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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 delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
Impeach
distribution
Thomas Jefferson
Federalist Papers
2. Compliantes againsts a person or state
popular culture 'pop culture'
grievance
benjamin franklin
Daniel Webster
3. 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.
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
federalist
sixth amendment
famine
4. The right to vote
per capita income
prohibited
Abraham Lincoln
suffrage
5. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
democratic republic
grievance
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
draft
6. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
Navigation Acts
theocracy
Fourteenth Amendment
cultivation
7. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Emancipation Proclamations
foreign policy
cultivation
Democracy
8. General of the confederate army
life expectancy
secede
Steel Plow
Robert E. Lee
9. 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)
state's rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
unalienable right
devastated
10. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
federalism
Patrick Henry
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
primary sources
11. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
prohibited
significant
cottage industry
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
12. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Battle of Saratoga
Judicial Review
Frederick Douglas
significant
13. Leader of the original democratic party and a 'president of the pople' he was also responsbible for the Trail of Tears - which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River
Andrew Jackson
export
Cotton Gin
James Madison
14. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
famine
Gettysburg Adress
Gibbons vs. Ogden
15. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
resolution
population growth
Abraham Lincoln
prospertiy
16. Not allowed
adjacent
prohibited
popular soverignty
King George III
17. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
secede
export
First shot of Civil War
militia
18. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
Marbury vs. Madison
limited government
geographical
free enterprise economy
19. 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
Northwest Ordiance
The Declaration of Independence
commader
Steel Plow
20. Important; of consequence
geographical
distribution
literacy rate
significant
21. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
Emancipation Proclamations
government bureaucracy
Henry Clay
benjamin franklin
22. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
prospertiy
Telegraph
Fifteenth Amendment
commercial
23. Next to or beside
standard of living
prospertiy
Henry Clay
adjacent
24. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Jefferson Davis
Samuel Adams
unalienable right
cottage industry
25. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
autocracy
grievance
federal
democratic republic
26. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
secondary sources
provisions
raw materials
gross domestic product
27. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
treason
provisions
infectious disease
antifederalist
28. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
resolution
Tenth Amedment
Northwest Ordiance
Mexican Cession
29. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Susan B Anothony
finalcial resources
Jefferson Davis
treason
30. Important to a certain event or topic
End of the American Revolution
significant
foreign policy
direct representation
31. 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
prohibited
ninth amendment
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Alexander Hamilton
32. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
Steamboat
first amendment
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
33. Leader of the Federalist - first Treasurer of the US creator of the Bank of the U.S. killed in a duel by the Vice President of the US Aaron Burr
population growth
Seperation of Powers
Alexander Hamilton
Mayflower Compact
34. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
checks and balances
milestones
Thirteenth Amendment
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
35. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
tariff
commercial
civil disobedience
Bill of Rights
36. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
Mayflower Compact
provisions
direct representation
amendment
37. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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38. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
treason
Fifteenth Amendment
labor force
nullify
39. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
amend
infectious disease
standard of living
democratic republic
40. Women's rights organizer
consumer demand
separation of powers
suffrage
Susan B Anothony
41. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
First shot of Civil War
Gibbons vs. Ogden
benjamin franklin
commercial
42. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
economic status
Telegraph
limited government
43. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
prospertiy
amendment
currency
harsh
44. Things that you own
subsistence economy
Susan B Anothony
possessions
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
45. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Battle of Gettysburg
Seperation of Powers
secondary sources
Mexican Cession
46. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Farewell Address
first amendment
Harriet Tubman
Reaper
47. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Seperation of Powers
abolition
William Lloyd Garrison
48. Relationships that exsits between governments
Northwest Ordiance
secondary sources
separation of powers
diplomatic relations
49. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
absolute monarch
End of the American Revolution
abolition
censorship
50. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
limited government
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
confined
commader