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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. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
Battle of Saratoga
absolute monarch
consumer demand
2. Eli Whitney
prohibited
federal
Interchangeable Parts
Abraham Lincoln
3. Robert Fulton
Tea Act
first amendment
population density
Steamboat
4. Relationships that exsits between governments
Interchangeable Parts
diplomatic relations
prospertiy
relevant
5. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
secondary sources
Navigation Acts
Telegraph
William Lloyd Garrison
6. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
infected
export
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
first amendment
7. 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)
Mexican Cession
command economy
consumer demand
third amendment
8. Abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
significant
Mexican Cession
9. To withdraw or pull away
Mayflower Compact
secede
popular culture 'pop culture'
significant
10. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
Seperation of Powers
efficiency
infectious disease
Frederick Douglas
11. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
Interchangeable Parts
unalienable right
Tenth Amedment
12. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
market economy
free enterprise
diplomatic relations
third amendment
13. Important to a certain event or topic
geographical
censorship
Bessemer Process
significant
14. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Tenth Amedment
First shot of Civil War
Democracy
provisions
15. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
Patrick Henry
diversity
state's rights
turmoil
16. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
export
Reaper
Conord Massachusetts
Tenth Amedment
17. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Emancipation Proclamations
secede
autocracy
Patrick Henry
18. Having to do with business
commercial
civil disobedience
federal
sixth amendment
19. 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)
Battle of Saratoga
unalienable right
Fourteenth Amendment
currency
20. 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
Daniel Webster
Treaty of Paris of 1763
civil disobedience
nullification
21. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
infected
Tea Act
magna carta
cultivation
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.
Federalist Papers
Mayflower Compact
raw materials
Tea Act
23. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Abraham Lincoln
Federalist Papers
Reaper
grievance
24. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
Mayflower Compact
acquire
suffrage
direct representation
25. Not allowed
prohibited
Farewell Address
suffrage
tyranny
26. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
secede
accusations
nullification
27. 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
currency
Alexander Hamilton
federalism
Steel Plow
28. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Seperation of Powers
Conord Massachusetts
Samuel Adams
29. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
Proclamation of 1763
harsh
consumer demand
William Lloyd Garrison
30. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Jefferson Davis
Bill of Rights
censorship
John C. Calhoun
31. The state of acting according to law; lawful
provisions
legitmacy
Farewell Address
population density
32. John Deere
Tea Act
Fifteenth Amendment
Emancipation Proclamations
Steel Plow
33. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
civil disobedience
cottage industry
tyranny
raw materials
34. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
First shot of Civil War
Steamboat
suffrage
ninth amendment
35. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
Marbury vs. Madison
checks and balances
free enterprise
gross domestic product
36. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
End of the American Revolution
Andrew Jackson
population density
crossroads
37. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Telegraph
Treaty of Paris of 1763
abolition
Battle of Saratoga
38. 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
mercantilism
federalist
infectious disease
amendment
39. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Cotton Gin
democratic republic
Thomas Jefferson
gross domestic product
40. General of the confederate army
Frederick Douglas
Henry Clay
Robert E. Lee
milestones
41. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
milestones
Seperation of Powers
censorship
market economy
42. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
cottage industry
accusations
primary sources
economic status
43. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
birthrate
unalienable right
draft
abolition
44. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
First shot of Civil War
Impeach
Civil War
grievance
45. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
King George III
censorship
legitmacy
efficiency
46. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
life expectancy
legitmacy
civil disobedience
export
47. Changing iron into steal
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Tea Act
Bessemer Process
suffrage
48. Improtant points in an event
Robert E. Lee
milestones
command economy
confined
49. Led to the Boston Tea Party
free enterprise
Farewell Address
Bessemer Process
Tea Act
50. Realting to an event
Mayflower Compact
resolution
abolition
relevant