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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. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Gibbons vs. Ogden
harsh
King George III
2. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
checks and balances
limited government
Harriet Tubman
distribution
3. Changing iron into steal
literacy rate
Bessemer Process
population density
William Lloyd Garrison
4. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
milestones
economic status
Mexican Cession
Reaper
5. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
nullification
urban
Civil War
federalist
6. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
militia
cultivation
unalienable right
Conord Massachusetts
7. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
export
Andrew Jackson
free enterprise
direct representation
8. The right to vote
suffrage
population growth
antifederalist
Tea Act
9. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Proclamation of 1763
autocracy
theocracy
tariff
10. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
efficiency
End of the American Revolution
democratic republic
Bessemer Process
11. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
subsistence economy
foreign policy
labor force
urban
12. To change
amend
draft
Common Sense
checks and balances
13. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
resolution
famine
geographical
Fourteenth Amendment
14. 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.
Jefferson Davis
sixth amendment
amendment
William Lloyd Garrison
15. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
suffrage
Navigation Acts
Mexican Cession
labor force
16. 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
popular soverignty
Cotton Gin
Andrew Jackson
market economy
17. 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
Alexander Hamilton
accusations
adjacent
federalist
18. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
cottage industry
devastated
infectious disease
cultivation
19. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
prospertiy
adjacent
Federalist Papers
magna carta
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
Tenth Amedment
export
Treaty of Paris of 1763
cultivation
21. Widespread hunger within a given region
significant
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
famine
direct representation
22. Means to improve by vote
federal
ratify
Thirteenth Amendment
labor force
23. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
finalcial resources
legitmacy
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
federalist
24. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
population boom
King George III
theocracy
Farewell Address
25. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
amendment
Common Sense
route
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
26. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Fifteenth Amendment
prospertiy
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
The first shots of the American Revolution
27. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
second amendment
Henry Clay
unalienable right
28. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Tea Act
turmoil
King George III
29. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
Jefferson Davis
democratic republic
limited government
Abraham Lincoln
30. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
command economy
free enterprise
civil disobedience
treason
31. To obtain or receive
direct representation
acquire
treason
secede
32. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
Civil War
treason
popular soverignty
geographical
33. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
Thirteenth Amendment
sixth amendment
ninth amendment
Interchangeable Parts
34. The supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted on September 17 - 1787 - by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - and later ratified by conventions in each state in the name of 'the People';
famine
tariff
The Constitution of the United States
economic status
35. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
federalism
per capita income
John C. Calhoun
democratic republic
36. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
efficiency
Mayflower Compact
First shot of Civil War
gross domestic product
37. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Steel Plow
The Declaration of Independence
Thirteenth Amendment
Cotton Gin
38. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
Henry Clay
infectious disease
popular soverignty
landlocked
39. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
gross domestic product
Seperation of Powers
cultivation
devastated
40. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
state's rights
Emancipation Proclamations
Gettysburg Adress
Judicial Review
41. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
First shot of Civil War
federalism
civil disobedience
distribution
42. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Civil War
Gettysburg Adress
Democracy
theocracy
43. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
draft
free enterprise economy
treason
amend
44. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Abraham Lincoln
Tea Act
Ulysses S grant
prospertiy
45. Having to do with business
commercial
Gettysburg Adress
James Monroe
provisions
46. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
End of the American Revolution
export
Jamestown
federalist
47. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
Henry Clay
Cotton Gin
geographical
militia
48. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
autocracy
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
federalism
antifederalist
49. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
direct representation
devastated
Interchangeable Parts
50. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
literacy rate
Appomattox Curt House
diplomatic relations
Mexican Cession