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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 freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
route
legitmacy
tariff
free enterprise
2. 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.'
significant
currency
diplomatic relations
Patrick Henry
3. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
civil disobedience
James Madison
possessions
birthrate
4. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
amend
provisions
Bill of Rights
distribution
5. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
President Thomas Jefferson
King George III
Mexican Cession
federalist
6. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
population growth
Jefferson Davis
Cotton Gin
Ulysses S grant
7. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Democracy
Telegraph
crossroads
Appomattox Curt House
8. Led to the Boston Tea Party
The Declaration of Independence
geographical
tariff
Tea Act
9. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
route
The Great Compromise
Battle of Saratoga
diversity
10. Short speech given by Abrahman Lincoln to dedicate a cemetry for soliders who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is considered a profound statement of American ideals. Four score and seven years ago - our fathers....and that governemtn of the peopl
prohibited
Ulysses S grant
Gettysburg Adress
livstock
11. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
rural
third amendment
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
theocracy
12. 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
End of the American Revolution
geographical
harsh
crossroads
13. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
Proclamation of 1763
technological advances
autocracy
First shot of Civil War
14. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
direct representation
resolution
Interchangeable Parts
ninth amendment
15. 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
President Thomas Jefferson
Gettysburg Adress
Alexander Hamilton
grievance
16. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
second amendment
James Monroe
commader
Ulysses S grant
17. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Samuel Adams
secede
federal
harsh
18. Means to improve by vote
state's rights
Interchangeable Parts
economic status
ratify
19. 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
Democracy
Federalist Papers
first amendment
King George III
20. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
market economy
Civil War
democratic republic
censorship
21. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
censorship
consumer demand
government bureaucracy
Thomas Jefferson
22. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
Alexander Hamilton
confined
antifederalist
legitmacy
23. 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';
textile
efficiency
The Constitution of the United States
nullify
24. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
livstock
diversity
unalienable right
grievance
25. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
Northwest Ordiance
Appomattox Curt House
export
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
26. 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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27. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Cotton Gin
population boom
raw materials
ninth amendment
28. To be compeletly destroyed
command economy
finalcial resources
devastated
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
29. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
finalcial resources
popular culture 'pop culture'
cultivation
Judicial Review
30. Relationships that exsits between governments
militia
diplomatic relations
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
resolution
31. Changing iron into steal
free enterprise economy
acquire
significant
Bessemer Process
32. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
nullification
infected
popular culture 'pop culture'
Fifteenth Amendment
33. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
First shot of Civil War
nullification
militia
treason
34. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
separation of powers
grievance
Northwest Ordiance
gross domestic product
35. Next to or beside
labor force
Patrick Henry
Farewell Address
adjacent
36. To change
amend
Robert E. Lee
James Madison
Jefferson Davis
37. Important to a certain event or topic
significant
technological advances
Reaper
economic status
38. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Democracy
milestones
democratic republic
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
39. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
state's rights
Farewell Address
free enterprise economy
provisions
40. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
birthrate
foreign policy
consumer demand
population boom
41. 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.
Mayflower Compact
antifederalist
livstock
federalism
42. Women's rights organizer
Susan B Anothony
first amendment
turmoil
textile
43. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
population growth
censorship
ninth amendment
technological advances
44. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
First shot of Civil War
diversity
standard of living
amend
45. Robert Fulton
Steamboat
Henry Clay
End of the American Revolution
diversity
46. 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)
Impeach
unalienable right
distribution
suffrage
47. Not allowed
Alexander Hamilton
second amendment
free enterprise economy
prohibited
48. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
labor force
milestones
abolition
per capita income
49. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
subsistence economy
adjacent
militia
Thirteenth Amendment
50. Compliantes againsts a person or state
theocracy
grievance
Samuel Adams
finalcial resources