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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. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
prospertiy
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Thomas Jefferson
diversity
2. The state of acting according to law; lawful
technological advances
per capita income
legitmacy
Ulysses S grant
3. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
federalism
amend
Henry Clay
commader
4. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
The Declaration of Independence
The Great Compromise
government bureaucracy
acquire
5. To obtain or receive
economic status
Bill of Rights
suffrage
acquire
6. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
Susan B Anothony
first amendment
separation of powers
Federalist Papers
7. Not allowed
foreign policy
prohibited
Navigation Acts
Bill of Rights
8. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
population density
life expectancy
King George III
Thirteenth Amendment
9. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
standard of living
command economy
draft
second amendment
10. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
First shot of Civil War
William Lloyd Garrison
prohibited
Navigation Acts
11. Led to the Boston Tea Party
primary sources
Tea Act
nullify
technological advances
12. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
significant
federalism
Abraham Lincoln
democratic republic
13. Living in a country
rural
popular culture 'pop culture'
Emancipation Proclamations
Samuel Adams
14. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
Mayflower Compact
textile
route
command economy
15. Having to do with clothing
Daniel Webster
textile
prospertiy
infectious disease
16. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Mexican Cession
life expectancy
Impeach
adjacent
17. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Harriet Tubman
Seperation of Powers
turmoil
infectious disease
18. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
Andrew Jackson
abolition
subsistence economy
geographical
19. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Proclamation of 1763
Mayflower Compact
secondary sources
The Declaration of Independence
20. To withdraw or pull away
unalienable right
The Constitution of the United States
milestones
secede
21. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
federalism
population growth
federal
22. Living in a city
Proclamation of 1763
Fifteenth Amendment
possessions
urban
23. Important; of consequence
antifederalist
mercantilism
significant
commader
24. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
The Great Compromise
First shot of Civil War
amend
President Thomas Jefferson
25. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
raw materials
Tea Act
Marbury vs. Madison
commercial
26. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
Daniel Webster
free enterprise
Northwest Ordiance
27. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
abolition
treason
unalienable right
James Madison
28. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
First shot of Civil War
market economy
route
Battle of Gettysburg
29. Women's rights organizer
The first shots of the American Revolution
Susan B Anothony
Patrick Henry
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
30. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
Steel Plow
cultivation
famine
Ulysses S grant
31. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Seperation of Powers
cottage industry
Jamestown
Fifteenth Amendment
32. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
treason
Steamboat
Cotton Gin
33. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
command economy
urban
The Great Compromise
34. Important to a certain event or topic
Bill of Rights
King George III
federalism
significant
35. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
sixth amendment
Democracy
magna carta
tariff
36. Samuel Morse
Federalist Papers
nullify
Cotton Gin
Telegraph
37. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
urban
standard of living
rural
market economy
38. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
export
magna carta
tariff
tyranny
39. Is a cruel and unjust government
economic status
tyranny
harsh
federalist
40. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
consumer demand
free enterprise economy
Fifteenth Amendment
Farewell Address
41. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
magna carta
urban
checks and balances
amendment
42. 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
Thomas Jefferson
efficiency
Northwest Ordiance
43. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Common Sense
Tenth Amedment
checks and balances
consumer demand
44. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
subsistence economy
militia
secondary sources
federalist
45. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
urban
Ulysses S grant
secede
adjacent
46. 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
William Lloyd Garrison
geographical
raw materials
47. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
relevant
gross domestic product
federal
mercantilism
48. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
first amendment
tariff
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Robert E. Lee
49. The Supreme Court decision that rulled that the consitution gave contorl of interstate comerce to the U.S. congress not the individual states trhough whih a route passed
Henry Clay
labor force
economic status
Gibbons vs. Ogden
50. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
per capita income
tariff
rural
The first shots of the American Revolution