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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. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Seperation of Powers
Fifteenth Amendment
milestones
Harriet Tubman
2. Important to a certain event or topic
Federalist Papers
standard of living
cottage industry
significant
3. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
accusations
textile
Fifteenth Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
4. To change
amend
export
landlocked
per capita income
5. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Daniel Webster
per capita income
Civil War
democratic republic
6. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
grievance
popular soverignty
Fourteenth Amendment
James Madison
7. 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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8. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
unalienable right
Conord Massachusetts
magna carta
significant
9. 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
Reaper
adjacent
Alexander Hamilton
federal
10. 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
Treaty of Paris of 1763
benjamin franklin
population boom
11. 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
Interchangeable Parts
labor force
Northwest Ordiance
12. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
third amendment
migration
William Lloyd Garrison
Henry Clay
13. Means to improve by vote
The Constitution of the United States
ratify
diplomatic relations
diversity
14. To be compeletly destroyed
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
famine
secede
devastated
15. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
livstock
foreign policy
economic status
adjacent
16. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Bill of Rights
first amendment
population growth
export
17. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
sixth amendment
antifederalist
finalcial resources
President Thomas Jefferson
18. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
distribution
currency
secede
civil disobedience
19. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
absolute monarch
livstock
subsistence economy
relevant
20. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Farewell Address
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
legitmacy
Steamboat
21. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
acquire
ratify
Steel Plow
finalcial resources
22. Living in a country
population growth
Mexican Cession
secondary sources
rural
23. Improtant points in an event
First shot of Civil War
Samuel Adams
milestones
prohibited
24. Led to the Boston Tea Party
distribution
geographical
cottage industry
Tea Act
25. Important; of consequence
Battle of Saratoga
significant
Jefferson Davis
adjacent
26. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
milestones
relevant
Mexican Cession
King George III
27. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
first amendment
route
direct representation
draft
28. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
Patrick Henry
Robert E. Lee
textile
29. The 1803 Court decision that gave the Supreme Court the right to determine whether a law violates the Constituion it set up the principle of Judical Review
John C. Calhoun
Marbury vs. Madison
militia
End of the American Revolution
30. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
autocracy
first amendment
Ulysses S grant
harsh
31. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
separation of powers
federal
The Great Compromise
Steel Plow
32. Is a cruel and unjust government
technological advances
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Daniel Webster
tyranny
33. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
population boom
commercial
legitmacy
treason
34. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
William Lloyd Garrison
Proclamation of 1763
foreign policy
Fourteenth Amendment
35. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
commercial
Samuel Adams
amendment
Mexican Cession
36. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
autocracy
Interchangeable Parts
tyranny
Robert E. Lee
37. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
nullification
infected
censorship
relevant
38. 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
absolute monarch
Civil War
Seperation of Powers
39. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
Patrick Henry
distribution
Cotton Gin
amendment
40. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
Battle of Gettysburg
treason
infectious disease
Samuel Adams
41. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
significant
Alexander Hamilton
landlocked
Emancipation Proclamations
42. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
geographical
significant
provisions
First shot of Civil War
43. 'Father of the Constitution'
suffrage
James Madison
absolute monarch
Cotton Gin
44. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
milestones
provisions
population density
45. 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
distribution
autocracy
William Lloyd Garrison
mercantilism
46. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
standard of living
rural
efficiency
Battle of Saratoga
47. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
government bureaucracy
commader
ninth amendment
48. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
significant
literacy rate
subsistence economy
devastated
49. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Abraham Lincoln
relevant
adjacent
Civil War
50. Robert Fulton
milestones
resolution
Cotton Gin
Steamboat