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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. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
economic status
cultivation
harsh
Samuel Adams
2. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
significant
militia
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
provisions
3. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
free enterprise economy
Cotton Gin
direct representation
prospertiy
4. Improtant points in an event
milestones
significant
censorship
first amendment
5. Abolished slavery
Fourteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Gibbons vs. Ogden
turmoil
6. Living in a city
urban
Fourteenth Amendment
foreign policy
second amendment
7. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
commader
Judicial Review
draft
democratic republic
8. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Mayflower Compact
checks and balances
labor force
subsistence economy
9. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
Conord Massachusetts
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Mayflower Compact
10. A point at which an important decision must be made
antifederalist
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
prospertiy
crossroads
11. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
militia
Democracy
Samuel Adams
Tea Act
12. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Andrew Jackson
Fifteenth Amendment
Jefferson Davis
James Madison
13. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
migration
milestones
turmoil
efficiency
14. 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
Treaty of Paris of 1763
foreign policy
unalienable right
accusations
15. 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
Emancipation Proclamations
Farewell Address
tyranny
16. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Judicial Review
benjamin franklin
route
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
17. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
autocracy
accusations
The Declaration of Independence
population density
18. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
crossroads
direct representation
federalism
magna carta
19. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
third amendment
distribution
Battle of Gettysburg
Impeach
20. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Emancipation Proclamations
Bessemer Process
William Lloyd Garrison
foreign policy
21. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
accusations
The first shots of the American Revolution
federalist
Steamboat
22. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
efficiency
birthrate
Daniel Webster
devastated
23. Robert Fulton
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
popular soverignty
Steamboat
provisions
24. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
life expectancy
Battle of Gettysburg
infectious disease
Abraham Lincoln
25. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
Mexican Cession
Fifteenth Amendment
ninth amendment
26. 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)
consumer demand
livstock
subsistence economy
Alexander Hamilton
27. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
amend
population boom
Tenth Amedment
subsistence economy
28. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
turmoil
autocracy
milestones
federal
29. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
primary sources
Conord Massachusetts
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
absolute monarch
30. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
unalienable right
suffrage
standard of living
31. The right to vote
The Great Compromise
suffrage
Reaper
federalism
32. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
government bureaucracy
efficiency
Susan B Anothony
popular soverignty
33. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
unalienable right
censorship
Fifteenth Amendment
first amendment
34. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
urban
legitmacy
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Cotton Gin
35. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
economic status
federal
foreign policy
Cotton Gin
36. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
third amendment
nullify
Robert E. Lee
export
37. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
theocracy
tyranny
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
federalism
38. 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
Marbury vs. Madison
second amendment
efficiency
Henry Clay
39. Means to improve by vote
Steamboat
subsistence economy
Robert E. Lee
ratify
40. 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
Gibbons vs. Ogden
federal
Henry Clay
Steamboat
41. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
cultivation
free enterprise economy
famine
autocracy
42. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
limited government
Appomattox Curt House
Navigation Acts
export
43. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Fifteenth Amendment
Navigation Acts
William Lloyd Garrison
significant
44. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
population growth
John C. Calhoun
standard of living
amendment
45. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
Thirteenth Amendment
rural
Democracy
46. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
Bill of Rights
separation of powers
secondary sources
Thirteenth Amendment
47. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
treason
James Monroe
distribution
Northwest Ordiance
48. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
Interchangeable Parts
free enterprise
Patrick Henry
cultivation
49. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
Steamboat
export
benjamin franklin
theocracy
50. Important to a certain event or topic
sixth amendment
Northwest Ordiance
significant
treason