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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
theocracy
treason
Navigation Acts
Bessemer Process
2. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
diversity
gross domestic product
prospertiy
turmoil
3. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
federalist
subsistence economy
Interchangeable Parts
Navigation Acts
4. Things that you own
Bessemer Process
Gettysburg Adress
possessions
literacy rate
5. An act of the Second Continental Congress - adopted on July 4 - 1776 - which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were 'Free and Independent States' and that 'all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain - is a
grievance
The Declaration of Independence
Steamboat
prohibited
6. General of the confederate army
federal
commercial
Robert E. Lee
Fourteenth Amendment
7. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
infectious disease
finalcial resources
significant
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
8. Women's rights organizer
acquire
Susan B Anothony
nullification
The Declaration of Independence
9. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Frederick Douglas
President Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
Mexican Cession
10. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
unalienable right
prospertiy
Treaty of Paris of 1763
11. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
ratify
Farewell Address
Susan B Anothony
12. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
prohibited
Robert E. Lee
Telegraph
cultivation
13. Samuel Morse
market economy
Telegraph
The first shots of the American Revolution
technological advances
14. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
autocracy
life expectancy
civil disobedience
Henry Clay
15. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Henry Clay
Tenth Amedment
labor force
Federalist Papers
16. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
third amendment
Judicial Review
Jamestown
harsh
17. Important to a certain event or topic
Frederick Douglas
second amendment
Federalist Papers
significant
18. Led to the Boston Tea Party
The first shots of the American Revolution
Tea Act
Samuel Adams
Navigation Acts
19. Is a cruel and unjust government
primary sources
ratify
gross domestic product
tyranny
20. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
Daniel Webster
command economy
population growth
Abraham Lincoln
21. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
militia
President Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
adjacent
22. Eli Whitney
separation of powers
The first shots of the American Revolution
adjacent
Interchangeable Parts
23. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Judicial Review
civil disobedience
Telegraph
Tea Act
24. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
Telegraph
nullification
consumer demand
cultivation
25. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
significant
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
magna carta
First shot of Civil War
26. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
ninth amendment
Harriet Tubman
milestones
diversity
27. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
democratic republic
acquire
Impeach
third amendment
28. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
popular soverignty
Patrick Henry
Common Sense
The Great Compromise
29. 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.
checks and balances
John C. Calhoun
Jamestown
Mayflower Compact
30. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
free enterprise
Democracy
Impeach
Gettysburg Adress
31. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
relevant
acquire
birthrate
landlocked
32. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
Cotton Gin
route
ninth amendment
Northwest Ordiance
33. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
Jefferson Davis
consumer demand
secede
absolute monarch
34. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
federal
Susan B Anothony
Gettysburg Adress
theocracy
35. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
benjamin franklin
Fifteenth Amendment
Interchangeable Parts
Democracy
36. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Emancipation Proclamations
tariff
Cotton Gin
The first shots of the American Revolution
37. Not allowed
subsistence economy
prohibited
landlocked
free enterprise economy
38. To withdraw or pull away
amendment
secede
Proclamation of 1763
End of the American Revolution
39. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
infected
William Lloyd Garrison
third amendment
magna carta
40. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
popular soverignty
finalcial resources
cultivation
Frederick Douglas
41. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
legitmacy
Interchangeable Parts
gross domestic product
per capita income
42. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
James Monroe
Mayflower Compact
secede
secondary sources
43. Robert Fulton
Mexican Cession
Bill of Rights
Steamboat
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
44. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
landlocked
Ulysses S grant
magna carta
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
45. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
migration
The Constitution of the United States
second amendment
government bureaucracy
46. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
amendment
Cotton Gin
federalism
accusations
47. Compliantes againsts a person or state
sixth amendment
grievance
Harriet Tubman
migration
48. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
livstock
democratic republic
Alexander Hamilton
King George III
49. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Civil War
Steamboat
prospertiy
Telegraph
50. 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
abolition
state's rights
Frederick Douglas
Marbury vs. Madison