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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
King George III
The Declaration of Independence
Thirteenth Amendment
Seperation of Powers
2. Changing iron into steal
nullification
federalist
Bessemer Process
accusations
3. 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.
Interchangeable Parts
government bureaucracy
Mayflower Compact
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
4. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
ninth amendment
per capita income
infectious disease
draft
5. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
government bureaucracy
Battle of Saratoga
migration
life expectancy
6. Established a system of setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the UNion. its consitution had to provide for a representative governemnt and ithad to prohibit slavery
provisions
Northwest Ordiance
Alexander Hamilton
nullify
7. Samuel Morse
cottage industry
Telegraph
democratic republic
Battle of Gettysburg
8. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Tea Act
Bill of Rights
market economy
federalist
9. Realting to an event
third amendment
free enterprise
Common Sense
relevant
10. Abolished slavery
efficiency
Thirteenth Amendment
James Monroe
popular soverignty
11. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Gibbons vs. Ogden
checks and balances
Impeach
efficiency
12. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
legitmacy
suffrage
Steel Plow
theocracy
13. Having to do with business
The Constitution of the United States
commercial
adjacent
James Madison
14. To be compeletly destroyed
Telegraph
devastated
subsistence economy
Gibbons vs. Ogden
15. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
Frederick Douglas
ratify
direct representation
free enterprise economy
16. 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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17. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
cultivation
Conord Massachusetts
Steel Plow
18. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
government bureaucracy
The first shots of the American Revolution
literacy rate
amendment
19. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
cottage industry
devastated
accusations
Mayflower Compact
20. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
per capita income
Civil War
Andrew Jackson
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
21. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
government bureaucracy
direct representation
crossroads
landlocked
22. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
Henry Clay
standard of living
free enterprise
grievance
23. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
mercantilism
Farewell Address
Steel Plow
separation of powers
24. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Samuel Adams
federal
democratic republic
The Constitution of the United States
25. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
finalcial resources
censorship
Tea Act
rural
26. Not allowed
tariff
consumer demand
James Madison
prohibited
27. Means to improve by vote
nullification
magna carta
ratify
amendment
28. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
free enterprise economy
separation of powers
James Monroe
29. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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30. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
federalist
secondary sources
geographical
adjacent
31. 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
James Monroe
benjamin franklin
separation of powers
Andrew Jackson
32. To obtain or receive
acquire
birthrate
absolute monarch
militia
33. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Seperation of Powers
theocracy
crossroads
Fourteenth Amendment
34. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Samuel Adams
limited government
Abraham Lincoln
35. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
absolute monarch
Patrick Henry
Andrew Jackson
36. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
treason
Reaper
cultivation
Tenth Amedment
37. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
raw materials
ninth amendment
President Thomas Jefferson
command economy
38. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
suffrage
Cotton Gin
Susan B Anothony
standard of living
39. Relationships that exsits between governments
Robert E. Lee
textile
diplomatic relations
civil disobedience
40. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
The Constitution of the United States
resolution
foreign policy
antifederalist
41. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Steamboat
migration
Mexican Cession
state's rights
42. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Civil War
first amendment
market economy
currency
43. Moving from one place to antoher
Treaty of Paris of 1763
migration
mercantilism
Emancipation Proclamations
44. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
first amendment
secondary sources
amendment
life expectancy
45. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
commader
civil disobedience
First shot of Civil War
treason
46. Eli Whitney
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
crossroads
Interchangeable Parts
Mexican Cession
47. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
free enterprise economy
geographical
currency
Appomattox Curt House
48. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
economic status
Reaper
Bill of Rights
federal
49. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
theocracy
Proclamation of 1763
ninth amendment
abolition
50. Robert Fulton
Steamboat
relevant
commercial
End of the American Revolution
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