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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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1. Living in a country
commercial
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
rural
checks and balances
2. Means to improve by vote
literacy rate
federalist
legitmacy
ratify
3. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
William Lloyd Garrison
efficiency
resolution
Jefferson Davis
4. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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5. To obtain or receive
acquire
federalism
checks and balances
Mayflower Compact
6. Led to the Boston Tea Party
urban
Tea Act
Navigation Acts
crossroads
7. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
Interchangeable Parts
textile
Andrew Jackson
separation of powers
8. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
popular culture 'pop culture'
nullification
Battle of Saratoga
King George III
9. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
democratic republic
separation of powers
civil disobedience
10. To be compeletly destroyed
currency
civil disobedience
devastated
The Declaration of Independence
11. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
raw materials
command economy
federal
currency
12. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
second amendment
Marbury vs. Madison
limited government
geographical
13. 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
Northwest Ordiance
population boom
route
prospertiy
14. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Proclamation of 1763
crossroads
Emancipation Proclamations
relevant
15. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
standard of living
per capita income
Abraham Lincoln
16. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
livstock
devastated
population density
government bureaucracy
17. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
Steamboat
landlocked
magna carta
population growth
18. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Susan B Anothony
sixth amendment
Proclamation of 1763
Emancipation Proclamations
19. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
per capita income
Northwest Ordiance
The Constitution of the United States
efficiency
20. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
Northwest Ordiance
commader
route
federalist
21. Important; of consequence
economic status
Jefferson Davis
significant
landlocked
22. Righst that you can not surrender - sell or transer. they are a gift from the creator to the individual and can not under any circumstatnces be srurredned or taken (life - liberty - happiness)
Marbury vs. Madison
export
unalienable right
turmoil
23. 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
Mayflower Compact
End of the American Revolution
Interchangeable Parts
export
24. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
command economy
theocracy
literacy rate
population density
25. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
draft
Thomas Jefferson
cultivation
absolute monarch
26. 'Father of the Constitution'
Jamestown
literacy rate
popular soverignty
James Madison
27. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
literacy rate
livstock
labor force
Samuel Adams
28. Is a cruel and unjust government
economic status
Common Sense
tyranny
standard of living
29. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
Bessemer Process
ninth amendment
The first shots of the American Revolution
economic status
30. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Ulysses S grant
nullify
Fourteenth Amendment
31. Not allowed
Appomattox Curt House
commercial
market economy
prohibited
32. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
migration
distribution
state's rights
federalist
33. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
infectious disease
sixth amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
command economy
34. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
federalism
unalienable right
Ulysses S grant
Federalist Papers
35. To contaminate or corup
antifederalist
theocracy
infected
Treaty of Paris of 1763
36. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
literacy rate
benjamin franklin
turmoil
resolution
37. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
primary sources
textile
absolute monarch
draft
38. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
President Thomas Jefferson
confined
harsh
first amendment
39. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
population growth
Conord Massachusetts
Henry Clay
40. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Bill of Rights
Seperation of Powers
secede
resolution
41. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
federalism
economic status
checks and balances
William Lloyd Garrison
42. Important to a certain event or topic
distribution
significant
End of the American Revolution
Impeach
43. Realting to an event
relevant
nullify
currency
Fourteenth Amendment
44. Passionate patriot who became fomous for his fiery speeches in favor of American Independence his most famous quote included the worlds 'give me liberty or give me Death.'
Patrick Henry
market economy
life expectancy
finalcial resources
45. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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46. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
free enterprise
cultivation
currency
The first shots of the American Revolution
47. Eli Whitney
population density
Interchangeable Parts
Conord Massachusetts
Democracy
48. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
provisions
confined
Northwest Ordiance
distribution
49. Living in a city
export
Mayflower Compact
urban
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
50. Samuel Morse
Thomas Jefferson
rural
Cotton Gin
Telegraph