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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. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
raw materials
famine
commader
benjamin franklin
2. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Telegraph
unalienable right
civil disobedience
Emancipation Proclamations
3. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
Jamestown
free enterprise economy
Tenth Amedment
accusations
4. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
life expectancy
population growth
Interchangeable Parts
militia
5. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
nullification
democratic republic
amendment
geographical
6. Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts
second amendment
checks and balances
cultivation
7. The right to vote
amendment
suffrage
distribution
possessions
8. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
absolute monarch
tyranny
currency
labor force
9. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
literacy rate
diversity
free enterprise
antifederalist
10. Improtant points in an event
Bessemer Process
milestones
secede
John C. Calhoun
11. Widespread hunger within a given region
treason
The Declaration of Independence
population density
famine
12. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
Cotton Gin
separation of powers
third amendment
Reaper
13. 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
Federalist Papers
resolution
William Lloyd Garrison
14. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
absolute monarch
Conord Massachusetts
Jefferson Davis
Federalist Papers
15. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Abraham Lincoln
route
Fourteenth Amendment
currency
16. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
Steel Plow
federalist
ratify
Tenth Amedment
17. 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
Alexander Hamilton
geographical
Conord Massachusetts
Marbury vs. Madison
18. Living in a city
President Thomas Jefferson
diversity
urban
Robert E. Lee
19. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Steamboat
Tea Act
landlocked
The Declaration of Independence
20. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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21. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
resolution
Samuel Adams
Proclamation of 1763
unalienable right
22. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
James Monroe
absolute monarch
rural
Thomas Jefferson
23. Having to do with business
urban
distribution
commercial
infectious disease
24. Changing iron into steal
Interchangeable Parts
Conord Massachusetts
Alexander Hamilton
Bessemer Process
25. Original records of an event - they incldue eyewitness reports created at the time of an event speeches - and letters by people involved in the event - photographs and artifacts
End of the American Revolution
labor force
primary sources
landlocked
26. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
resolution
confined
Telegraph
free enterprise economy
27. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
magna carta
Jamestown
significant
standard of living
28. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
amendment
textile
possessions
The Constitution of the United States
29. 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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30. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
federal
accusations
Daniel Webster
William Lloyd Garrison
31. Having to do with clothing
ninth amendment
magna carta
Proclamation of 1763
textile
32. Moving from one place to antoher
Common Sense
migration
government bureaucracy
geographical
33. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
efficiency
second amendment
infectious disease
nullify
34. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
population boom
amend
Andrew Jackson
35. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Robert E. Lee
Daniel Webster
direct representation
primary sources
36. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
literacy rate
Conord Massachusetts
The Great Compromise
amend
37. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Ulysses S grant
population boom
tyranny
Harriet Tubman
38. 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)
unalienable right
landlocked
popular culture 'pop culture'
secondary sources
39. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
Telegraph
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
40. The constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to counsel - the right to confront witnesses - and the right to a speedy and public trial.
Susan B Anothony
sixth amendment
Reaper
The Constitution of the United States
41. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Harriet Tubman
Fifteenth Amendment
government bureaucracy
infectious disease
42. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
cottage industry
technological advances
theocracy
Battle of Saratoga
43. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
infectious disease
President Thomas Jefferson
nullification
44. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
secede
devastated
absolute monarch
cultivation
45. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Conord Massachusetts
possessions
Seperation of Powers
46. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
Mayflower Compact
limited government
Jefferson Davis
Steamboat
47. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
cottage industry
labor force
popular soverignty
Cotton Gin
48. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
End of the American Revolution
Battle of Saratoga
antifederalist
Bessemer Process
49. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
famine
efficiency
The Constitution of the United States
confined
50. 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
Robert E. Lee
distribution
Alexander Hamilton
economic status