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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. 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
free enterprise
Samuel Adams
market economy
2. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
turmoil
Emancipation Proclamations
Judicial Review
3. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
Samuel Adams
acquire
birthrate
Mexican Cession
4. A point at which an important decision must be made
Battle of Gettysburg
crossroads
diversity
Reaper
5. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
foreign policy
Reaper
primary sources
rural
6. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Tenth Amedment
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
7. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
second amendment
secondary sources
Tea Act
famine
8. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
third amendment
consumer demand
Henry Clay
9. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
federal
First shot of Civil War
mercantilism
militia
10. Women's rights organizer
per capita income
migration
Susan B Anothony
Democracy
11. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
militia
population boom
geographical
Steel Plow
12. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Andrew Jackson
legitmacy
separation of powers
Henry Clay
13. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
population boom
Fifteenth Amendment
James Monroe
harsh
14. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Emancipation Proclamations
Impeach
militia
Harriet Tubman
15. Means to improve by vote
Proclamation of 1763
relevant
ratify
autocracy
16. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Judicial Review
President Thomas Jefferson
Jamestown
limited government
17. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
federalist
currency
theocracy
Appomattox Curt House
18. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
Fourteenth Amendment
Bill of Rights
acquire
amendment
19. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
federalism
grievance
antifederalist
John C. Calhoun
20. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
diversity
third amendment
John C. Calhoun
free enterprise
21. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
Mayflower Compact
devastated
limited government
benjamin franklin
22. 'Father of the Constitution'
Proclamation of 1763
James Madison
Judicial Review
relevant
23. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
raw materials
migration
landlocked
Patrick Henry
24. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
benjamin franklin
Samuel Adams
absolute monarch
tyranny
25. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
devastated
Thomas Jefferson
federal
infected
26. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
John C. Calhoun
tariff
Jefferson Davis
Tenth Amedment
27. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
magna carta
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
free enterprise economy
Andrew Jackson
28. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
Andrew Jackson
federalism
adjacent
turmoil
29. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
mercantilism
population density
Daniel Webster
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
30. The supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted on September 17 - 1787 - by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - and later ratified by conventions in each state in the name of 'the People';
The Constitution of the United States
Battle of Gettysburg
tariff
militia
31. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
King George III
Civil War
Mayflower Compact
Northwest Ordiance
32. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
population boom
Civil War
migration
benjamin franklin
33. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
magna carta
population boom
accusations
Battle of Gettysburg
34. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
birthrate
benjamin franklin
secondary sources
standard of living
35. Living in a city
urban
commader
federalist
John C. Calhoun
36. 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)
federalism
unalienable right
Bill of Rights
grievance
37. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
confined
government bureaucracy
King George III
Reaper
38. 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
Alexander Hamilton
distribution
magna carta
diplomatic relations
39. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
Daniel Webster
adjacent
literacy rate
limited government
40. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
per capita income
population growth
The Declaration of Independence
technological advances
41. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Jefferson Davis
per capita income
Abraham Lincoln
livstock
42. 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)
prospertiy
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
consumer demand
federalism
43. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
amend
Proclamation of 1763
distribution
John C. Calhoun
44. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
turmoil
Gettysburg Adress
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Interchangeable Parts
45. Important; of consequence
geographical
significant
diversity
President Thomas Jefferson
46. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Tea Act
famine
Samuel Adams
Henry Clay
47. Having to do with business
Thomas Jefferson
commercial
harsh
Daniel Webster
48. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
finalcial resources
command economy
amend
foreign policy
49. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
devastated
resolution
antifederalist
The Constitution of the United States
50. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
theocracy
Democracy
The Declaration of Independence