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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. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
foreign policy
distribution
Fifteenth Amendment
state's rights
2. Living in a city
Henry Clay
Thirteenth Amendment
standard of living
urban
3. Abolished slavery
abolition
Steamboat
Thirteenth Amendment
sixth amendment
4. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
Jamestown
Proclamation of 1763
Conord Massachusetts
Jefferson Davis
5. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
infectious disease
Farewell Address
treason
6. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Thomas Jefferson
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Farewell Address
population density
7. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
legitmacy
infected
provisions
per capita income
8. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
King George III
absolute monarch
Bill of Rights
Tea Act
9. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
Steamboat
President Thomas Jefferson
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Lincoln
10. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
landlocked
cultivation
direct representation
free enterprise economy
11. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
Seperation of Powers
Proclamation of 1763
12. 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
13. To withdraw or pull away
Gibbons vs. Ogden
secede
government bureaucracy
harsh
14. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
route
cottage industry
relevant
raw materials
15. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
federal
foreign policy
Tenth Amedment
Proclamation of 1763
16. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
legitmacy
John C. Calhoun
theocracy
primary sources
17. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
population boom
cultivation
Gettysburg Adress
benjamin franklin
18. 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
Bessemer Process
Tea Act
Jamestown
19. Important; of consequence
Conord Massachusetts
theocracy
Northwest Ordiance
significant
20. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Henry Clay
rural
raw materials
Common Sense
21. Ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America; ended the American Revolution and foreced Britian to recginze the United States as an idependent Nations
Common Sense
James Madison
sixth amendment
Treaty of Paris of 1763
22. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
currency
Democracy
Appomattox Curt House
finalcial resources
23. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Daniel Webster
The Great Compromise
amend
labor force
24. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
commader
Fifteenth Amendment
migration
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
25. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
rural
tariff
Conord Massachusetts
prospertiy
26. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Abraham Lincoln
confined
Democracy
Samuel Adams
27. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
milestones
federal
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
confined
28. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
Marbury vs. Madison
federalism
route
Tea Act
29. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
benjamin franklin
federalist
life expectancy
turmoil
30. Relationships that exsits between governments
Reaper
diplomatic relations
export
subsistence economy
31. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
legitmacy
sixth amendment
migration
geographical
32. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
The Declaration of Independence
possessions
command economy
Jefferson Davis
33. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
William Lloyd Garrison
Jamestown
finalcial resources
James Madison
34. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
efficiency
Bessemer Process
Frederick Douglas
35. Means to improve by vote
consumer demand
ratify
The first shots of the American Revolution
distribution
36. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
cultivation
Jamestown
Frederick Douglas
infected
37. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
infectious disease
mercantilism
secondary sources
nullification
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)
birthrate
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thomas Jefferson
unalienable right
39. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
Andrew Jackson
harsh
Susan B Anothony
migration
40. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Fourteenth Amendment
James Madison
amend
mercantilism
41. 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
benjamin franklin
primary sources
diplomatic relations
42. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
rural
prospertiy
suffrage
43. Short speech given by Abrahman Lincoln to dedicate a cemetry for soliders who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is considered a profound statement of American ideals. Four score and seven years ago - our fathers....and that governemtn of the peopl
democratic republic
labor force
Patrick Henry
Gettysburg Adress
44. Changing iron into steal
Bessemer Process
Emancipation Proclamations
Tenth Amedment
cultivation
45. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
amendment
infected
gross domestic product
censorship
46. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
export
limited government
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Bill of Rights
47. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
rural
Patrick Henry
Battle of Saratoga
textile
48. Series of essays written by James Madison - John Jay - Alexander Hamilton - defending the Consituion and the principles on which the government of the United States was founded
harsh
Federalist Papers
Bessemer Process
popular culture 'pop culture'
49. Important to a certain event or topic
turmoil
John C. Calhoun
gross domestic product
significant
50. A point at which an important decision must be made
crossroads
Tenth Amedment
Interchangeable Parts
cottage industry