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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. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
third amendment
Bill of Rights
rural
Marbury vs. Madison
2. 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.
democratic republic
grievance
limited government
sixth amendment
3. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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4. 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
Marbury vs. Madison
Frederick Douglas
Jefferson Davis
Mayflower Compact
5. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
ratify
James Monroe
diversity
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
6. Living in a country
John C. Calhoun
secede
rural
route
7. Abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
efficiency
migration
primary sources
8. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
prospertiy
ratify
cottage industry
federalism
9. 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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10. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
federalist
Harriet Tubman
famine
Farewell Address
11. Widespread hunger within a given region
famine
Thirteenth Amendment
Henry Clay
Fourteenth Amendment
12. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
possessions
literacy rate
finalcial resources
President Thomas Jefferson
13. 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.'
Appomattox Curt House
infected
Patrick Henry
Samuel Adams
14. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
primary sources
currency
second amendment
ninth amendment
15. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Fifteenth Amendment
government bureaucracy
third amendment
16. 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';
Abraham Lincoln
The Constitution of the United States
cottage industry
Steel Plow
17. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
direct representation
crossroads
resolution
Northwest Ordiance
18. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
antifederalist
Abraham Lincoln
prospertiy
population boom
19. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
Thirteenth Amendment
Emancipation Proclamations
standard of living
Common Sense
20. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
significant
Emancipation Proclamations
devastated
second amendment
21. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
market economy
Tenth Amedment
prospertiy
secondary sources
22. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
absolute monarch
Telegraph
ninth amendment
Jefferson Davis
23. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
Navigation Acts
William Lloyd Garrison
Impeach
literacy rate
24. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
autocracy
Fourteenth Amendment
Jefferson Davis
Gibbons vs. Ogden
25. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
End of the American Revolution
diversity
mercantilism
population growth
26. To change
amend
The Constitution of the United States
nullification
Marbury vs. Madison
27. Living in a city
technological advances
urban
Thomas Jefferson
free enterprise
28. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Civil War
Impeach
export
militia
29. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
cottage industry
absolute monarch
checks and balances
Appomattox Curt House
30. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
landlocked
famine
Samuel Adams
popular culture 'pop culture'
31. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Frederick Douglas
Proclamation of 1763
migration
free enterprise economy
32. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
Fifteenth Amendment
third amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
civil disobedience
33. Changing iron into steal
diversity
prohibited
Bessemer Process
government bureaucracy
34. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
free enterprise economy
democratic republic
accusations
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
35. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
democratic republic
amend
suffrage
free enterprise economy
36. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
market economy
Gibbons vs. Ogden
accusations
37. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
Common Sense
cottage industry
prospertiy
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
38. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
nullify
per capita income
nullification
autocracy
39. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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40. Is a cruel and unjust government
possessions
landlocked
raw materials
tyranny
41. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
Steel Plow
third amendment
autocracy
censorship
42. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
democratic republic
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
urban
federal
43. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
End of the American Revolution
raw materials
population growth
direct representation
44. An act of the Second Continental Congress - adopted on July 4 - 1776 - which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were 'Free and Independent States' and that 'all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain - is a
The Declaration of Independence
livstock
third amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
45. 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
Fourteenth Amendment
King George III
raw materials
primary sources
46. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
ratify
prospertiy
Reaper
relevant
47. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Mexican Cession
Henry Clay
federalist
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
48. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
Steel Plow
nullify
provisions
ratify
49. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
ninth amendment
standard of living
treason
resolution
50. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
amend
unalienable right
economic status
federalism