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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
federal
command economy
checks and balances
Steel Plow
2. Moving from one place to antoher
urban
crossroads
Impeach
migration
3. Things that you own
possessions
checks and balances
James Monroe
harsh
4. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
harsh
significant
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Ulysses S grant
5. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
foreign policy
Ulysses S grant
Samuel Adams
nullify
6. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
direct representation
market economy
nullify
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
7. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
secondary sources
provisions
popular culture 'pop culture'
resolution
8. Abolished slavery
civil disobedience
Thirteenth Amendment
federal
James Madison
9. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
President Thomas Jefferson
urban
antifederalist
population growth
10. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
Harriet Tubman
free enterprise
ratify
livstock
11. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
mercantilism
resolution
population density
rural
12. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
federalism
third amendment
cottage industry
efficiency
13. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
Alexander Hamilton
Marbury vs. Madison
prospertiy
harsh
14. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
population density
First shot of Civil War
Steel Plow
ninth amendment
15. 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)
landlocked
cottage industry
Jefferson Davis
consumer demand
16. Relationships that exsits between governments
diplomatic relations
efficiency
secede
technological advances
17. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
suffrage
Fifteenth Amendment
raw materials
cottage industry
18. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
ninth amendment
free enterprise economy
Mayflower Compact
popular culture 'pop culture'
19. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
urban
Fifteenth Amendment
livstock
textile
20. Having to do with business
commercial
Gibbons vs. Ogden
nullify
Jefferson Davis
21. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
ninth amendment
Farewell Address
federalism
Marbury vs. Madison
22. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
civil disobedience
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Susan B Anothony
distribution
23. 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
autocracy
Daniel Webster
confined
24. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
militia
secondary sources
third amendment
King George III
25. Eli Whitney
theocracy
landlocked
The Declaration of Independence
Interchangeable Parts
26. Robert Fulton
adjacent
Steamboat
amend
grievance
27. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
militia
foreign policy
cultivation
significant
28. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
Steel Plow
free enterprise
The Great Compromise
29. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
Telegraph
resolution
direct representation
Marbury vs. Madison
30. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Bessemer Process
federalist
Mayflower Compact
raw materials
31. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
End of the American Revolution
separation of powers
Seperation of Powers
infectious disease
32. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
population density
The first shots of the American Revolution
finalcial resources
The Declaration of Independence
33. Improtant points in an event
distribution
milestones
James Madison
infected
34. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
Farewell Address
Telegraph
abolition
benjamin franklin
35. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
distribution
government bureaucracy
currency
First shot of Civil War
36. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Fourteenth Amendment
population boom
Battle of Saratoga
Proclamation of 1763
37. To obtain or receive
turmoil
acquire
Battle of Gettysburg
Common Sense
38. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
Thirteenth Amendment
absolute monarch
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Andrew Jackson
39. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
significant
autocracy
Samuel Adams
Bill of Rights
40. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
direct representation
provisions
Gettysburg Adress
Mexican Cession
41. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
Steel Plow
life expectancy
theocracy
First shot of Civil War
42. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
civil disobedience
mercantilism
abolition
Civil War
43. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
autocracy
consumer demand
federal
treason
44. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Jefferson Davis
Federalist Papers
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ulysses S grant
45. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
accusations
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
textile
popular soverignty
46. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
amend
federalism
raw materials
landlocked
47. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
economic status
Patrick Henry
The Declaration of Independence
Conord Massachusetts
48. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Seperation of Powers
The first shots of the American Revolution
free enterprise economy
secondary sources
49. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
The first shots of the American Revolution
direct representation
Battle of Gettysburg
market economy
50. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
Interchangeable Parts
turmoil
raw materials
Gibbons vs. Ogden
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