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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To contaminate or corup
Thomas Jefferson
Conord Massachusetts
infected
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
2. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
milestones
urban
censorship
separation of powers
3. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Harriet Tubman
currency
autocracy
Seperation of Powers
4. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
harsh
tariff
market economy
Conord Massachusetts
5. Having to do with business
Mayflower Compact
commercial
treason
separation of powers
6. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
per capita income
Harriet Tubman
significant
The Great Compromise
7. Changing iron into steal
Bessemer Process
First shot of Civil War
finalcial resources
adjacent
8. Realting to an event
King George III
relevant
secede
prospertiy
9. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
infectious disease
Common Sense
ninth amendment
free enterprise economy
10. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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11. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
secede
censorship
First shot of Civil War
acquire
12. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
rural
Bill of Rights
infectious disease
foreign policy
13. Relationships that exsits between governments
diplomatic relations
John C. Calhoun
milestones
theocracy
14. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Fourteenth Amendment
Impeach
President Thomas Jefferson
15. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
Tea Act
mercantilism
landlocked
foreign policy
16. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
economic status
End of the American Revolution
Fifteenth Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
17. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
possessions
relevant
Gibbons vs. Ogden
18. To withdraw or pull away
secede
significant
Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
19. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
population boom
legitmacy
currency
command economy
20. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
state's rights
draft
first amendment
Bill of Rights
21. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
Thirteenth Amendment
tariff
grievance
diversity
22. John Deere
technological advances
sixth amendment
Steel Plow
population boom
23. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
Bill of Rights
antifederalist
birthrate
sixth amendment
24. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
James Madison
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
prospertiy
25. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
abolition
relevant
antifederalist
Civil War
26. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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27. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
rural
popular soverignty
population growth
significant
28. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
checks and balances
John C. Calhoun
commercial
technological advances
29. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
literacy rate
Proclamation of 1763
James Monroe
textile
30. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
resolution
Battle of Gettysburg
state's rights
James Monroe
31. 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
diversity
Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton
acquire
32. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
Tenth Amedment
The Declaration of Independence
devastated
provisions
33. 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
absolute monarch
Robert E. Lee
government bureaucracy
34. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
grievance
Reaper
free enterprise
Farewell Address
35. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Fifteenth Amendment
federalism
distribution
secede
36. Living in a city
secede
urban
secondary sources
Common Sense
37. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
raw materials
abolition
Mexican Cession
famine
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)
Daniel Webster
grievance
treason
unalienable right
39. Means to improve by vote
amend
ratify
Emancipation Proclamations
infected
40. 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
benjamin franklin
federalism
checks and balances
Gettysburg Adress
41. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
population boom
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
foreign policy
suffrage
42. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Democracy
harsh
birthrate
government bureaucracy
43. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
Seperation of Powers
export
foreign policy
first amendment
44. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Farewell Address
geographical
Mexican Cession
federalism
45. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
unalienable right
Judicial Review
diplomatic relations
ninth amendment
46. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
turmoil
government bureaucracy
Conord Massachusetts
market economy
47. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
Susan B Anothony
federalism
distribution
Common Sense
48. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
legitmacy
free enterprise economy
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
49. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Jamestown
Common Sense
Reaper
labor force
50. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
literacy rate
John C. Calhoun
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Abraham Lincoln