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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. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
separation of powers
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Calhoun
Thomas Jefferson
2. Compliantes againsts a person or state
grievance
King George III
Samuel Adams
commercial
3. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
Navigation Acts
autocracy
prohibited
primary sources
4. To contaminate or corup
Gibbons vs. Ogden
infected
Navigation Acts
cottage industry
5. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
limited government
famine
The first shots of the American Revolution
Tea Act
6. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
confined
antifederalist
Mayflower Compact
route
7. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
federalist
Abraham Lincoln
route
Marbury vs. Madison
8. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
The Great Compromise
resolution
Henry Clay
Farewell Address
9. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
popular soverignty
confined
Ulysses S grant
government bureaucracy
10. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
Tea Act
tyranny
censorship
John C. Calhoun
11. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Appomattox Curt House
first amendment
relevant
12. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Gibbons vs. Ogden
prospertiy
Reaper
democratic republic
13. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
consumer demand
benjamin franklin
federalism
commercial
14. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
foreign policy
subsistence economy
Robert E. Lee
rural
15. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Thirteenth Amendment
Tenth Amedment
Jamestown
Fourteenth Amendment
16. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
Frederick Douglas
treason
benjamin franklin
export
17. Living in a country
migration
rural
civil disobedience
labor force
18. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
cottage industry
popular culture 'pop culture'
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Treaty of Paris of 1763
19. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
devastated
finalcial resources
Thomas Jefferson
John C. Calhoun
20. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
second amendment
civil disobedience
treason
21. To withdraw or pull away
Farewell Address
secede
Marbury vs. Madison
Steel Plow
22. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
urban
Democracy
censorship
efficiency
23. Changing iron into steal
provisions
Bessemer Process
limited government
Seperation of Powers
24. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
export
federalism
nullification
textile
25. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
John C. Calhoun
grievance
abolition
confined
26. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Judicial Review
John C. Calhoun
Ulysses S grant
Andrew Jackson
27. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
cultivation
milestones
Emancipation Proclamations
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
28. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
birthrate
Marbury vs. Madison
subsistence economy
popular culture 'pop culture'
29. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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30. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
commercial
Bessemer Process
prohibited
Frederick Douglas
31. To obtain or receive
Navigation Acts
magna carta
acquire
population growth
32. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
turmoil
Robert E. Lee
literacy rate
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
33. 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
unalienable right
Navigation Acts
grievance
Treaty of Paris of 1763
34. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
militia
consumer demand
geographical
Proclamation of 1763
35. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
commercial
Democracy
cottage industry
popular soverignty
36. 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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37. 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
autocracy
Marbury vs. Madison
currency
commercial
38. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
direct representation
prohibited
tyranny
39. Means to improve by vote
relevant
The Great Compromise
ratify
militia
40. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
democratic republic
Tenth Amedment
Gibbons vs. Ogden
41. Established a system of setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the UNion. its consitution had to provide for a representative governemnt and ithad to prohibit slavery
devastated
Northwest Ordiance
currency
Navigation Acts
42. Having to do with clothing
textile
Harriet Tubman
Conord Massachusetts
checks and balances
43. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Cotton Gin
legitmacy
confined
nullify
44. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
censorship
absolute monarch
currency
technological advances
45. Important to a certain event or topic
rural
Marbury vs. Madison
significant
magna carta
46. 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)
federalism
consumer demand
Daniel Webster
free enterprise
47. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
Thirteenth Amendment
James Madison
secede
48. 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';
End of the American Revolution
Gibbons vs. Ogden
population boom
The Constitution of the United States
49. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
The first shots of the American Revolution
ninth amendment
free enterprise economy
diplomatic relations
50. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
Henry Clay
accusations
civil disobedience
Tea Act