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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. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
nullification
Impeach
Ulysses S grant
infected
2. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Henry Clay
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
per capita income
economic status
3. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
population boom
Robert E. Lee
migration
autocracy
4. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Seperation of Powers
tyranny
third amendment
Battle of Saratoga
5. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Samuel Adams
Jamestown
efficiency
cottage industry
6. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
separation of powers
livstock
Harriet Tubman
economic status
7. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
tyranny
commercial
command economy
population density
8. 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
Bill of Rights
harsh
Marbury vs. Madison
Federalist Papers
9. 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)
Harriet Tubman
Bessemer Process
consumer demand
nullification
10. 'Father of the Constitution'
consumer demand
James Madison
amend
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
11. Important to a certain event or topic
rural
Impeach
Tea Act
significant
12. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
amendment
Navigation Acts
Frederick Douglas
significant
13. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
labor force
secondary sources
magna carta
gross domestic product
14. Having to do with clothing
textile
popular culture 'pop culture'
John C. Calhoun
checks and balances
15. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
President Thomas Jefferson
Jamestown
Samuel Adams
Andrew Jackson
16. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Battle of Gettysburg
Jamestown
devastated
amend
17. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
landlocked
finalcial resources
Jamestown
secede
18. The state of acting according to law; lawful
second amendment
legitmacy
Reaper
popular culture 'pop culture'
19. 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
Proclamation of 1763
famine
federal
20. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
accusations
Abraham Lincoln
James Monroe
President Thomas Jefferson
21. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Frederick Douglas
unalienable right
End of the American Revolution
Emancipation Proclamations
22. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
commercial
Abraham Lincoln
23. Compliantes againsts a person or state
subsistence economy
Impeach
harsh
grievance
24. 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
Proclamation of 1763
turmoil
John C. Calhoun
Alexander Hamilton
25. 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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26. John Deere
democratic republic
Steel Plow
Marbury vs. Madison
turmoil
27. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Thomas Jefferson
Cotton Gin
Marbury vs. Madison
Civil War
28. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
birthrate
nullify
democratic republic
labor force
29. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
first amendment
population density
suffrage
prospertiy
30. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
King George III
censorship
grievance
prohibited
31. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Democracy
currency
Steel Plow
Fourteenth Amendment
32. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
diversity
Democracy
government bureaucracy
resolution
33. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
Common Sense
mercantilism
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
militia
34. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
raw materials
Harriet Tubman
Bessemer Process
population density
35. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
The Great Compromise
Conord Massachusetts
tariff
John C. Calhoun
36. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
Abraham Lincoln
prospertiy
tariff
secondary sources
37. Abolished slavery
treason
cottage industry
Thirteenth Amendment
magna carta
38. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
confined
separation of powers
democratic republic
39. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Jamestown
secede
urban
Common Sense
40. To change
federalist
Fifteenth Amendment
amend
treason
41. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
third amendment
Navigation Acts
labor force
popular culture 'pop culture'
42. 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';
mercantilism
labor force
The Constitution of the United States
efficiency
43. Relationships that exsits between governments
Treaty of Paris of 1763
provisions
Jamestown
diplomatic relations
44. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
nullify
Bill of Rights
Fifteenth Amendment
The Constitution of the United States
45. Living in a country
rural
infectious disease
separation of powers
commercial
46. To obtain or receive
Thomas Jefferson
acquire
suffrage
federalism
47. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
nullify
confined
Harriet Tubman
abolition
48. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
literacy rate
route
subsistence economy
accusations
49. Next to or beside
adjacent
Patrick Henry
Gibbons vs. Ogden
President Thomas Jefferson
50. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
first amendment
separation of powers
treason
landlocked