SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
taks
,
humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
acquire
Appomattox Curt House
cultivation
democratic republic
2. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
accusations
First shot of Civil War
antifederalist
popular culture 'pop culture'
3. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
migration
treason
mercantilism
subsistence economy
4. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
route
Seperation of Powers
command economy
subsistence economy
5. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
sixth amendment
ratify
second amendment
infected
6. To obtain or receive
Andrew Jackson
The Constitution of the United States
acquire
End of the American Revolution
7. 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
distribution
Northwest Ordiance
technological advances
Impeach
8. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
Samuel Adams
accusations
harsh
Judicial Review
9. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
command economy
Andrew Jackson
federalist
gross domestic product
10. 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
infected
Battle of Gettysburg
distribution
11. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
Treaty of Paris of 1763
livstock
checks and balances
distribution
12. The state of acting according to law; lawful
finalcial resources
legitmacy
End of the American Revolution
Proclamation of 1763
13. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
provisions
market economy
harsh
secondary sources
14. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
landlocked
government bureaucracy
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
finalcial resources
15. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
federalism
treason
Ulysses S grant
Cotton Gin
16. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
landlocked
possessions
birthrate
mercantilism
17. General of the confederate army
Proclamation of 1763
Robert E. Lee
acquire
technological advances
18. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
John C. Calhoun
direct representation
tyranny
19. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
Treaty of Paris of 1763
per capita income
federalism
benjamin franklin
20. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
The first shots of the American Revolution
Battle of Saratoga
nullify
relevant
21. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
The Declaration of Independence
economic status
separation of powers
livstock
22. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
commader
Steel Plow
benjamin franklin
Frederick Douglas
23. Living in a country
rural
militia
Gettysburg Adress
landlocked
24. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
harsh
popular soverignty
theocracy
Mayflower Compact
25. Things that you own
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
John C. Calhoun
Steel Plow
possessions
26. Economic theory that a country's strength is measured by the amount of gold it has that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the the Mother Country
population boom
Patrick Henry
Appomattox Curt House
mercantilism
27. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
popular soverignty
prospertiy
confined
Navigation Acts
28. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
free enterprise economy
infected
technological advances
First shot of Civil War
29. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
The Great Compromise
treason
End of the American Revolution
William Lloyd Garrison
30. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
economic status
finalcial resources
suffrage
31. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
draft
Steel Plow
Thomas Jefferson
Gibbons vs. Ogden
32. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
crossroads
ninth amendment
Seperation of Powers
population density
33. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
End of the American Revolution
Bill of Rights
Conord Massachusetts
34. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
raw materials
John C. Calhoun
federalism
government bureaucracy
35. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
state's rights
population density
censorship
nullification
36. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
King George III
Civil War
absolute monarch
Interchangeable Parts
37. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
Jefferson Davis
Proclamation of 1763
relevant
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
38. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
civil disobedience
infected
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Abraham Lincoln
39. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
Robert E. Lee
Henry Clay
Mayflower Compact
censorship
40. 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';
population density
government bureaucracy
The Constitution of the United States
Robert E. Lee
41. 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.'
End of the American Revolution
Patrick Henry
labor force
separation of powers
42. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
currency
sixth amendment
Abraham Lincoln
tariff
43. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
John C. Calhoun
crossroads
democratic republic
export
44. Next to or beside
amend
adjacent
diversity
Bessemer Process
45. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
gross domestic product
Bessemer Process
limited government
turmoil
46. 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
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
47. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Frederick Douglas
treason
Farewell Address
significant
48. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
limited government
sixth amendment
cottage industry
Telegraph
49. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
accusations
commercial
Harriet Tubman
The Great Compromise
50. 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
Henry Clay
Seperation of Powers
The Declaration of Independence
infectious disease