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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. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Cotton Gin
cottage industry
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
2. 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)
consumer demand
Democracy
Impeach
textile
3. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
James Monroe
cultivation
accusations
Patrick Henry
4. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
federalism
Tenth Amedment
Gibbons vs. Ogden
End of the American Revolution
5. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
limited government
life expectancy
famine
Henry Clay
6. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
significant
Democracy
resolution
militia
7. Women's rights organizer
resolution
state's rights
significant
Susan B Anothony
8. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
famine
Conord Massachusetts
birthrate
livstock
9. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
popular soverignty
Federalist Papers
Susan B Anothony
federal
10. The state of acting according to law; lawful
diplomatic relations
literacy rate
famine
legitmacy
11. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
harsh
Steamboat
nullify
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
12. Having to do with business
prohibited
commercial
urban
William Lloyd Garrison
13. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Fifteenth Amendment
sixth amendment
Jefferson Davis
Steel Plow
14. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
John C. Calhoun
adjacent
diversity
Interchangeable Parts
15. Living in a country
Bessemer Process
secondary sources
rural
Navigation Acts
16. Led to the Boston Tea Party
federalist
Tea Act
acquire
Jamestown
17. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
Conord Massachusetts
federalist
theocracy
18. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Judicial Review
Steel Plow
Seperation of Powers
unalienable right
19. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
federalist
federalism
free enterprise
labor force
20. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
Fourteenth Amendment
militia
separation of powers
commader
21. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Bill of Rights
per capita income
population growth
cultivation
22. The right to vote
Susan B Anothony
devastated
suffrage
free enterprise
23. Relationships that exsits between governments
infectious disease
diplomatic relations
Interchangeable Parts
suffrage
24. Living in a city
devastated
Reaper
confined
urban
25. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
provisions
checks and balances
command economy
mercantilism
26. To contaminate or corup
Telegraph
milestones
infected
market economy
27. A point at which an important decision must be made
Samuel Adams
crossroads
Mayflower Compact
confined
28. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Telegraph
Farewell Address
acquire
Impeach
29. 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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30. Means to improve by vote
relevant
censorship
Andrew Jackson
ratify
31. Improtant points in an event
provisions
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
milestones
government bureaucracy
32. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
Steamboat
Mayflower Compact
Bill of Rights
33. 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
cultivation
Marbury vs. Madison
benjamin franklin
Fourteenth Amendment
34. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
economic status
Battle of Saratoga
command economy
William Lloyd Garrison
35. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
The first shots of the American Revolution
migration
President Thomas Jefferson
amendment
36. 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
devastated
Federalist Papers
command economy
Battle of Gettysburg
37. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Common Sense
democratic republic
Reaper
legitmacy
38. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
economic status
distribution
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
nullification
39. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
Navigation Acts
First shot of Civil War
export
Bill of Rights
40. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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41. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
harsh
Jamestown
tyranny
federalism
42. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
significant
unalienable right
commader
separation of powers
43. Original records of an event - they incldue eyewitness reports created at the time of an event speeches - and letters by people involved in the event - photographs and artifacts
limited government
primary sources
free enterprise economy
rural
44. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
finalcial resources
Telegraph
direct representation
Battle of Saratoga
45. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
nullification
Gibbons vs. Ogden
James Monroe
The first shots of the American Revolution
46. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
labor force
state's rights
federal
export
47. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
migration
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Susan B Anothony
devastated
48. The Supreme Court decision that rulled that the consitution gave contorl of interstate comerce to the U.S. congress not the individual states trhough whih a route passed
Gibbons vs. Ogden
population growth
ninth amendment
textile
49. 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.'
possessions
suffrage
tariff
Patrick Henry
50. Widespread hunger within a given region
cottage industry
famine
mercantilism
The Constitution of the United States