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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 providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
free enterprise economy
limited government
subsistence economy
provisions
2. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
James Monroe
diplomatic relations
adjacent
literacy rate
3. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
milestones
First shot of Civil War
second amendment
accusations
4. Women's rights organizer
devastated
sixth amendment
Susan B Anothony
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
5. 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.'
Patrick Henry
landlocked
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
harsh
6. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglas
export
7. 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
famine
direct representation
economic status
8. Eli Whitney
Patrick Henry
possessions
government bureaucracy
Interchangeable Parts
9. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
diversity
population growth
unalienable right
10. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
second amendment
economic status
third amendment
draft
11. Compliantes againsts a person or state
John C. Calhoun
Navigation Acts
Andrew Jackson
grievance
12. General of the confederate army
Robert E. Lee
Treaty of Paris of 1763
commader
Impeach
13. 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
limited government
finalcial resources
textile
The Declaration of Independence
14. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
federalism
crossroads
labor force
finalcial resources
15. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Battle of Gettysburg
Reaper
Abraham Lincoln
Fourteenth Amendment
16. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
subsistence economy
second amendment
suffrage
Daniel Webster
17. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Fifteenth Amendment
Ulysses S grant
Alexander Hamilton
18. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
Harriet Tubman
per capita income
first amendment
geographical
19. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
efficiency
King George III
diversity
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
20. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
Mexican Cession
free enterprise
Gibbons vs. Ogden
nullify
21. To change
antifederalist
amend
Marbury vs. Madison
Harriet Tubman
22. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
federalism
harsh
secondary sources
Steel Plow
23. Important; of consequence
significant
raw materials
secondary sources
consumer demand
24. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
standard of living
livstock
Battle of Gettysburg
Mexican Cession
25. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
The first shots of the American Revolution
Federalist Papers
milestones
26. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
President Thomas Jefferson
Civil War
subsistence economy
Jamestown
27. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
benjamin franklin
confined
magna carta
Harriet Tubman
28. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
market economy
Cotton Gin
Frederick Douglas
confined
29. Relationships that exsits between governments
cultivation
route
diplomatic relations
Telegraph
30. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
diversity
Common Sense
Daniel Webster
Navigation Acts
31. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
nullify
Federalist Papers
export
raw materials
32. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
President Thomas Jefferson
John C. Calhoun
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
33. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
checks and balances
Henry Clay
secede
amend
34. Having to do with clothing
textile
Thomas Jefferson
amendment
Conord Massachusetts
35. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
treason
Marbury vs. Madison
sixth amendment
36. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
Mayflower Compact
Civil War
infectious disease
Robert E. Lee
37. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
nullification
government bureaucracy
Farewell Address
Treaty of Paris of 1763
38. To contaminate or corup
infected
foreign policy
migration
state's rights
39. Not allowed
cultivation
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
prohibited
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
40. Samuel Morse
Navigation Acts
Telegraph
economic status
devastated
41. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
Daniel Webster
legitmacy
population growth
gross domestic product
42. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
infectious disease
life expectancy
export
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
43. Led to the Boston Tea Party
raw materials
Tea Act
government bureaucracy
Common Sense
44. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
infectious disease
Steamboat
checks and balances
federal
45. Next to or beside
Navigation Acts
William Lloyd Garrison
adjacent
Robert E. Lee
46. 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
Alexander Hamilton
acquire
Farewell Address
distribution
47. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
sixth amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
theocracy
significant
48. Realting to an event
economic status
Gibbons vs. Ogden
James Monroe
relevant
49. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
federalist
provisions
Impeach
autocracy
50. 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
mercantilism
commader
Battle of Saratoga
King George III