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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Having to do with business
provisions
abolition
literacy rate
commercial
2. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
literacy rate
amend
Northwest Ordiance
popular soverignty
3. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Thirteenth Amendment
Robert E. Lee
Bill of Rights
Reaper
4. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
The Great Compromise
Treaty of Paris of 1763
checks and balances
unalienable right
5. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
infected
King George III
rural
democratic republic
6. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Reaper
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Robert E. Lee
population boom
7. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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8. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
Bill of Rights
absolute monarch
limited government
migration
9. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
currency
federalist
finalcial resources
labor force
10. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
Robert E. Lee
landlocked
market economy
Abraham Lincoln
11. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
population density
acquire
distribution
12. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
primary sources
textile
The Great Compromise
technological advances
13. Important to a certain event or topic
federal
checks and balances
significant
acquire
14. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
birthrate
separation of powers
possessions
autocracy
15. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Andrew Jackson
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
economic status
16. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Emancipation Proclamations
Conord Massachusetts
Democracy
magna carta
17. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Thomas Jefferson
Cotton Gin
Patrick Henry
Battle of Gettysburg
18. Righst that you can not surrender - sell or transer. they are a gift from the creator to the individual and can not under any circumstatnces be srurredned or taken (life - liberty - happiness)
direct representation
secondary sources
unalienable right
population boom
19. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
The first shots of the American Revolution
federal
Harriet Tubman
rural
20. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
prohibited
standard of living
direct representation
mercantilism
21. 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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22. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
famine
James Madison
commader
Appomattox Curt House
23. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
efficiency
federalist
confined
Susan B Anothony
24. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
Bessemer Process
benjamin franklin
federalism
25. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
Common Sense
popular soverignty
draft
finalcial resources
26. A point at which an important decision must be made
Harriet Tubman
democratic republic
crossroads
Battle of Gettysburg
27. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
The first shots of the American Revolution
unalienable right
magna carta
Mexican Cession
28. 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
primary sources
Fourteenth Amendment
significant
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
29. Means to improve by vote
standard of living
Proclamation of 1763
currency
ratify
30. Robert Fulton
Ulysses S grant
Bessemer Process
Steamboat
population boom
31. Leader of the original democratic party and a 'president of the pople' he was also responsbible for the Trail of Tears - which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River
amend
gross domestic product
abolition
Andrew Jackson
32. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Tea Act
Telegraph
Battle of Saratoga
devastated
33. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
diversity
Seperation of Powers
Federalist Papers
Gettysburg Adress
34. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
acquire
Appomattox Curt House
civil disobedience
35. Not allowed
Impeach
John C. Calhoun
Telegraph
prohibited
36. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
infectious disease
Bill of Rights
cultivation
Farewell Address
37. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
life expectancy
Seperation of Powers
command economy
unalienable right
38. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
geographical
Impeach
Mayflower Compact
consumer demand
39. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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40. 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.'
cultivation
Patrick Henry
Northwest Ordiance
popular soverignty
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
Northwest Ordiance
sixth amendment
John C. Calhoun
Seperation of Powers
42. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Bessemer Process
life expectancy
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Mexican Cession
43. The british defeat at Yorktown - Virgina by George Washingtown's troops singaled the end of the american revolution. accepted the surrrender of the main british army under Cronwallis
foreign policy
government bureaucracy
End of the American Revolution
Patrick Henry
44. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
Telegraph
prospertiy
First shot of Civil War
export
45. Women's rights organizer
Susan B Anothony
state's rights
cottage industry
infectious disease
46. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
unalienable right
possessions
The Great Compromise
amendment
47. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Andrew Jackson
federalism
Samuel Adams
second amendment
48. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
Thomas Jefferson
acquire
militia
subsistence economy
49. 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
Steel Plow
Patrick Henry
Northwest Ordiance
50. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
antifederalist
Tenth Amedment
first amendment
economic status
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