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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. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
draft
distribution
gross domestic product
Abraham Lincoln
2. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
direct representation
mercantilism
James Monroe
The Great Compromise
3. Abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
mercantilism
Fifteenth Amendment
The Constitution of the United States
4. Improtant points in an event
milestones
possessions
significant
Henry Clay
5. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
livstock
third amendment
cultivation
federalism
6. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
censorship
infected
amend
antifederalist
7. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
secondary sources
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
technological advances
antifederalist
8. The right to vote
John C. Calhoun
suffrage
free enterprise
abolition
9. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
Battle of Gettysburg
magna carta
significant
Tea Act
10. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
ninth amendment
primary sources
prospertiy
absolute monarch
11. 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
limited government
labor force
Proclamation of 1763
12. Is a cruel and unjust government
amend
tyranny
cottage industry
James Madison
13. To change
resolution
harsh
amend
mercantilism
14. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Navigation Acts
Frederick Douglas
legitmacy
confined
15. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
livstock
Jefferson Davis
Impeach
distribution
16. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
James Madison
population boom
export
King George III
17. Means to improve by vote
First shot of Civil War
Marbury vs. Madison
ratify
direct representation
18. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Democracy
militia
Robert E. Lee
livstock
19. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Tenth Amedment
John C. Calhoun
democratic republic
mercantilism
20. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
federalism
currency
Northwest Ordiance
Fourteenth Amendment
21. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
ninth amendment
nullification
command economy
censorship
22. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
suffrage
livstock
democratic republic
King George III
23. 'Father of the Constitution'
sixth amendment
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
James Madison
tyranny
24. Widespread hunger within a given region
turmoil
famine
efficiency
standard of living
25. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
accusations
federal
Samuel Adams
literacy rate
26. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Tea Act
First shot of Civil War
Thomas Jefferson
tariff
27. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
efficiency
draft
militia
Gibbons vs. Ogden
28. Led to the Boston Tea Party
free enterprise
President Thomas Jefferson
Tea Act
primary sources
29. 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.'
The Declaration of Independence
population boom
resolution
Patrick Henry
30. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Proclamation of 1763
accusations
Fourteenth Amendment
prospertiy
31. Changing iron into steal
Jefferson Davis
democratic republic
Bessemer Process
route
32. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
Judicial Review
efficiency
federalism
civil disobedience
33. Things that you own
Emancipation Proclamations
possessions
The first shots of the American Revolution
limited government
34. 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
technological advances
antifederalist
Proclamation of 1763
primary sources
35. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Northwest Ordiance
Cotton Gin
Civil War
36. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
state's rights
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
draft
significant
37. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Common Sense
tariff
migration
Battle of Saratoga
38. Not allowed
Mexican Cession
prohibited
Bessemer Process
Alexander Hamilton
39. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
labor force
per capita income
Daniel Webster
nullify
40. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
theocracy
Farewell Address
Bessemer Process
ratify
41. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
federalism
grievance
primary sources
42. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
Navigation Acts
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
urban
militia
43. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
abolition
infectious disease
foreign policy
Navigation Acts
44. 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
Civil War
technological advances
Alexander Hamilton
confined
45. Next to or beside
federalist
adjacent
The Great Compromise
third amendment
46. 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
Abraham Lincoln
End of the American Revolution
command economy
amend
47. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Mexican Cession
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Judicial Review
Civil War
48. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Harriet Tubman
raw materials
landlocked
federalism
49. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
Samuel Adams
geographical
literacy rate
direct representation
50. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
antifederalist
popular culture 'pop culture'
technological advances
James Monroe