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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. Realting to an event
Civil War
relevant
Impeach
sixth amendment
2. 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
gross domestic product
Daniel Webster
primary sources
Battle of Gettysburg
3. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
James Monroe
secondary sources
Proclamation of 1763
4. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
The Constitution of the United States
William Lloyd Garrison
antifederalist
Henry Clay
5. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
The Constitution of the United States
Henry Clay
significant
First shot of Civil War
6. Important to a certain event or topic
confined
secede
federal
significant
7. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
grievance
birthrate
Common Sense
migration
8. Relationships that exsits between governments
Thomas Jefferson
diplomatic relations
popular culture 'pop culture'
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
9. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
geographical
resolution
federalism
finalcial resources
10. 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
adjacent
federalism
milestones
The Declaration of Independence
11. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
significant
popular soverignty
amend
government bureaucracy
12. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
King George III
diversity
Battle of Saratoga
First shot of Civil War
13. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Reaper
democratic republic
textile
free enterprise
14. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
birthrate
market economy
ratify
Impeach
15. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
treason
magna carta
livstock
Treaty of Paris of 1763
16. Ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America; ended the American Revolution and foreced Britian to recginze the United States as an idependent Nations
Appomattox Curt House
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Battle of Saratoga
ninth amendment
17. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
landlocked
Navigation Acts
nullify
separation of powers
18. The constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to counsel - the right to confront witnesses - and the right to a speedy and public trial.
sixth amendment
Impeach
suffrage
Andrew Jackson
19. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
Henry Clay
The Constitution of the United States
life expectancy
adjacent
20. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
currency
second amendment
Thomas Jefferson
21. 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';
abolition
market economy
The Constitution of the United States
route
22. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
Appomattox Curt House
amendment
militia
first amendment
23. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
prospertiy
Tenth Amedment
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
cultivation
24. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
autocracy
second amendment
draft
significant
25. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Appomattox Curt House
distribution
free enterprise economy
26. Led to the Boston Tea Party
amend
Tea Act
migration
government bureaucracy
27. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
market economy
federalism
prohibited
28. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
foreign policy
Tenth Amedment
cultivation
absolute monarch
29. Samuel Morse
Marbury vs. Madison
civil disobedience
famine
Telegraph
30. To change
urban
amend
Interchangeable Parts
federalism
31. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Steel Plow
first amendment
devastated
The Great Compromise
32. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
ratify
mercantilism
livstock
second amendment
33. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
secede
free enterprise
abolition
militia
34. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
provisions
cottage industry
tyranny
distribution
35. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
finalcial resources
urban
raw materials
Conord Massachusetts
36. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
route
Common Sense
federalism
autocracy
37. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
suffrage
prospertiy
life expectancy
direct representation
38. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Susan B Anothony
milestones
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Battle of Gettysburg
39. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
tyranny
grievance
Abraham Lincoln
secondary sources
40. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
Jamestown
confined
Samuel Adams
Judicial Review
41. To be compeletly destroyed
provisions
President Thomas Jefferson
militia
devastated
42. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Democracy
Susan B Anothony
Harriet Tubman
literacy rate
43. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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44. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
efficiency
population growth
James Madison
Mexican Cession
45. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
benjamin franklin
The Great Compromise
tariff
unalienable right
46. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
Northwest Ordiance
command economy
suffrage
free enterprise economy
47. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
government bureaucracy
standard of living
gross domestic product
Cotton Gin
48. Improtant points in an event
migration
Frederick Douglas
export
milestones
49. 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)
acquire
popular culture 'pop culture'
consumer demand
distribution
50. Means to improve by vote
mercantilism
Tea Act
ratify
absolute monarch