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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. Is a cruel and unjust government
Treaty of Paris of 1763
ratify
tyranny
relevant
2. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
per capita income
livstock
Patrick Henry
abolition
3. 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.
consumer demand
nullification
sixth amendment
Northwest Ordiance
4. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
Jefferson Davis
nullification
distribution
federalist
5. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Harriet Tubman
Ulysses S grant
Conord Massachusetts
resolution
6. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
legitmacy
democratic republic
tariff
cottage industry
7. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
James Monroe
Mexican Cession
turmoil
Jamestown
8. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
Reaper
possessions
Navigation Acts
government bureaucracy
9. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
benjamin franklin
provisions
Civil War
tyranny
10. Compliantes againsts a person or state
End of the American Revolution
federalism
grievance
crossroads
11. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
economic status
Frederick Douglas
adjacent
subsistence economy
12. 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
Marbury vs. Madison
secede
prospertiy
ninth amendment
13. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
birthrate
gross domestic product
textile
subsistence economy
14. Means to improve by vote
raw materials
Bessemer Process
prospertiy
ratify
15. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
Cotton Gin
gross domestic product
prospertiy
Appomattox Curt House
16. 'Father of the Constitution'
James Madison
gross domestic product
militia
diversity
17. Next to or beside
government bureaucracy
Steel Plow
adjacent
raw materials
18. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
Fifteenth Amendment
population density
federalist
Seperation of Powers
19. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
separation of powers
suffrage
abolition
20. Important; of consequence
prospertiy
significant
tariff
Steamboat
21. 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
harsh
democratic republic
ninth amendment
22. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
draft
benjamin franklin
famine
urban
23. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
currency
unalienable right
theocracy
The Great Compromise
24. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
William Lloyd Garrison
Democracy
Steamboat
cottage industry
25. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
End of the American Revolution
militia
foreign policy
Jefferson Davis
26. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Democracy
federalism
Steel Plow
literacy rate
27. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
unalienable right
Mexican Cession
secondary sources
free enterprise economy
28. 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.'
migration
diplomatic relations
Patrick Henry
command economy
29. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
provisions
confined
Reaper
gross domestic product
30. Important to a certain event or topic
significant
Harriet Tubman
distribution
antifederalist
31. To change
Henry Clay
Treaty of Paris of 1763
The Great Compromise
amend
32. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
urban
nullify
Seperation of Powers
The Declaration of Independence
33. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
Judicial Review
Telegraph
Henry Clay
34. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Reaper
tyranny
market economy
Bill of Rights
35. The state of acting according to law; lawful
efficiency
King George III
legitmacy
cultivation
36. 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';
checks and balances
President Thomas Jefferson
Seperation of Powers
The Constitution of the United States
37. 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
Federalist Papers
End of the American Revolution
Thomas Jefferson
raw materials
38. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
market economy
technological advances
Steamboat
population growth
39. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
federalism
commader
treason
per capita income
40. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
magna carta
checks and balances
cottage industry
mercantilism
41. Things that you own
provisions
possessions
per capita income
Battle of Saratoga
42. Samuel Morse
infected
standard of living
Telegraph
Fourteenth Amendment
43. General of the confederate army
famine
Robert E. Lee
Bill of Rights
Thirteenth Amendment
44. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Telegraph
finalcial resources
Impeach
government bureaucracy
45. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Fifteenth Amendment
censorship
export
separation of powers
46. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
market economy
Samuel Adams
Ulysses S grant
population growth
47. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
Appomattox Curt House
federalism
commader
first amendment
48. Relationships that exsits between governments
ninth amendment
diplomatic relations
The Great Compromise
cultivation
49. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
commercial
Cotton Gin
raw materials
treason
50. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
antifederalist
direct representation
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Steel Plow