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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Women's rights organizer
popular soverignty
Susan B Anothony
Conord Massachusetts
Emancipation Proclamations
2. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Seperation of Powers
The Great Compromise
famine
militia
3. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
federalist
Battle of Gettysburg
subsistence economy
landlocked
4. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Treaty of Paris of 1763
legitmacy
Mexican Cession
Samuel Adams
5. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
urban
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
The Constitution of the United States
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
6. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
adjacent
Fourteenth Amendment
Gettysburg Adress
market economy
7. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
absolute monarch
per capita income
Federalist Papers
infectious disease
8. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
militia
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
command economy
Henry Clay
9. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
provisions
first amendment
tariff
urban
10. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Bessemer Process
Federalist Papers
tyranny
Judicial Review
11. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
population boom
Gettysburg Adress
Jefferson Davis
economic status
12. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
autocracy
turmoil
Tenth Amedment
Common Sense
13. John Deere
Steel Plow
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
geographical
amend
14. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
confined
consumer demand
accusations
James Madison
15. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
draft
foreign policy
significant
Battle of Saratoga
16. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
livstock
adjacent
sixth amendment
efficiency
17. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
commercial
life expectancy
limited government
suffrage
18. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
milestones
autocracy
free enterprise
sixth amendment
19. Realting to an event
urban
nullification
relevant
ratify
20. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
Alexander Hamilton
Democracy
theocracy
James Monroe
21. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
Bessemer Process
geographical
abolition
subsistence economy
22. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
federalism
federal
harsh
gross domestic product
23. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
grievance
acquire
raw materials
24. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Harriet Tubman
Jamestown
President Thomas Jefferson
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
25. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
Farewell Address
ratify
subsistence economy
End of the American Revolution
26. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
route
nullify
President Thomas Jefferson
nullification
27. Important to a certain event or topic
theocracy
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
significant
efficiency
28. Important; of consequence
Gibbons vs. Ogden
population density
foreign policy
significant
29. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
market economy
militia
ratify
population growth
30. 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
prohibited
Marbury vs. Madison
democratic republic
Thomas Jefferson
31. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
benjamin franklin
per capita income
turmoil
Interchangeable Parts
32. Short speech given by Abrahman Lincoln to dedicate a cemetry for soliders who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is considered a profound statement of American ideals. Four score and seven years ago - our fathers....and that governemtn of the peopl
acquire
Gettysburg Adress
market economy
Patrick Henry
33. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
command economy
Impeach
federal
standard of living
34. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
secondary sources
Impeach
labor force
efficiency
35. 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
Andrew Jackson
literacy rate
Frederick Douglas
36. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Fourteenth Amendment
ninth amendment
Ulysses S grant
Henry Clay
37. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
Gettysburg Adress
tyranny
technological advances
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
38. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
President Thomas Jefferson
Proclamation of 1763
Susan B Anothony
significant
39. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
treason
Marbury vs. Madison
currency
amendment
40. 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)
Tenth Amedment
primary sources
consumer demand
infectious disease
41. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
absolute monarch
ninth amendment
technological advances
Seperation of Powers
42. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
Fifteenth Amendment
checks and balances
Democracy
government bureaucracy
43. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
diversity
democratic republic
popular soverignty
standard of living
44. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
secede
geographical
currency
Emancipation Proclamations
45. 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
Common Sense
End of the American Revolution
Steamboat
William Lloyd Garrison
46. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
theocracy
Jamestown
primary sources
federalist
47. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Conord Massachusetts
secondary sources
autocracy
grievance
48. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
sixth amendment
Tea Act
magna carta
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
49. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
relevant
federalism
censorship
raw materials
50. Robert Fulton
Steamboat
Bessemer Process
Tea Act
sixth amendment
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