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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. Women's rights organizer
geographical
currency
Susan B Anothony
crossroads
2. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
autocracy
democratic republic
currency
End of the American Revolution
3. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
checks and balances
civil disobedience
Impeach
Frederick Douglas
4. Led to the Boston Tea Party
The Declaration of Independence
state's rights
Tea Act
second amendment
5. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
diversity
third amendment
federalist
Marbury vs. Madison
6. Is a cruel and unjust government
limited government
Patrick Henry
free enterprise economy
tyranny
7. To be compeletly destroyed
Northwest Ordiance
devastated
literacy rate
route
8. To withdraw or pull away
federalist
secede
Emancipation Proclamations
labor force
9. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Ulysses S grant
abolition
Proclamation of 1763
magna carta
10. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
Reaper
market economy
James Monroe
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
11. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Mexican Cession
Appomattox Curt House
Federalist Papers
Samuel Adams
12. 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)
theocracy
Marbury vs. Madison
unalienable right
prospertiy
13. Having to do with business
secondary sources
commercial
Gibbons vs. Ogden
President Thomas Jefferson
14. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
Steel Plow
relevant
livstock
Farewell Address
15. Important; of consequence
significant
livstock
The first shots of the American Revolution
The Constitution of the United States
16. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
Impeach
separation of powers
James Monroe
foreign policy
17. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
population boom
accusations
third amendment
Ulysses S grant
18. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
treason
milestones
Daniel Webster
19. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
consumer demand
textile
Emancipation Proclamations
Impeach
20. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
federalism
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Seperation of Powers
per capita income
21. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
birthrate
amendment
First shot of Civil War
Mayflower Compact
22. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
accusations
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
diplomatic relations
checks and balances
23. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
popular soverignty
William Lloyd Garrison
Marbury vs. Madison
command economy
24. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
federalism
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Fourteenth Amendment
Farewell Address
25. 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
Robert E. Lee
Northwest Ordiance
route
amendment
26. Realting to an event
subsistence economy
Appomattox Curt House
relevant
secondary sources
27. Abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
devastated
Federalist Papers
Tenth Amedment
28. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
absolute monarch
theocracy
Samuel Adams
Fourteenth Amendment
29. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
federalist
landlocked
abolition
per capita income
30. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
crossroads
direct representation
state's rights
government bureaucracy
31. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
President Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Democracy
antifederalist
32. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
urban
Bessemer Process
Democracy
33. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
theocracy
Farewell Address
Frederick Douglas
Bill of Rights
34. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
35. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
government bureaucracy
confined
migration
theocracy
36. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Judicial Review
famine
separation of powers
Reaper
37. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
export
third amendment
landlocked
Bessemer Process
38. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
consumer demand
Civil War
relevant
federalism
39. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
literacy rate
mercantilism
Battle of Gettysburg
Fourteenth Amendment
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.'
Patrick Henry
John C. Calhoun
milestones
government bureaucracy
41. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
legitmacy
Reaper
currency
Mexican Cession
42. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
autocracy
export
federalist
43. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
raw materials
Proclamation of 1763
Jamestown
John C. Calhoun
44. Changing iron into steal
accusations
Bessemer Process
labor force
significant
45. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
commader
labor force
technological advances
Tenth Amedment
46. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
federalism
Tea Act
standard of living
47. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
cultivation
diversity
famine
resolution
48. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
milestones
famine
First shot of Civil War
federalism
49. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
censorship
Thirteenth Amendment
Impeach
state's rights
50. Not allowed
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
prohibited
rural
Samuel Adams