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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. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
confined
Frederick Douglas
direct representation
famine
2. To obtain or receive
acquire
Susan B Anothony
command economy
labor force
3. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Federalist Papers
Reaper
Battle of Gettysburg
James Madison
4. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
ninth amendment
adjacent
Marbury vs. Madison
landlocked
5. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
Battle of Gettysburg
famine
Mayflower Compact
cottage industry
6. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
antifederalist
The Great Compromise
Proclamation of 1763
livstock
7. To contaminate or corup
Harriet Tubman
infected
King George III
turmoil
8. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Bessemer Process
landlocked
Frederick Douglas
Thomas Jefferson
9. Living in a country
rural
King George III
relevant
Farewell Address
10. Robert Fulton
limited government
federalism
Steamboat
First shot of Civil War
11. Having to do with clothing
textile
treason
tariff
infected
12. 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
Daniel Webster
Alexander Hamilton
benjamin franklin
mercantilism
13. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
popular soverignty
harsh
federalism
theocracy
14. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
theocracy
antifederalist
civil disobedience
James Madison
15. Stated that - 'no state..can lawfully get out of the Union..' bt pledged there would be no war unless the South started it - was ment to hlep heal and resore the country after four years of the Civil War
16. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
devastated
standard of living
President Thomas Jefferson
17. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
Andrew Jackson
cottage industry
geographical
Gettysburg Adress
18. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
consumer demand
Impeach
gross domestic product
19. Important to a certain event or topic
Impeach
significant
gross domestic product
secondary sources
20. 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
treason
limited government
Telegraph
Alexander Hamilton
21. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
22. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
second amendment
Common Sense
third amendment
Treaty of Paris of 1763
23. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
popular culture 'pop culture'
John C. Calhoun
Cotton Gin
The Great Compromise
24. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
Frederick Douglas
amendment
confined
per capita income
25. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
finalcial resources
crossroads
First shot of Civil War
free enterprise economy
26. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
27. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Robert E. Lee
milestones
Thirteenth Amendment
The first shots of the American Revolution
28. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
state's rights
Battle of Gettysburg
Robert E. Lee
nullification
29. Relationships that exsits between governments
Tea Act
amendment
diversity
diplomatic relations
30. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
President Thomas Jefferson
Proclamation of 1763
Cotton Gin
Gettysburg Adress
31. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
separation of powers
Jamestown
ninth amendment
32. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
Northwest Ordiance
limited government
diversity
cultivation
33. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Battle of Gettysburg
Samuel Adams
government bureaucracy
textile
34. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
absolute monarch
Harriet Tubman
Henry Clay
Conord Massachusetts
35. 'Father of the Constitution'
Fourteenth Amendment
James Madison
significant
direct representation
36. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
economic status
democratic republic
William Lloyd Garrison
The Constitution of the United States
37. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
famine
export
Farewell Address
currency
38. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Democracy
Battle of Gettysburg
foreign policy
Federalist Papers
39. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Bessemer Process
The Great Compromise
Reaper
40. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
currency
foreign policy
Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
41. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
draft
landlocked
command economy
foreign policy
42. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
nullify
life expectancy
The first shots of the American Revolution
unalienable right
43. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Battle of Gettysburg
resolution
export
per capita income
44. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
Thirteenth Amendment
third amendment
amend
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
45. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
free enterprise economy
acquire
infectious disease
commader
46. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
state's rights
adjacent
abolition
Thirteenth Amendment
47. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
third amendment
cottage industry
Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
48. A point at which an important decision must be made
crossroads
Emancipation Proclamations
confined
distribution
49. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
suffrage
export
consumer demand
population density
50. Important; of consequence
literacy rate
significant
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
limited government