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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 the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
civil disobedience
route
The Constitution of the United States
efficiency
2. The right to vote
rural
market economy
Samuel Adams
suffrage
3. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
Tenth Amedment
population growth
confined
theocracy
4. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
geographical
Jamestown
federalist
famine
5. Women's rights organizer
Impeach
tariff
Susan B Anothony
unalienable right
6. 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
Telegraph
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Northwest Ordiance
unalienable right
7. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
Appomattox Curt House
End of the American Revolution
subsistence economy
8. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
unalienable right
James Madison
Conord Massachusetts
accusations
9. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
King George III
cultivation
William Lloyd Garrison
market economy
10. Important; of consequence
significant
subsistence economy
life expectancy
third amendment
11. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
raw materials
rural
suffrage
population density
12. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Ulysses S grant
The Great Compromise
efficiency
geographical
13. To contaminate or corup
infected
free enterprise
ninth amendment
cultivation
14. 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
commader
unalienable right
per capita income
Alexander Hamilton
15. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Emancipation Proclamations
life expectancy
first amendment
suffrage
16. Living in a country
Proclamation of 1763
Democracy
End of the American Revolution
rural
17. Samuel Morse
theocracy
Telegraph
cottage industry
direct representation
18. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
autocracy
Harriet Tubman
landlocked
prospertiy
19. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
third amendment
geographical
foreign policy
Ulysses S grant
20. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Alexander Hamilton
Mayflower Compact
significant
Daniel Webster
21. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Farewell Address
Battle of Gettysburg
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
urban
22. The Supreme Court decision that rulled that the consitution gave contorl of interstate comerce to the U.S. congress not the individual states trhough whih a route passed
Jamestown
Fourteenth Amendment
Judicial Review
Gibbons vs. Ogden
23. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
Battle of Saratoga
labor force
democratic republic
The Declaration of Independence
24. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
government bureaucracy
federalism
efficiency
Treaty of Paris of 1763
25. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Steamboat
literacy rate
government bureaucracy
adjacent
26. 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
population boom
Abraham Lincoln
adjacent
27. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
prospertiy
Andrew Jackson
subsistence economy
diversity
28. Living in a city
legitmacy
prospertiy
first amendment
urban
29. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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30. 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
tariff
absolute monarch
prohibited
mercantilism
31. 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
harsh
James Monroe
per capita income
32. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
John C. Calhoun
adjacent
cultivation
population growth
33. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Jamestown
Conord Massachusetts
route
primary sources
34. John Deere
Civil War
Steel Plow
popular culture 'pop culture'
direct representation
35. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
Tea Act
subsistence economy
second amendment
Susan B Anothony
36. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
checks and balances
Navigation Acts
distribution
Treaty of Paris of 1763
37. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
federalism
militia
secede
38. Is a cruel and unjust government
state's rights
Civil War
Federalist Papers
tyranny
39. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
Impeach
tariff
Fifteenth Amendment
amendment
40. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
treason
Reaper
migration
suffrage
41. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S grant
livstock
Tenth Amedment
42. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Jefferson Davis
tariff
Proclamation of 1763
Democracy
43. Leader of the original democratic party and a 'president of the pople' he was also responsbible for the Trail of Tears - which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River
Alexander Hamilton
Patrick Henry
federalism
Andrew Jackson
44. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
Farewell Address
Civil War
milestones
finalcial resources
45. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
raw materials
theocracy
resolution
Navigation Acts
46. Next to or beside
per capita income
adjacent
command economy
End of the American Revolution
47. 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.
state's rights
theocracy
commader
sixth amendment
48. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
infectious disease
resolution
mercantilism
King George III
49. 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
popular soverignty
Gibbons vs. Ogden
confined
The Declaration of Independence
50. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
Robert E. Lee
Battle of Gettysburg
tariff
magna carta