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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
censorship
Treaty of Paris of 1763
ninth amendment
Marbury vs. Madison
2. 'Father of the Constitution'
James Madison
milestones
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Marbury vs. Madison
3. 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';
Thirteenth Amendment
The Constitution of the United States
Cotton Gin
Northwest Ordiance
4. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
gross domestic product
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Fourteenth Amendment
Andrew Jackson
5. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
geographical
literacy rate
relevant
government bureaucracy
6. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Andrew Jackson
absolute monarch
Proclamation of 1763
commader
7. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Fifteenth Amendment
Daniel Webster
commercial
mercantilism
8. 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
cultivation
Common Sense
mercantilism
The Declaration of Independence
9. 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.
abolition
Thirteenth Amendment
John C. Calhoun
sixth amendment
10. Living in a city
subsistence economy
urban
state's rights
labor force
11. John Deere
The Declaration of Independence
Steel Plow
Telegraph
economic status
12. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Marbury vs. Madison
unalienable right
Federalist Papers
Jamestown
13. 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)
consumer demand
direct representation
federalism
significant
14. 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
End of the American Revolution
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S grant
Tenth Amedment
15. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
resolution
Mexican Cession
ratify
John C. Calhoun
16. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Proclamation of 1763
Treaty of Paris of 1763
milestones
Tea Act
17. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
magna carta
Fourteenth Amendment
Bessemer Process
Susan B Anothony
18. 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
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19. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
birthrate
tariff
secondary sources
turmoil
20. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
Alexander Hamilton
infectious disease
federalism
21. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
antifederalist
Abraham Lincoln
draft
federal
22. Not allowed
Telegraph
milestones
prohibited
popular soverignty
23. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
gross domestic product
command economy
James Madison
Frederick Douglas
24. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
prospertiy
Henry Clay
antifederalist
population density
25. Widespread hunger within a given region
famine
Jamestown
Farewell Address
Susan B Anothony
26. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
limited government
Abraham Lincoln
Cotton Gin
Steel Plow
27. 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
Navigation Acts
Northwest Ordiance
significant
King George III
28. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
democratic republic
Tenth Amedment
distribution
James Monroe
29. 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
separation of powers
first amendment
diversity
Gibbons vs. Ogden
30. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Battle of Gettysburg
mercantilism
Northwest Ordiance
draft
31. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
Thomas Jefferson
government bureaucracy
direct representation
population growth
32. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
secede
Interchangeable Parts
William Lloyd Garrison
Thomas Jefferson
33. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
militia
Gettysburg Adress
per capita income
export
34. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
draft
state's rights
population density
geographical
35. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
textile
Alexander Hamilton
Democracy
The Declaration of Independence
36. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
Fifteenth Amendment
devastated
First shot of Civil War
gross domestic product
37. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
infectious disease
state's rights
first amendment
John C. Calhoun
38. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
amend
rural
subsistence economy
Henry Clay
39. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
Proclamation of 1763
market economy
infected
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
40. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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41. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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42. Improtant points in an event
Steamboat
Andrew Jackson
second amendment
milestones
43. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
Alexander Hamilton
First shot of Civil War
turmoil
subsistence economy
44. Changing iron into steal
relevant
militia
Emancipation Proclamations
Bessemer Process
45. Moving from one place to antoher
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
migration
The Declaration of Independence
The first shots of the American Revolution
46. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
urban
cottage industry
Henry Clay
Bessemer Process
47. Means to improve by vote
subsistence economy
End of the American Revolution
ratify
James Monroe
48. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
consumer demand
Robert E. Lee
efficiency
Jamestown
49. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
state's rights
life expectancy
provisions
Democracy
50. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Interchangeable Parts
Robert E. Lee
Appomattox Curt House
autocracy