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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. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Appomattox Curt House
acquire
Cotton Gin
accusations
2. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
censorship
Interchangeable Parts
benjamin franklin
secondary sources
3. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
censorship
secede
cottage industry
geographical
4. Robert Fulton
efficiency
relevant
Democracy
Steamboat
5. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
federalism
currency
Judicial Review
population boom
6. 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
federalism
John C. Calhoun
Proclamation of 1763
Gibbons vs. Ogden
7. To obtain or receive
federalism
Impeach
acquire
economic status
8. Samuel Morse
Marbury vs. Madison
Telegraph
Seperation of Powers
harsh
9. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
urban
Emancipation Proclamations
mercantilism
provisions
10. 'Father of the Constitution'
Fourteenth Amendment
federalism
subsistence economy
James Madison
11. A point at which an important decision must be made
crossroads
Jamestown
resolution
third amendment
12. 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
Judicial Review
direct representation
popular culture 'pop culture'
Northwest Ordiance
13. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
Abraham Lincoln
harsh
The first shots of the American Revolution
Andrew Jackson
14. Means to improve by vote
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
ratify
per capita income
Jefferson Davis
15. Widespread hunger within a given region
Frederick Douglas
famine
tariff
civil disobedience
16. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Daniel Webster
Seperation of Powers
population boom
provisions
17. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Bill of Rights
popular soverignty
cottage industry
18. 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
Northwest Ordiance
livstock
Alexander Hamilton
Fourteenth Amendment
19. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
End of the American Revolution
Appomattox Curt House
amendment
Tea Act
20. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
consumer demand
cottage industry
literacy rate
route
21. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Tenth Amedment
Harriet Tubman
significant
draft
22. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
standard of living
federalism
King George III
cultivation
23. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
draft
First shot of Civil War
livstock
free enterprise
24. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Samuel Adams
livstock
famine
James Madison
25. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Impeach
Reaper
Thomas Jefferson
nullification
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
Appomattox Curt House
Fourteenth Amendment
magna carta
Marbury vs. Madison
27. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Jamestown
William Lloyd Garrison
adjacent
28. Is a cruel and unjust government
literacy rate
magna carta
geographical
tyranny
29. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
Civil War
significant
Jefferson Davis
currency
30. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
relevant
government bureaucracy
Gibbons vs. Ogden
31. Things that you own
possessions
Civil War
birthrate
state's rights
32. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
finalcial resources
Henry Clay
third amendment
Jamestown
33. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
consumer demand
John C. Calhoun
Conord Massachusetts
Federalist Papers
34. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
resolution
magna carta
Telegraph
raw materials
35. Changing iron into steal
King George III
Bessemer Process
Ulysses S grant
turmoil
36. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
cultivation
legitmacy
Judicial Review
literacy rate
37. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
economic status
accusations
Conord Massachusetts
Marbury vs. Madison
38. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
Bessemer Process
Interchangeable Parts
President Thomas Jefferson
limited government
39. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
Henry Clay
Navigation Acts
Thomas Jefferson
second amendment
40. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
Interchangeable Parts
diversity
crossroads
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
41. Improtant points in an event
population density
milestones
Cotton Gin
Jamestown
42. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
democratic republic
economic status
Farewell Address
Conord Massachusetts
43. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
foreign policy
The first shots of the American Revolution
Thirteenth Amendment
Steel Plow
44. Realting to an event
relevant
distribution
textile
Thomas Jefferson
45. Eli Whitney
government bureaucracy
Interchangeable Parts
nullification
third amendment
46. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
prospertiy
free enterprise economy
Reaper
sixth amendment
47. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Patrick Henry
Judicial Review
life expectancy
Civil War
48. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
legitmacy
Seperation of Powers
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
49. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
economic status
Robert E. Lee
life expectancy
50. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
free enterprise
acquire
livstock
federalism