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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 sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Fourteenth Amendment
population boom
benjamin franklin
geographical
2. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
Telegraph
Navigation Acts
Judicial Review
democratic republic
3. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
third amendment
ratify
secondary sources
federalism
4. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
resolution
Marbury vs. Madison
first amendment
route
5. 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.
Civil War
federalism
sixth amendment
raw materials
6. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
cottage industry
second amendment
The Declaration of Independence
theocracy
7. 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
cottage industry
The Constitution of the United States
Marbury vs. Madison
Battle of Gettysburg
8. Moving from one place to antoher
Marbury vs. Madison
migration
Federalist Papers
literacy rate
9. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
urban
devastated
Frederick Douglas
Conord Massachusetts
10. Improtant points in an event
infectious disease
milestones
Patrick Henry
birthrate
11. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
tyranny
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Calhoun
sixth amendment
12. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
birthrate
ninth amendment
sixth amendment
unalienable right
13. Important; of consequence
Democracy
livstock
population density
significant
14. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
route
Telegraph
federalism
market economy
15. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
consumer demand
tariff
The Great Compromise
Appomattox Curt House
16. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Emancipation Proclamations
crossroads
tariff
antifederalist
17. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
significant
tariff
landlocked
Patrick Henry
18. Having to do with clothing
textile
theocracy
Interchangeable Parts
legitmacy
19. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
Marbury vs. Madison
The Declaration of Independence
ratify
20. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Alexander Hamilton
turmoil
confined
Impeach
21. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
commader
route
distribution
resolution
22. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
prospertiy
Samuel Adams
Thomas Jefferson
confined
23. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
currency
Mexican Cession
labor force
The first shots of the American Revolution
24. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
population density
commercial
treason
literacy rate
25. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
free enterprise
labor force
Navigation Acts
26. Eli Whitney
economic status
Interchangeable Parts
Gettysburg Adress
Frederick Douglas
27. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
prospertiy
President Thomas Jefferson
Steel Plow
federalism
28. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
government bureaucracy
ninth amendment
subsistence economy
benjamin franklin
29. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Harriet Tubman
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
turmoil
The Declaration of Independence
30. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
consumer demand
Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry
export
31. 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
The Great Compromise
Northwest Ordiance
The Declaration of Independence
Tenth Amedment
32. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
Samuel Adams
command economy
tyranny
Battle of Gettysburg
33. To contaminate or corup
acquire
The first shots of the American Revolution
Common Sense
infected
34. 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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35. To obtain or receive
milestones
The Declaration of Independence
acquire
antifederalist
36. 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
commercial
Andrew Jackson
technological advances
government bureaucracy
37. 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
prospertiy
urban
Gibbons vs. Ogden
finalcial resources
38. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
The Declaration of Independence
infectious disease
raw materials
John C. Calhoun
39. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
market economy
limited government
finalcial resources
Thomas Jefferson
40. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
nullification
distribution
absolute monarch
treason
41. Means to improve by vote
President Thomas Jefferson
grievance
legitmacy
ratify
42. 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)
Treaty of Paris of 1763
unalienable right
federal
Ulysses S grant
43. Led to the Boston Tea Party
separation of powers
Jefferson Davis
textile
Tea Act
44. Widespread hunger within a given region
famine
milestones
Farewell Address
Frederick Douglas
45. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
Alexander Hamilton
censorship
amendment
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
46. Changing iron into steal
Andrew Jackson
Bessemer Process
confined
Thirteenth Amendment
47. 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
Patrick Henry
limited government
mercantilism
Civil War
48. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Cotton Gin
abolition
Harriet Tubman
famine
49. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
sixth amendment
federalist
militia
Civil War
50. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Judicial Review
per capita income
Mexican Cession
amend