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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. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
John C. Calhoun
Ulysses S grant
third amendment
Democracy
2. To obtain or receive
tariff
acquire
Federalist Papers
Civil War
3. Things that you own
Proclamation of 1763
possessions
Samuel Adams
prohibited
4. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
James Madison
landlocked
Susan B Anothony
first amendment
5. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
unalienable right
government bureaucracy
economic status
labor force
6. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
amendment
infected
Tea Act
Appomattox Curt House
7. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
cottage industry
third amendment
Susan B Anothony
state's rights
8. To contaminate or corup
infected
ratify
Mayflower Compact
Proclamation of 1763
9. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
geographical
Navigation Acts
Patrick Henry
market economy
10. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
federalism
provisions
gross domestic product
free enterprise
11. Samuel Morse
civil disobedience
Telegraph
mercantilism
government bureaucracy
12. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Judicial Review
President Thomas Jefferson
Telegraph
13. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
command economy
diplomatic relations
federalism
Patrick Henry
14. To change
amend
Democracy
The Great Compromise
Bessemer Process
15. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
Frederick Douglas
secondary sources
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
subsistence economy
16. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
benjamin franklin
checks and balances
Thirteenth Amendment
nullify
17. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
population boom
cottage industry
amendment
Frederick Douglas
18. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
Democracy
King George III
per capita income
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
19. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
significant
Federalist Papers
Emancipation Proclamations
democratic republic
20. Living in a country
significant
second amendment
technological advances
rural
21. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
confined
End of the American Revolution
free enterprise economy
Samuel Adams
22. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
devastated
secede
Proclamation of 1763
population growth
23. Realting to an event
commercial
rural
relevant
Alexander Hamilton
24. Living in a city
urban
infectious disease
Battle of Gettysburg
birthrate
25. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
efficiency
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
famine
Appomattox Curt House
26. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
John C. Calhoun
Federalist Papers
gross domestic product
Marbury vs. Madison
27. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
Mexican Cession
limited government
currency
popular culture 'pop culture'
28. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
prohibited
Common Sense
Proclamation of 1763
29. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
nullify
devastated
landlocked
Samuel Adams
30. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
command economy
amend
Farewell Address
Bill of Rights
31. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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32. 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)
treason
tariff
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
consumer demand
33. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
Appomattox Curt House
third amendment
birthrate
Thirteenth Amendment
34. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
federal
second amendment
significant
significant
35. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
prospertiy
command economy
James Monroe
The Great Compromise
36. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
free enterprise economy
James Madison
accusations
King George III
37. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Jamestown
Harriet Tubman
Mexican Cession
commader
38. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
confined
civil disobedience
Farewell Address
Federalist Papers
39. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
standard of living
Alexander Hamilton
government bureaucracy
Treaty of Paris of 1763
40. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
life expectancy
Telegraph
First shot of Civil War
amendment
41. An agreement singed in 1620 b the Pilgrims in Playmouth - to consult each other baout laws for the colony and a promise to work together to make it succeed. Postive step towards self - rule.
Mayflower Compact
nullify
The first shots of the American Revolution
ninth amendment
42. Having to do with business
secede
commercial
William Lloyd Garrison
diversity
43. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
government bureaucracy
accusations
population boom
Reaper
44. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
federalist
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Thomas Jefferson
turmoil
45. Series of essays written by James Madison - John Jay - Alexander Hamilton - defending the Consituion and the principles on which the government of the United States was founded
Federalist Papers
devastated
technological advances
migration
46. To withdraw or pull away
Marbury vs. Madison
infectious disease
Battle of Saratoga
secede
47. Original records of an event - they incldue eyewitness reports created at the time of an event speeches - and letters by people involved in the event - photographs and artifacts
Appomattox Curt House
Cotton Gin
primary sources
Andrew Jackson
48. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
federalism
federalism
tariff
provisions
49. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
accusations
Federalist Papers
confined
acquire
50. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
abolition
route
federalism
consumer demand