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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 system in which each branch of government has its own powers
legitmacy
Seperation of Powers
ratify
Jamestown
2. Things that you own
mercantilism
possessions
The Constitution of the United States
secede
3. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
suffrage
benjamin franklin
population density
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
4. 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
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Northwest Ordiance
autocracy
gross domestic product
5. 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 Declaration of Independence
Mayflower Compact
economic status
turmoil
6. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
second amendment
technological advances
accusations
standard of living
7. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
treason
Henry Clay
mercantilism
First shot of Civil War
8. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
First shot of Civil War
harsh
mercantilism
Henry Clay
9. Living in a city
diplomatic relations
Gettysburg Adress
urban
route
10. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
diversity
federal
Impeach
censorship
11. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
Daniel Webster
amend
The Great Compromise
nullification
12. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
provisions
Mexican Cession
labor force
Northwest Ordiance
13. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
separation of powers
Cotton Gin
Jefferson Davis
raw materials
14. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Robert E. Lee
Cotton Gin
Judicial Review
Ulysses S grant
15. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
federalist
Harriet Tubman
direct representation
16. The right to vote
Appomattox Curt House
The Constitution of the United States
Mayflower Compact
suffrage
17. Next to or beside
adjacent
The Constitution of the United States
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seperation of Powers
18. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
amend
James Madison
harsh
free enterprise
19. Short speech given by Abrahman Lincoln to dedicate a cemetry for soliders who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is considered a profound statement of American ideals. Four score and seven years ago - our fathers....and that governemtn of the peopl
infectious disease
Steel Plow
Gettysburg Adress
Tea Act
20. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
ninth amendment
Democracy
prospertiy
treason
21. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
export
King George III
Bessemer Process
benjamin franklin
22. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
Steel Plow
treason
landlocked
King George III
23. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
Fifteenth Amendment
antifederalist
Navigation Acts
free enterprise
24. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
Thirteenth Amendment
export
Susan B Anothony
market economy
25. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
provisions
Fourteenth Amendment
William Lloyd Garrison
Seperation of Powers
26. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Frederick Douglas
draft
population boom
Robert E. Lee
27. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
The Declaration of Independence
command economy
censorship
third amendment
28. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
29. Robert Fulton
possessions
Navigation Acts
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Steamboat
30. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
adjacent
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Tenth Amedment
free enterprise economy
31. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
prospertiy
democratic republic
Telegraph
amend
32. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
Federalist Papers
resolution
population growth
abolition
33. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
The Constitution of the United States
finalcial resources
route
Daniel Webster
34. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
tariff
Frederick Douglas
Battle of Gettysburg
resolution
35. 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
infected
James Madison
popular culture 'pop culture'
36. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
Gibbons vs. Ogden
primary sources
finalcial resources
direct representation
37. Living in a country
Appomattox Curt House
draft
rural
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
38. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
39. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
civil disobedience
tyranny
The first shots of the American Revolution
Bill of Rights
40. Is a cruel and unjust government
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seperation of Powers
tyranny
Common Sense
41. Women's rights organizer
literacy rate
efficiency
Susan B Anothony
life expectancy
42. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
suffrage
life expectancy
amendment
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
43. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Seperation of Powers
Frederick Douglas
federal
consumer demand
44. 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
Fourteenth Amendment
Marbury vs. Madison
distribution
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
45. To contaminate or corup
relevant
grievance
infected
economic status
46. To change
amend
democratic republic
harsh
birthrate
47. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
consumer demand
Proclamation of 1763
Bill of Rights
raw materials
48. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
possessions
subsistence economy
acquire
Farewell Address
49. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Navigation Acts
Appomattox Curt House
migration
unalienable right
50. Eli Whitney
population growth
federalism
Interchangeable Parts
nullify