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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. Improtant points in an event
federalist
diversity
milestones
Ulysses S grant
2. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
distribution
Conord Massachusetts
James Monroe
King George III
3. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
literacy rate
currency
life expectancy
Reaper
4. Next to or beside
benjamin franklin
significant
Proclamation of 1763
adjacent
5. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
amendment
Democracy
Cotton Gin
secede
6. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
magna carta
Frederick Douglas
Judicial Review
Common Sense
7. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Battle of Saratoga
Patrick Henry
Mayflower Compact
Samuel Adams
8. 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
commader
Bill of Rights
primary sources
Gibbons vs. Ogden
9. 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
federalism
autocracy
Alexander Hamilton
third amendment
10. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Appomattox Curt House
acquire
labor force
Jefferson Davis
11. 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.
sixth amendment
provisions
Judicial Review
The Declaration of Independence
12. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
amend
federal
famine
King George III
13. General of the confederate army
significant
Fifteenth Amendment
Robert E. Lee
consumer demand
14. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
theocracy
magna carta
population growth
Telegraph
15. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
censorship
market economy
labor force
The first shots of the American Revolution
16. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
limited government
Appomattox Curt House
popular soverignty
First shot of Civil War
17. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
End of the American Revolution
Civil War
tariff
first amendment
18. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
turmoil
geographical
cottage industry
federalism
19. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
Samuel Adams
antifederalist
efficiency
relevant
20. Means to improve by vote
nullify
James Madison
ratify
autocracy
21. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
federal
censorship
accusations
22. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
ninth amendment
cultivation
free enterprise
infectious disease
23. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
nullification
popular culture 'pop culture'
diversity
civil disobedience
24. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
James Madison
geographical
treason
Robert E. Lee
25. 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
popular culture 'pop culture'
migration
Abraham Lincoln
26. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
infectious disease
Frederick Douglas
free enterprise economy
standard of living
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
route
population growth
economic status
Northwest Ordiance
28. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
Abraham Lincoln
finalcial resources
Common Sense
treason
29. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
Battle of Saratoga
nullify
standard of living
livstock
30. 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)
unalienable right
End of the American Revolution
grievance
diversity
31. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
provisions
Tea Act
limited government
Battle of Gettysburg
32. Things that you own
prohibited
possessions
ninth amendment
Henry Clay
33. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
popular soverignty
Daniel Webster
Mexican Cession
Conord Massachusetts
34. Moving from one place to antoher
resolution
migration
Impeach
John C. Calhoun
35. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
Robert E. Lee
Gettysburg Adress
first amendment
militia
36. 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
significant
ratify
state's rights
37. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
Battle of Gettysburg
ratify
Harriet Tubman
third amendment
38. John Deere
limited government
Steel Plow
Farewell Address
labor force
39. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
commercial
Common Sense
infectious disease
diplomatic relations
40. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
route
commader
limited government
King George III
41. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
King George III
significant
censorship
economic status
42. Having to do with clothing
federal
textile
Northwest Ordiance
The Great Compromise
43. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
commercial
Bill of Rights
Jamestown
Reaper
44. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
absolute monarch
draft
autocracy
abolition
45. 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
Cotton Gin
Democracy
Andrew Jackson
prospertiy
46. 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
efficiency
labor force
End of the American Revolution
Northwest Ordiance
47. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
life expectancy
Appomattox Curt House
autocracy
48. Relationships that exsits between governments
population boom
ninth amendment
Farewell Address
diplomatic relations
49. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
militia
treason
commercial
50. 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
Thomas Jefferson
currency
infectious disease
The Declaration of Independence