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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. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
economic status
ninth amendment
legitmacy
resolution
2. Improtant points in an event
raw materials
milestones
possessions
amend
3. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
4. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
mercantilism
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Judicial Review
Jefferson Davis
5. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
federalist
devastated
John C. Calhoun
prospertiy
6. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
suffrage
nullification
federal
technological advances
7. To obtain or receive
acquire
free enterprise
export
draft
8. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
mercantilism
separation of powers
Navigation Acts
Interchangeable Parts
9. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
benjamin franklin
population boom
Navigation Acts
textile
10. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
technological advances
second amendment
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Civil War
11. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Tubman
urban
Fourteenth Amendment
12. To be compeletly destroyed
Seperation of Powers
Appomattox Curt House
devastated
The Declaration of Independence
13. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
Conord Massachusetts
tyranny
tariff
milestones
14. 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)
President Thomas Jefferson
militia
unalienable right
state's rights
15. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
route
cottage industry
commercial
Fifteenth Amendment
16. To withdraw or pull away
Jefferson Davis
infectious disease
Frederick Douglas
secede
17. Next to or beside
population boom
Northwest Ordiance
tyranny
adjacent
18. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
milestones
diversity
labor force
grievance
19. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
cottage industry
Judicial Review
federalism
First shot of Civil War
20. Having to do with business
commercial
Reaper
theocracy
Tea Act
21. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
Fifteenth Amendment
nullification
relevant
22. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
secede
absolute monarch
Civil War
Marbury vs. Madison
23. Having to do with clothing
infectious disease
harsh
First shot of Civil War
textile
24. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
democratic republic
treason
distribution
Gibbons vs. Ogden
25. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
resolution
President Thomas Jefferson
suffrage
distribution
26. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
commader
Emancipation Proclamations
birthrate
milestones
27. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
democratic republic
Fourteenth Amendment
Bill of Rights
cottage industry
28. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
Appomattox Curt House
Farewell Address
free enterprise
foreign policy
29. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
Fifteenth Amendment
third amendment
civil disobedience
per capita income
30. 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
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Reaper
Daniel Webster
31. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Frederick Douglas
militia
livstock
infectious disease
32. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
Reaper
James Madison
government bureaucracy
landlocked
33. 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
first amendment
Gettysburg Adress
Fourteenth Amendment
Common Sense
34. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
cottage industry
ratify
President Thomas Jefferson
turmoil
35. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
King George III
James Madison
Daniel Webster
Seperation of Powers
36. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
democratic republic
amendment
Seperation of Powers
significant
37. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Thirteenth Amendment
federalism
Jamestown
Patrick Henry
38. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
standard of living
The first shots of the American Revolution
efficiency
abolition
39. Realting to an event
per capita income
first amendment
relevant
unalienable right
40. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Civil War
Jamestown
livstock
population boom
41. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
livstock
Samuel Adams
population growth
population density
42. 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
Daniel Webster
antifederalist
population growth
43. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
Farewell Address
confined
technological advances
44. 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
Northwest Ordiance
route
migration
population growth
45. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
first amendment
Henry Clay
route
46. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
civil disobedience
The Great Compromise
Gettysburg Adress
livstock
47. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
relevant
cultivation
per capita income
Proclamation of 1763
48. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
treason
resolution
nullify
diversity
49. To contaminate or corup
Judicial Review
geographical
infected
civil disobedience
50. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
export
population growth
primary sources
The Declaration of Independence