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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Instructions:
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
absolute monarch
Harriet Tubman
population boom
federal
2. 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
Henry Clay
Robert E. Lee
prospertiy
3. 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
4. Women's rights organizer
First shot of Civil War
James Monroe
Susan B Anothony
Andrew Jackson
5. 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
government bureaucracy
Gettysburg Adress
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
turmoil
6. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Tenth Amedment
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Tubman
per capita income
7. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
third amendment
Bill of Rights
birthrate
Federalist Papers
8. Living in a country
rural
currency
harsh
Fourteenth Amendment
9. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
significant
tariff
raw materials
Impeach
10. To withdraw or pull away
secede
crossroads
censorship
The Declaration of Independence
11. Changing iron into steal
separation of powers
Bessemer Process
federalism
free enterprise economy
12. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Appomattox Curt House
The first shots of the American Revolution
Civil War
finalcial resources
13. The state of acting according to law; lawful
free enterprise economy
legitmacy
Jefferson Davis
civil disobedience
14. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Democracy
crossroads
Battle of Saratoga
rural
15. Next to or beside
adjacent
raw materials
Tenth Amedment
geographical
16. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
migration
absolute monarch
federalism
ninth amendment
17. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Battle of Saratoga
King George III
population growth
Samuel Adams
18. To contaminate or corup
infected
primary sources
livstock
legitmacy
19. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
subsistence economy
President Thomas Jefferson
distribution
Steamboat
20. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
gross domestic product
checks and balances
benjamin franklin
resolution
21. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
Abraham Lincoln
sixth amendment
federalism
diversity
22. Important; of consequence
Democracy
mercantilism
significant
popular soverignty
23. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Navigation Acts
federalism
Impeach
Reaper
24. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
Abraham Lincoln
President Thomas Jefferson
Farewell Address
25. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
possessions
Fourteenth Amendment
life expectancy
tyranny
26. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
Robert E. Lee
Navigation Acts
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Fourteenth Amendment
27. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
secede
standard of living
Abraham Lincoln
ratify
28. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
prospertiy
limited government
Andrew Jackson
prohibited
29. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
James Monroe
textile
provisions
infectious disease
30. Robert Fulton
route
The Declaration of Independence
Steamboat
efficiency
31. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
livstock
foreign policy
harsh
market economy
32. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
per capita income
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
rural
33. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
livstock
Federalist Papers
Impeach
34. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
mercantilism
Henry Clay
Farewell Address
Battle of Saratoga
35. Realting to an event
Democracy
Fourteenth Amendment
relevant
harsh
36. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
famine
currency
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Farewell Address
37. Means to improve by vote
resolution
Proclamation of 1763
magna carta
ratify
38. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
infectious disease
foreign policy
benjamin franklin
39. To be compeletly destroyed
Bessemer Process
currency
devastated
market economy
40. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
harsh
diplomatic relations
Seperation of Powers
commader
41. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
sixth amendment
Patrick Henry
tariff
cottage industry
42. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
relevant
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
nullification
censorship
43. 'Father of the Constitution'
James Madison
geographical
first amendment
per capita income
44. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
free enterprise economy
Patrick Henry
urban
ratify
45. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
democratic republic
Thirteenth Amendment
End of the American Revolution
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
End of the American Revolution
third amendment
Marbury vs. Madison
state's rights
47. 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
Civil War
Impeach
Marbury vs. Madison
nullification
48. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
The first shots of the American Revolution
state's rights
Conord Massachusetts
Fourteenth Amendment
49. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
resolution
tyranny
popular culture 'pop culture'
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
50. Living in a city
urban
efficiency
Jamestown
grievance