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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. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
Gettysburg Adress
harsh
market economy
2. 'Father of the Constitution'
autocracy
James Madison
treason
magna carta
3. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
Gettysburg Adress
standard of living
confined
secondary sources
4. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
secondary sources
first amendment
per capita income
federalism
5. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Samuel Adams
magna carta
Thirteenth Amendment
absolute monarch
6. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
currency
grievance
route
Telegraph
7. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
federalist
migration
The Declaration of Independence
Interchangeable Parts
8. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Mexican Cession
harsh
raw materials
Henry Clay
9. Is a cruel and unjust government
Treaty of Paris of 1763
birthrate
The first shots of the American Revolution
tyranny
10. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
first amendment
population growth
James Madison
ratify
11. Passionate patriot who became fomous for his fiery speeches in favor of American Independence his most famous quote included the worlds 'give me liberty or give me Death.'
unalienable right
secede
Patrick Henry
Mayflower Compact
12. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
William Lloyd Garrison
foreign policy
nullification
Patrick Henry
13. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
ninth amendment
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
efficiency
Mayflower Compact
14. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Samuel Adams
tariff
absolute monarch
infectious disease
15. General of the confederate army
separation of powers
primary sources
Robert E. Lee
Henry Clay
16. Robert Fulton
federalist
turmoil
Steamboat
Reaper
17. 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
sixth amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
popular culture 'pop culture'
18. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
William Lloyd Garrison
Steel Plow
federalism
Alexander Hamilton
19. 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)
diversity
landlocked
consumer demand
turmoil
20. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
textile
landlocked
benjamin franklin
turmoil
21. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
gross domestic product
resolution
population density
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
22. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
amend
Andrew Jackson
confined
landlocked
23. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
unalienable right
labor force
popular culture 'pop culture'
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
24. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
prohibited
William Lloyd Garrison
Interchangeable Parts
civil disobedience
25. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
legitmacy
ninth amendment
second amendment
confined
26. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
Mayflower Compact
Appomattox Curt House
Democracy
King George III
27. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
nullification
population density
Battle of Saratoga
secondary sources
28. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Jefferson Davis
Reaper
milestones
Bill of Rights
29. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
government bureaucracy
birthrate
antifederalist
amendment
30. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
federalism
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
per capita income
Appomattox Curt House
31. Ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America; ended the American Revolution and foreced Britian to recginze the United States as an idependent Nations
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Marbury vs. Madison
amend
Daniel Webster
32. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
command economy
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Interchangeable Parts
Jefferson Davis
33. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
prospertiy
benjamin franklin
End of the American Revolution
34. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
federalist
route
abolition
migration
35. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
devastated
benjamin franklin
Frederick Douglas
Navigation Acts
36. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Fourteenth Amendment
Appomattox Curt House
export
Susan B Anothony
37. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
currency
Gettysburg Adress
raw materials
technological advances
38. Compliantes againsts a person or state
Robert E. Lee
free enterprise
Bill of Rights
grievance
39. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Seperation of Powers
livstock
commader
Civil War
40. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
secede
Thomas Jefferson
civil disobedience
infected
41. 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
42. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
migration
antifederalist
End of the American Revolution
Henry Clay
43. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
The first shots of the American Revolution
cultivation
Battle of Gettysburg
finalcial resources
44. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
commader
Fifteenth Amendment
Tenth Amedment
diplomatic relations
45. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
export
federalism
The first shots of the American Revolution
suffrage
46. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Seperation of Powers
Battle of Gettysburg
Thirteenth Amendment
birthrate
47. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
48. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
finalcial resources
Proclamation of 1763
rural
tariff
49. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
Reaper
Fourteenth Amendment
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
foreign policy
50. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Thirteenth Amendment
Proclamation of 1763
Harriet Tubman
Navigation Acts