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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. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
harsh
livstock
suffrage
Battle of Saratoga
2. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
prohibited
separation of powers
Tenth Amedment
First shot of Civil War
3. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
separation of powers
significant
Cotton Gin
foreign policy
4. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Impeach
Marbury vs. Madison
popular soverignty
autocracy
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
acquire
Gettysburg Adress
popular culture 'pop culture'
ratify
6. The supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted on September 17 - 1787 - by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - and later ratified by conventions in each state in the name of 'the People';
nullification
The Constitution of the United States
currency
Bill of Rights
7. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
infected
finalcial resources
Interchangeable Parts
federal
8. Led to the Boston Tea Party
nullification
foreign policy
Tea Act
provisions
9. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Abraham Lincoln
ratify
government bureaucracy
The Great Compromise
10. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
Samuel Adams
urban
distribution
11. 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
treason
tyranny
famine
12. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
prohibited
Emancipation Proclamations
population growth
accusations
13. To be compeletly destroyed
Judicial Review
devastated
Reaper
Battle of Saratoga
14. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
distribution
abolition
infectious disease
finalcial resources
15. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
Gibbons vs. Ogden
democratic republic
Reaper
benjamin franklin
16. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
Fifteenth Amendment
efficiency
commader
market economy
17. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
resolution
Navigation Acts
Impeach
federal
18. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
distribution
federalism
The first shots of the American Revolution
End of the American Revolution
19. 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
secede
infected
significant
20. Abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
Steel Plow
life expectancy
End of the American Revolution
21. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
third amendment
censorship
Patrick Henry
first amendment
22. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
Henry Clay
population density
legitmacy
literacy rate
23. Is a cruel and unjust government
Mayflower Compact
draft
Treaty of Paris of 1763
tyranny
24. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
resolution
accusations
raw materials
Gettysburg Adress
25. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
limited government
antifederalist
market economy
significant
26. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
birthrate
prohibited
government bureaucracy
secondary sources
27. An agreement singed in 1620 b the Pilgrims in Playmouth - to consult each other baout laws for the colony and a promise to work together to make it succeed. Postive step towards self - rule.
prohibited
Bessemer Process
Ulysses S grant
Mayflower Compact
28. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Fourteenth Amendment
labor force
Appomattox Curt House
magna carta
29. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
amendment
raw materials
diversity
migration
30. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
militia
Bill of Rights
distribution
Susan B Anothony
31. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
censorship
relevant
absolute monarch
commader
32. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
turmoil
Impeach
President Thomas Jefferson
command economy
33. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
End of the American Revolution
limited government
Appomattox Curt House
nullification
34. 'Father of the Constitution'
James Madison
labor force
grievance
popular soverignty
35. Compliantes againsts a person or state
Robert E. Lee
grievance
second amendment
militia
36. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Hamilton
livstock
Treaty of Paris of 1763
37. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
James Madison
amend
Tea Act
Frederick Douglas
38. 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)
export
confined
ninth amendment
consumer demand
39. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
ninth amendment
relevant
Marbury vs. Madison
confined
40. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
Gettysburg Adress
free enterprise economy
The Great Compromise
magna carta
41. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
Susan B Anothony
acquire
technological advances
suffrage
42. Eli Whitney
significant
market economy
Steamboat
Interchangeable Parts
43. Changing iron into steal
Federalist Papers
Bessemer Process
The first shots of the American Revolution
secede
44. 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
nullify
population growth
Susan B Anothony
45. 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
Henry Clay
Seperation of Powers
Alexander Hamilton
secede
46. General of the confederate army
life expectancy
Robert E. Lee
export
Democracy
47. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
Conord Massachusetts
James Monroe
Impeach
Common Sense
48. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
birthrate
cultivation
per capita income
suffrage
49. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
militia
Proclamation of 1763
Andrew Jackson
free enterprise
50. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
civil disobedience
significant
turmoil
ninth amendment