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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. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
draft
Tea Act
Navigation Acts
2. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
Steel Plow
government bureaucracy
Proclamation of 1763
3. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Proclamation of 1763
diversity
Treaty of Paris of 1763
censorship
4. 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.
draft
sixth amendment
Henry Clay
diplomatic relations
5. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
nullify
civil disobedience
Battle of Saratoga
urban
6. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
primary sources
rural
draft
benjamin franklin
7. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
Gibbons vs. Ogden
geographical
standard of living
civil disobedience
8. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
cultivation
currency
literacy rate
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
9. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
Alexander Hamilton
livstock
mercantilism
Democracy
10. Improtant points in an event
Democracy
Steamboat
Northwest Ordiance
milestones
11. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
civil disobedience
command economy
tariff
Reaper
12. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Samuel Adams
James Monroe
Bill of Rights
treason
13. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
Andrew Jackson
checks and balances
Henry Clay
suffrage
14. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
literacy rate
nullification
William Lloyd Garrison
primary sources
15. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
commader
Federalist Papers
turmoil
Thomas Jefferson
16. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Steamboat
Federalist Papers
Battle of Gettysburg
Ulysses S grant
17. 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
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18. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
infected
population density
resolution
magna carta
19. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
Farewell Address
devastated
amendment
treason
20. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Conord Massachusetts
efficiency
Jamestown
mercantilism
21. Is a cruel and unjust government
standard of living
commader
tyranny
infected
22. 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
Alexander Hamilton
second amendment
Patrick Henry
23. Economic theory that a country's strength is measured by the amount of gold it has that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the the Mother Country
market economy
federalism
mercantilism
labor force
24. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
Steel Plow
legitmacy
currency
birthrate
25. 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)
commader
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Abraham Lincoln
unalienable right
26. Important to a certain event or topic
life expectancy
antifederalist
significant
prohibited
27. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
John C. Calhoun
Fourteenth Amendment
James Monroe
provisions
28. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
population growth
Tea Act
The Constitution of the United States
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
29. Robert Fulton
standard of living
literacy rate
Steamboat
King George III
30. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Henry Clay
The first shots of the American Revolution
amend
Navigation Acts
31. Eli Whitney
Seperation of Powers
state's rights
route
Interchangeable Parts
32. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
President Thomas Jefferson
autocracy
commader
King George III
33. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
antifederalist
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Democracy
34. A point at which an important decision must be made
Conord Massachusetts
crossroads
Daniel Webster
militia
35. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
ninth amendment
Steel Plow
Proclamation of 1763
Andrew Jackson
36. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
prospertiy
abolition
Daniel Webster
efficiency
37. Abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
acquire
significant
Daniel Webster
38. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
free enterprise economy
nullification
Impeach
labor force
39. 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
Mayflower Compact
Northwest Ordiance
adjacent
currency
40. To obtain or receive
market economy
free enterprise
acquire
popular soverignty
41. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
resolution
Henry Clay
Seperation of Powers
provisions
42. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
popular culture 'pop culture'
Fourteenth Amendment
federal
Tenth Amedment
43. Means to improve by vote
technological advances
efficiency
civil disobedience
ratify
44. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
prohibited
birthrate
Conord Massachusetts
technological advances
45. Moving from one place to antoher
William Lloyd Garrison
geographical
significant
migration
46. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
famine
commercial
militia
rural
47. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
export
Appomattox Curt House
raw materials
distribution
48. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
federal
famine
free enterprise economy
livstock
49. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
Northwest Ordiance
third amendment
James Monroe
Interchangeable Parts
50. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Navigation Acts
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Battle of Saratoga
Impeach