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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
provisions
commercial
federal
Emancipation Proclamations
2. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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3. Living in a country
first amendment
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seperation of Powers
rural
4. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
foreign policy
Frederick Douglas
secede
federalism
5. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Fourteenth Amendment
urban
federal
Steamboat
6. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Fifteenth Amendment
population density
Mayflower Compact
Farewell Address
7. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
confined
Mexican Cession
second amendment
8. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
Mayflower Compact
efficiency
economic status
9. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
Proclamation of 1763
technological advances
First shot of Civil War
population boom
10. 'Father of the Constitution'
Frederick Douglas
free enterprise
James Madison
Conord Massachusetts
11. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
second amendment
primary sources
command economy
significant
12. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
Susan B Anothony
Ulysses S grant
cultivation
Thirteenth Amendment
13. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
export
direct representation
crossroads
efficiency
14. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
population growth
secede
Tea Act
harsh
15. Compliantes againsts a person or state
tyranny
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
significant
grievance
16. Eli Whitney
textile
Mayflower Compact
command economy
Interchangeable Parts
17. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
foreign policy
confined
popular culture 'pop culture'
censorship
18. To obtain or receive
per capita income
Samuel Adams
acquire
cottage industry
19. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
life expectancy
secede
commader
cultivation
20. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
accusations
Seperation of Powers
benjamin franklin
Battle of Saratoga
21. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
checks and balances
government bureaucracy
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
per capita income
22. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
suffrage
First shot of Civil War
Cotton Gin
rural
23. The Supreme Court decision that rulled that the consitution gave contorl of interstate comerce to the U.S. congress not the individual states trhough whih a route passed
cottage industry
secondary sources
militia
Gibbons vs. Ogden
24. 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
secede
legitmacy
relevant
Federalist Papers
25. 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
Bill of Rights
labor force
standard of living
Alexander Hamilton
26. 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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27. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
third amendment
treason
The first shots of the American Revolution
28. 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
Navigation Acts
Mayflower Compact
Marbury vs. Madison
rural
29. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
The Great Compromise
Samuel Adams
command economy
gross domestic product
30. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
export
nullify
federalism
benjamin franklin
31. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
suffrage
first amendment
Steamboat
rural
32. 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
standard of living
Interchangeable Parts
civil disobedience
33. The right to vote
Frederick Douglas
suffrage
amend
John C. Calhoun
34. To be compeletly destroyed
James Monroe
devastated
amend
sixth amendment
35. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
raw materials
Battle of Gettysburg
accusations
unalienable right
36. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Tenth Amedment
population growth
Thirteenth Amendment
Civil War
37. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
harsh
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Fifteenth Amendment
Harriet Tubman
38. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
Judicial Review
federal
Thomas Jefferson
accusations
39. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
treason
Battle of Saratoga
textile
40. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Samuel Adams
President Thomas Jefferson
gross domestic product
Henry Clay
41. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
livstock
standard of living
First shot of Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
42. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
Fourteenth Amendment
Battle of Gettysburg
Farewell Address
diversity
43. 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
abolition
accusations
End of the American Revolution
separation of powers
44. Having to do with clothing
textile
technological advances
Appomattox Curt House
Abraham Lincoln
45. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
free enterprise economy
John C. Calhoun
First shot of Civil War
federal
46. Samuel Morse
Fifteenth Amendment
Conord Massachusetts
Telegraph
textile
47. 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
commercial
Ulysses S grant
Andrew Jackson
48. Is a cruel and unjust government
Judicial Review
magna carta
first amendment
tyranny
49. John Deere
Cotton Gin
textile
Impeach
Steel Plow
50. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
tyranny
Thirteenth Amendment
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