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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. Leader of the original democratic party and a 'president of the pople' he was also responsbible for the Trail of Tears - which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River
Reaper
harsh
Andrew Jackson
Northwest Ordiance
2. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
accusations
confined
ninth amendment
3. Eli Whitney
commercial
turmoil
democratic republic
Interchangeable Parts
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.
ninth amendment
sixth amendment
relevant
Thirteenth Amendment
5. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Judicial Review
Fourteenth Amendment
Frederick Douglas
per capita income
6. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
James Madison
raw materials
Alexander Hamilton
Patrick Henry
7. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
sixth amendment
Battle of Gettysburg
accusations
harsh
8. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
Conord Massachusetts
Henry Clay
resolution
accusations
9. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
resolution
population growth
Civil War
Common Sense
10. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
Reaper
diversity
Appomattox Curt House
theocracy
11. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
Farewell Address
route
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
population density
12. Living in a city
militia
finalcial resources
urban
route
13. Having to do with business
Thirteenth Amendment
rural
Gettysburg Adress
commercial
14. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
James Monroe
crossroads
Jefferson Davis
government bureaucracy
15. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
Jefferson Davis
literacy rate
Impeach
16. To be compeletly destroyed
textile
prohibited
devastated
Fifteenth Amendment
17. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Jefferson Davis
milestones
famine
18. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
First shot of Civil War
harsh
acquire
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
19. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
End of the American Revolution
third amendment
cultivation
distribution
20. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
The Declaration of Independence
nullify
free enterprise economy
Andrew Jackson
21. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
labor force
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Civil War
free enterprise
22. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Cotton Gin
ninth amendment
unalienable right
tariff
23. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Judicial Review
Fourteenth Amendment
confined
Tea Act
24. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
Gibbons vs. Ogden
technological advances
prohibited
gross domestic product
25. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Reaper
infectious disease
first amendment
First shot of Civil War
26. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
population density
currency
distribution
migration
27. 'Father of the Constitution'
harsh
famine
gross domestic product
James Madison
28. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
confined
abolition
End of the American Revolution
limited government
29. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
Conord Massachusetts
militia
The Constitution of the United States
federalism
30. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
legitmacy
civil disobedience
secondary sources
Gettysburg Adress
31. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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32. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
free enterprise
Conord Massachusetts
cultivation
Seperation of Powers
33. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
civil disobedience
second amendment
market economy
The Great Compromise
34. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
Ulysses S grant
legitmacy
distribution
Battle of Gettysburg
35. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
resolution
raw materials
End of the American Revolution
36. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
Tea Act
state's rights
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
efficiency
37. Important; of consequence
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
secede
federalism
significant
38. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
William Lloyd Garrison
The first shots of the American Revolution
urban
39. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
End of the American Revolution
President Thomas Jefferson
Robert E. Lee
geographical
40. To change
amend
theocracy
nullification
urban
41. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Bill of Rights
Henry Clay
Ulysses S grant
President Thomas Jefferson
42. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
federalism
Proclamation of 1763
textile
Cotton Gin
43. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
urban
draft
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
life expectancy
44. To contaminate or corup
absolute monarch
infected
democratic republic
infectious disease
45. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
geographical
literacy rate
second amendment
consumer demand
46. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Daniel Webster
subsistence economy
Jefferson Davis
nullify
47. John Deere
popular culture 'pop culture'
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S grant
Steel Plow
48. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
The Declaration of Independence
commercial
absolute monarch
Alexander Hamilton
49. The right to vote
popular soverignty
Battle of Saratoga
suffrage
milestones
50. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Conord Massachusetts
Common Sense
export
accusations