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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. 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
milestones
End of the American Revolution
birthrate
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
2. 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)
James Monroe
currency
literacy rate
consumer demand
3. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Samuel Adams
Cotton Gin
cottage industry
tyranny
4. Widespread hunger within a given region
Abraham Lincoln
relevant
famine
consumer demand
5. Not allowed
Henry Clay
prohibited
limited government
Harriet Tubman
6. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
federalist
James Madison
livstock
relevant
7. 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
second amendment
currency
magna carta
Alexander Hamilton
8. Next to or beside
labor force
Ulysses S grant
adjacent
per capita income
9. 'Father of the Constitution'
secede
James Madison
Mayflower Compact
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
10. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
President Thomas Jefferson
command economy
diversity
separation of powers
11. To obtain or receive
acquire
raw materials
popular culture 'pop culture'
checks and balances
12. Original records of an event - they incldue eyewitness reports created at the time of an event speeches - and letters by people involved in the event - photographs and artifacts
adjacent
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
primary sources
free enterprise
13. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
theocracy
Appomattox Curt House
infected
antifederalist
14. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
consumer demand
population density
Seperation of Powers
secede
15. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
federalism
accusations
cultivation
federal
16. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
Ulysses S grant
confined
primary sources
tyranny
17. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
The Declaration of Independence
treason
The first shots of the American Revolution
Marbury vs. Madison
18. Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts
Jamestown
Bessemer Process
free enterprise economy
19. Important; of consequence
significant
Seperation of Powers
Harriet Tubman
gross domestic product
20. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
federalism
finalcial resources
turmoil
population growth
21. Improtant points in an event
milestones
rural
suffrage
Harriet Tubman
22. General of the confederate army
Frederick Douglas
Robert E. Lee
abolition
President Thomas Jefferson
23. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
democratic republic
checks and balances
turmoil
free enterprise
24. Is a cruel and unjust government
adjacent
tyranny
free enterprise
diplomatic relations
25. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
cottage industry
democratic republic
secede
economic status
26. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
export
possessions
William Lloyd Garrison
provisions
27. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
federalism
Battle of Gettysburg
Steel Plow
28. Moving from one place to antoher
Battle of Gettysburg
distribution
migration
accusations
29. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
technological advances
infectious disease
livstock
federalism
30. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
Mayflower Compact
federalism
confined
government bureaucracy
31. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Seperation of Powers
infectious disease
Conord Massachusetts
The Great Compromise
32. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
infectious disease
separation of powers
Farewell Address
Civil War
33. 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
secondary sources
Common Sense
Gibbons vs. Ogden
mercantilism
34. Robert Fulton
federalist
Steamboat
Patrick Henry
unalienable right
35. Changing iron into steal
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
textile
prohibited
Bessemer Process
36. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
amendment
Telegraph
Seperation of Powers
finalcial resources
37. 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
resolution
Gibbons vs. Ogden
federal
Treaty of Paris of 1763
38. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
legitmacy
Harriet Tubman
efficiency
devastated
39. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
President Thomas Jefferson
rural
James Madison
tariff
40. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
Patrick Henry
Navigation Acts
ninth amendment
prohibited
41. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Emancipation Proclamations
government bureaucracy
Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
42. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Mexican Cession
confined
Navigation Acts
literacy rate
43. Having to do with clothing
mercantilism
textile
cultivation
third amendment
44. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
primary sources
Jefferson Davis
per capita income
accusations
45. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
government bureaucracy
currency
46. 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.'
Robert E. Lee
Andrew Jackson
Patrick Henry
possessions
47. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Thirteenth Amendment
raw materials
John C. Calhoun
urban
48. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
antifederalist
sixth amendment
federal
Impeach
49. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
King George III
infectious disease
antifederalist
sixth amendment
50. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
diversity
Steel Plow
population boom
consumer demand
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