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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. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
antifederalist
diversity
diplomatic relations
command economy
2. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
rural
popular soverignty
Appomattox Curt House
democratic republic
3. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
commercial
The Constitution of the United States
adjacent
4. Important; of consequence
population density
Patrick Henry
sixth amendment
significant
5. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
migration
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
gross domestic product
separation of powers
6. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
Henry Clay
End of the American Revolution
draft
gross domestic product
7. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
prospertiy
treason
Thomas Jefferson
distribution
8. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
secede
free enterprise
Bessemer Process
The first shots of the American Revolution
9. Things that you own
possessions
abolition
second amendment
absolute monarch
10. 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
Thomas Jefferson
Federalist Papers
Harriet Tubman
adjacent
11. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
secondary sources
Common Sense
technological advances
ninth amendment
12. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Battle of Saratoga
standard of living
migration
separation of powers
13. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
antifederalist
commader
magna carta
devastated
14. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
command economy
Interchangeable Parts
End of the American Revolution
federalist
15. Changing iron into steal
textile
Bessemer Process
nullify
Tenth Amedment
16. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
treason
free enterprise economy
Civil War
legitmacy
17. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
significant
The first shots of the American Revolution
Telegraph
standard of living
18. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
democratic republic
export
Robert E. Lee
Federalist Papers
19. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
technological advances
tariff
autocracy
Ulysses S grant
20. Living in a country
autocracy
Gettysburg Adress
rural
censorship
21. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
diversity
crossroads
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
President Thomas Jefferson
22. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
foreign policy
life expectancy
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
23. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
finalcial resources
commercial
prospertiy
James Madison
24. 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
primary sources
Tea Act
Fifteenth Amendment
sixth amendment
25. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Mexican Cession
James Monroe
popular soverignty
infected
26. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
popular soverignty
autocracy
cottage industry
Ulysses S grant
27. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Frederick Douglas
The Great Compromise
Appomattox Curt House
Samuel Adams
28. Women's rights organizer
Mexican Cession
Susan B Anothony
The Great Compromise
confined
29. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
rural
ninth amendment
Tenth Amedment
birthrate
30. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
urban
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Treaty of Paris of 1763
ratify
31. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
third amendment
diversity
confined
Civil War
32. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
First shot of Civil War
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
33. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
checks and balances
raw materials
34. Improtant points in an event
milestones
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
acquire
35. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
finalcial resources
command economy
federalism
grievance
36. 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
Gibbons vs. Ogden
magna carta
President Thomas Jefferson
amend
37. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
Fifteenth Amendment
labor force
Harriet Tubman
federal
38. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
amendment
state's rights
Civil War
secondary sources
39. Realting to an event
cultivation
relevant
subsistence economy
birthrate
40. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
John C. Calhoun
textile
infectious disease
relevant
41. A point at which an important decision must be made
crossroads
significant
Samuel Adams
provisions
42. Relationships that exsits between governments
diplomatic relations
unalienable right
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
nullify
43. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
cultivation
Seperation of Powers
Democracy
standard of living
44. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Impeach
milestones
population boom
45. 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)
Battle of Gettysburg
Seperation of Powers
confined
consumer demand
46. Having to do with clothing
limited government
cultivation
tyranny
textile
47. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
rural
Impeach
Reaper
Battle of Gettysburg
48. 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
Democracy
End of the American Revolution
provisions
federalism
49. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
textile
market economy
censorship
Mayflower Compact
50. An act of the Second Continental Congress - adopted on July 4 - 1776 - which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were 'Free and Independent States' and that 'all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain - is a
civil disobedience
Bessemer Process
The Declaration of Independence
Seperation of Powers