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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. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
separation of powers
Bill of Rights
Samuel Adams
Federalist Papers
2. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Tenth Amedment
literacy rate
The first shots of the American Revolution
King George III
3. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
cottage industry
Thomas Jefferson
command economy
population boom
4. 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
population boom
relevant
magna carta
mercantilism
5. Not allowed
confined
prohibited
population boom
per capita income
6. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
tyranny
federalism
William Lloyd Garrison
population growth
7. 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
relevant
The Declaration of Independence
textile
absolute monarch
8. Short speech given by Abrahman Lincoln to dedicate a cemetry for soliders who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is considered a profound statement of American ideals. Four score and seven years ago - our fathers....and that governemtn of the peopl
adjacent
democratic republic
Gettysburg Adress
The Constitution of the United States
9. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
urban
tariff
antifederalist
Daniel Webster
10. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
nullify
Andrew Jackson
secondary sources
famine
11. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
Gibbons vs. Ogden
tariff
federalism
Bessemer Process
12. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
diversity
free enterprise
population density
James Madison
13. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
Democracy
commader
Proclamation of 1763
theocracy
14. 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
Patrick Henry
Andrew Jackson
popular soverignty
Telegraph
15. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
population boom
Proclamation of 1763
ninth amendment
secede
16. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
crossroads
export
autocracy
distribution
17. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
abolition
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Democracy
route
18. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
End of the American Revolution
Farewell Address
Navigation Acts
Steamboat
19. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
provisions
amendment
Jefferson Davis
Battle of Gettysburg
20. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
Thirteenth Amendment
state's rights
landlocked
second amendment
21. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Bessemer Process
Jefferson Davis
accusations
livstock
22. Compliantes againsts a person or state
grievance
Steel Plow
gross domestic product
draft
23. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
primary sources
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Daniel Webster
state's rights
24. Robert Fulton
commader
turmoil
treason
Steamboat
25. A point at which an important decision must be made
Northwest Ordiance
Battle of Gettysburg
population boom
crossroads
26. 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
Democracy
popular culture 'pop culture'
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
27. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Northwest Ordiance
Tea Act
cottage industry
export
28. Important; of consequence
command economy
foreign policy
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
significant
29. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
foreign policy
population growth
harsh
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
30. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
turmoil
rural
livstock
Abraham Lincoln
31. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
subsistence economy
Conord Massachusetts
commercial
prospertiy
32. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
limited government
standard of living
Democracy
provisions
33. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
export
direct representation
primary sources
34. 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.'
federalism
Patrick Henry
draft
Cotton Gin
35. Abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
livstock
milestones
landlocked
36. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
cottage industry
infectious disease
Gibbons vs. Ogden
harsh
37. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
consumer demand
Battle of Gettysburg
birthrate
per capita income
38. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
Farewell Address
Northwest Ordiance
route
first amendment
39. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
magna carta
Samuel Adams
Judicial Review
life expectancy
40. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
tyranny
Telegraph
unalienable right
41. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Alexander Hamilton
Mexican Cession
The Great Compromise
Harriet Tubman
42. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
Farewell Address
Harriet Tubman
abolition
43. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
labor force
market economy
Alexander Hamilton
John C. Calhoun
44. The right to vote
antifederalist
suffrage
Marbury vs. Madison
federalism
45. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
primary sources
third amendment
grievance
The first shots of the American Revolution
46. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
currency
amendment
Ulysses S grant
absolute monarch
47. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
free enterprise economy
checks and balances
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
48. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
sixth amendment
popular culture 'pop culture'
state's rights
finalcial resources
49. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Daniel Webster
population growth
Tenth Amedment
Emancipation Proclamations
50. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
civil disobedience
militia
treason
absolute monarch