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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. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
famine
Conord Massachusetts
life expectancy
absolute monarch
2. 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
Marbury vs. Madison
geographical
popular soverignty
Abraham Lincoln
3. Compliantes againsts a person or state
Northwest Ordiance
Fifteenth Amendment
cottage industry
grievance
4. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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5. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
foreign policy
state's rights
Mexican Cession
population density
6. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
economic status
sixth amendment
consumer demand
Democracy
7. 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
subsistence economy
devastated
Cotton Gin
8. Things that you own
Mayflower Compact
possessions
Interchangeable Parts
nullification
9. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
Andrew Jackson
tariff
turmoil
autocracy
10. Robert Fulton
Steamboat
per capita income
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Treaty of Paris of 1763
11. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Battle of Saratoga
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Common Sense
Appomattox Curt House
12. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
ninth amendment
export
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Appomattox Curt House
13. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
technological advances
Tenth Amedment
currency
population density
14. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Ulysses S grant
separation of powers
suffrage
The Declaration of Independence
15. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Civil War
theocracy
Harriet Tubman
James Monroe
16. Important to a certain event or topic
Jamestown
legitmacy
secondary sources
significant
17. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Bill of Rights
theocracy
rural
raw materials
18. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
President Thomas Jefferson
draft
The Great Compromise
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
19. A point at which an important decision must be made
Samuel Adams
ninth amendment
crossroads
Battle of Saratoga
20. Living in a city
Farewell Address
life expectancy
Battle of Saratoga
urban
21. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
devastated
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
textile
Samuel Adams
22. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
state's rights
ratify
adjacent
Abraham Lincoln
23. 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
Federalist Papers
End of the American Revolution
secondary sources
Jamestown
24. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
relevant
benjamin franklin
per capita income
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
25. 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
nullification
Farewell Address
primary sources
literacy rate
26. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
President Thomas Jefferson
censorship
Proclamation of 1763
relevant
27. 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)
consumer demand
tyranny
command economy
harsh
28. To obtain or receive
Telegraph
acquire
James Madison
Seperation of Powers
29. Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts
censorship
unalienable right
King George III
30. The supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted on September 17 - 1787 - by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - and later ratified by conventions in each state in the name of 'the People';
The Constitution of the United States
subsistence economy
abolition
Democracy
31. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
primary sources
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
crossroads
32. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
treason
Ulysses S grant
secondary sources
Thirteenth Amendment
33. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
magna carta
James Monroe
prospertiy
distribution
34. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
resolution
Seperation of Powers
separation of powers
primary sources
35. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Northwest Ordiance
population boom
significant
mercantilism
36. 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.
William Lloyd Garrison
migration
sixth amendment
Civil War
37. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
Frederick Douglas
William Lloyd Garrison
cultivation
per capita income
38. 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
ratify
mercantilism
magna carta
infectious disease
39. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
possessions
foreign policy
40. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
Mexican Cession
democratic republic
mercantilism
geographical
41. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
population growth
Alexander Hamilton
milestones
federal
42. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
finalcial resources
rural
Conord Massachusetts
Appomattox Curt House
43. Widespread hunger within a given region
famine
turmoil
checks and balances
life expectancy
44. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
amend
autocracy
Bessemer Process
Appomattox Curt House
45. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
benjamin franklin
efficiency
third amendment
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
46. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
crossroads
subsistence economy
separation of powers
resolution
47. 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
geographical
Andrew Jackson
Democracy
nullify
48. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
relevant
theocracy
secondary sources
command economy
49. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Harriet Tubman
secede
population density
acquire
50. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
militia
mercantilism
Navigation Acts
treason