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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. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
prospertiy
first amendment
labor force
secondary sources
2. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
Navigation Acts
population growth
life expectancy
Democracy
3. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Cotton Gin
Judicial Review
Democracy
William Lloyd Garrison
4. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
geographical
commader
Patrick Henry
federalist
5. The right to vote
suffrage
Marbury vs. Madison
Mayflower Compact
Cotton Gin
6. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
harsh
Abraham Lincoln
export
Mayflower Compact
7. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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8. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
draft
absolute monarch
autocracy
Farewell Address
9. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
distribution
Tea Act
Daniel Webster
ratify
10. Stated that - 'no state..can lawfully get out of the Union..' bt pledged there would be no war unless the South started it - was ment to hlep heal and resore the country after four years of the Civil War
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11. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
second amendment
gross domestic product
mercantilism
Thirteenth Amendment
12. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Ulysses S grant
Harriet Tubman
nullification
Conord Massachusetts
13. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
gross domestic product
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
diplomatic relations
Emancipation Proclamations
14. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
accusations
antifederalist
Henry Clay
significant
15. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
prospertiy
literacy rate
Harriet Tubman
secede
16. Women's rights organizer
diversity
mercantilism
Susan B Anothony
militia
17. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
Fourteenth Amendment
checks and balances
militia
tariff
18. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
free enterprise economy
Reaper
government bureaucracy
third amendment
19. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
amend
primary sources
legitmacy
Battle of Saratoga
20. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Civil War
prospertiy
Common Sense
literacy rate
21. Means to improve by vote
resolution
Federalist Papers
ratify
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
22. Things that you own
per capita income
The Constitution of the United States
possessions
Gettysburg Adress
23. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
confined
Bill of Rights
James Monroe
24. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Bill of Rights
checks and balances
The Great Compromise
Mayflower Compact
25. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Tenth Amedment
Treaty of Paris of 1763
subsistence economy
famine
26. Ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America; ended the American Revolution and foreced Britian to recginze the United States as an idependent Nations
Patrick Henry
Jefferson Davis
Treaty of Paris of 1763
diplomatic relations
27. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
infectious disease
Robert E. Lee
censorship
tyranny
28. 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
federalist
End of the American Revolution
James Madison
Fifteenth Amendment
29. Compliantes againsts a person or state
Thirteenth Amendment
unalienable right
grievance
legitmacy
30. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
popular culture 'pop culture'
secondary sources
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
theocracy
31. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
cultivation
third amendment
route
militia
32. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frederick Douglas
John C. Calhoun
The first shots of the American Revolution
33. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
Patrick Henry
cottage industry
population boom
relevant
34. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
popular soverignty
direct representation
secondary sources
route
35. To obtain or receive
Henry Clay
sixth amendment
Marbury vs. Madison
acquire
36. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Civil War
censorship
labor force
famine
37. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
geographical
route
Jefferson Davis
38. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
antifederalist
free enterprise
Jamestown
federalist
39. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
devastated
Robert E. Lee
provisions
40. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
diplomatic relations
Tea Act
commader
civil disobedience
41. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
free enterprise economy
antifederalist
direct representation
The Declaration of Independence
42. Established a system of setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the UNion. its consitution had to provide for a representative governemnt and ithad to prohibit slavery
Impeach
Northwest Ordiance
Emancipation Proclamations
export
43. To be compeletly destroyed
William Lloyd Garrison
nullification
per capita income
devastated
44. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
The first shots of the American Revolution
tariff
Impeach
Tea Act
45. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
President Thomas Jefferson
third amendment
landlocked
popular culture 'pop culture'
46. 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
tariff
significant
Tenth Amedment
Marbury vs. Madison
47. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
subsistence economy
commercial
migration
consumer demand
48. 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
Steamboat
primary sources
population density
grievance
49. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
relevant
Steamboat
Jefferson Davis
Judicial Review
50. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
Steel Plow
gross domestic product
accusations
acquire