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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. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
subsistence economy
population density
devastated
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
2. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
accusations
Tenth Amedment
livstock
famine
3. 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
Northwest Ordiance
civil disobedience
absolute monarch
Fifteenth Amendment
4. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
foreign policy
federalism
commercial
cultivation
5. 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
federalist
Alexander Hamilton
John C. Calhoun
Harriet Tubman
6. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
efficiency
draft
technological advances
Mexican Cession
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)
amend
currency
significant
unalienable right
8. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Harriet Tubman
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Gibbons vs. Ogden
per capita income
9. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
efficiency
significant
theocracy
10. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
livstock
James Madison
turmoil
11. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
James Monroe
The Great Compromise
grievance
finalcial resources
12. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
abolition
popular soverignty
direct representation
Northwest Ordiance
13. General of the confederate army
First shot of Civil War
Robert E. Lee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
absolute monarch
14. An agreement singed in 1620 b the Pilgrims in Playmouth - to consult each other baout laws for the colony and a promise to work together to make it succeed. Postive step towards self - rule.
Mayflower Compact
textile
market economy
export
15. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
free enterprise economy
Mayflower Compact
Ulysses S grant
King George III
16. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
The Constitution of the United States
magna carta
Frederick Douglas
separation of powers
17. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
export
ninth amendment
Steamboat
first amendment
18. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
efficiency
technological advances
civil disobedience
state's rights
19. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
population growth
Patrick Henry
unalienable right
direct representation
20. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
significant
benjamin franklin
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Civil War
21. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
Daniel Webster
theocracy
famine
Tea Act
22. Women's rights organizer
Susan B Anothony
Telegraph
popular soverignty
cultivation
23. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Fourteenth Amendment
Jefferson Davis
King George III
free enterprise economy
24. To withdraw or pull away
secede
labor force
primary sources
Susan B Anothony
25. 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.
John C. Calhoun
First shot of Civil War
sixth amendment
Robert E. Lee
26. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
government bureaucracy
Impeach
limited government
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
27. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Thomas Jefferson
possessions
The first shots of the American Revolution
separation of powers
28. 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
Navigation Acts
primary sources
legitmacy
prohibited
29. Having to do with business
Northwest Ordiance
milestones
commercial
state's rights
30. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
significant
mercantilism
prospertiy
urban
31. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Seperation of Powers
nullify
The Great Compromise
First shot of Civil War
32. Is a cruel and unjust government
Steel Plow
migration
Fifteenth Amendment
tyranny
33. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
ratify
third amendment
federalism
Harriet Tubman
34. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
provisions
raw materials
geographical
adjacent
35. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Common Sense
nullify
Fifteenth Amendment
geographical
36. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
standard of living
finalcial resources
Mayflower Compact
Mexican Cession
37. To obtain or receive
limited government
acquire
Steel Plow
Bessemer Process
38. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
diplomatic relations
landlocked
Jamestown
Ulysses S grant
39. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Alexander Hamilton
Henry Clay
ratify
technological advances
40. Compliantes againsts a person or state
Federalist Papers
federal
grievance
treason
41. Not allowed
Emancipation Proclamations
prohibited
magna carta
Federalist Papers
42. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
federalist
state's rights
devastated
Impeach
43. 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
Daniel Webster
Federalist Papers
Proclamation of 1763
Civil War
44. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
adjacent
John C. Calhoun
textile
infectious disease
45. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
government bureaucracy
acquire
Gibbons vs. Ogden
population boom
46. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
commercial
gross domestic product
William Lloyd Garrison
export
47. 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';
legitmacy
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
The Constitution of the United States
Steamboat
48. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
Jamestown
foreign policy
Henry Clay
autocracy
49. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
livstock
resolution
second amendment
standard of living
50. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Northwest Ordiance
unalienable right
amend
Cotton Gin