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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. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Thomas Jefferson
confined
Fourteenth Amendment
mercantilism
2. A point at which an important decision must be made
amendment
secondary sources
crossroads
technological advances
3. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
state's rights
The Declaration of Independence
Impeach
export
4. 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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5. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
popular soverignty
direct representation
popular culture 'pop culture'
literacy rate
6. To withdraw or pull away
secede
provisions
federal
magna carta
7. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
checks and balances
Battle of Gettysburg
per capita income
economic status
8. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
Marbury vs. Madison
Bessemer Process
James Madison
prospertiy
9. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
market economy
nullification
abolition
adjacent
10. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
commader
Samuel Adams
William Lloyd Garrison
livstock
11. John Deere
consumer demand
Jamestown
autocracy
Steel Plow
12. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
Reaper
democratic republic
diversity
possessions
13. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Common Sense
Gettysburg Adress
federal
Samuel Adams
14. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
accusations
turmoil
state's rights
treason
15. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Proclamation of 1763
urban
sixth amendment
Andrew Jackson
16. Things that you own
population growth
possessions
Impeach
Emancipation Proclamations
17. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
market economy
benjamin franklin
Henry Clay
18. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Gettysburg
treason
Emancipation Proclamations
19. 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.
adjacent
Fourteenth Amendment
geographical
sixth amendment
20. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
export
Bill of Rights
subsistence economy
route
21. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
infectious disease
market economy
Frederick Douglas
significant
22. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
checks and balances
raw materials
legitmacy
Daniel Webster
23. Important; of consequence
Northwest Ordiance
Robert E. Lee
significant
Reaper
24. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
confined
resolution
third amendment
standard of living
25. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Jamestown
raw materials
secede
Harriet Tubman
26. Having to do with clothing
Interchangeable Parts
The Constitution of the United States
textile
prohibited
27. Women's rights organizer
commercial
grievance
Harriet Tubman
Susan B Anothony
28. 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
Conord Massachusetts
Tenth Amedment
Daniel Webster
29. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
currency
command economy
Northwest Ordiance
Civil War
30. Living in a country
Battle of Saratoga
Steamboat
rural
birthrate
31. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
milestones
Andrew Jackson
The Great Compromise
Jefferson Davis
32. Eli Whitney
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
possessions
life expectancy
Interchangeable Parts
33. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
federalist
second amendment
Northwest Ordiance
population density
34. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
crossroads
free enterprise
geographical
civil disobedience
35. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
technological advances
Gibbons vs. Ogden
separation of powers
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
36. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
ratify
First shot of Civil War
Steel Plow
Impeach
37. 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
Jefferson Davis
Mexican Cession
End of the American Revolution
Gettysburg Adress
38. 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
antifederalist
Federalist Papers
Democracy
Jefferson Davis
39. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
significant
direct representation
Farewell Address
40. Important to a certain event or topic
textile
prohibited
significant
accusations
41. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
censorship
labor force
turmoil
relevant
42. 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)
separation of powers
migration
unalienable right
Steel Plow
43. 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
secondary sources
Gibbons vs. Ogden
acquire
cottage industry
44. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
harsh
censorship
King George III
mercantilism
45. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
state's rights
Cotton Gin
federalism
46. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
Robert E. Lee
sixth amendment
treason
direct representation
47. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
commader
prohibited
second amendment
President Thomas Jefferson
48. Is a cruel and unjust government
popular soverignty
The Constitution of the United States
tyranny
prohibited
49. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
federalist
devastated
turmoil
magna carta
50. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
federalism
route
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Andrew Jackson