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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. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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2. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
free enterprise
Battle of Saratoga
commercial
grievance
3. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
Steel Plow
legitmacy
militia
autocracy
4. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
diplomatic relations
milestones
Impeach
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
5. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
Conord Massachusetts
mercantilism
6. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
autocracy
life expectancy
Harriet Tubman
Mexican Cession
7. John Deere
life expectancy
command economy
Steel Plow
benjamin franklin
8. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
textile
free enterprise
population density
9. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
treason
Fifteenth Amendment
Appomattox Curt House
infectious disease
10. 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
landlocked
The Constitution of the United States
primary sources
Telegraph
11. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
democratic republic
standard of living
draft
sixth amendment
12. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
abolition
direct representation
currency
nullification
13. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
acquire
benjamin franklin
First shot of Civil War
Samuel Adams
14. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Seperation of Powers
Frederick Douglas
ninth amendment
Reaper
15. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
adjacent
commercial
free enterprise economy
Appomattox Curt House
16. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
federal
Telegraph
Fifteenth Amendment
significant
17. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
mercantilism
President Thomas Jefferson
Tea Act
significant
18. 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.
The first shots of the American Revolution
Mayflower Compact
Bill of Rights
Emancipation Proclamations
19. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
Marbury vs. Madison
legitmacy
antifederalist
ninth amendment
20. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
Judicial Review
currency
Samuel Adams
acquire
21. 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.
sixth amendment
William Lloyd Garrison
commercial
landlocked
22. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
secondary sources
The Declaration of Independence
grievance
democratic republic
23. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
literacy rate
second amendment
unalienable right
ninth amendment
24. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
prohibited
nullify
infectious disease
population density
25. Eli Whitney
popular soverignty
Interchangeable Parts
Mayflower Compact
Tea Act
26. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
urban
route
The Constitution of the United States
Conord Massachusetts
27. Improtant points in an event
landlocked
prohibited
milestones
secede
28. Not allowed
primary sources
amendment
prohibited
unalienable right
29. The right to vote
urban
federalism
suffrage
Gettysburg Adress
30. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Jamestown
cultivation
Democracy
antifederalist
31. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Jamestown
First shot of Civil War
Steel Plow
famine
32. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
textile
command economy
Daniel Webster
Seperation of Powers
33. 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
checks and balances
raw materials
infectious disease
34. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
export
Democracy
diversity
command economy
35. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
resolution
Susan B Anothony
censorship
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
36. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
life expectancy
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Cotton Gin
nullify
37. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
popular soverignty
state's rights
grievance
cottage industry
38. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
censorship
relevant
federalism
treason
39. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
federalism
checks and balances
Mayflower Compact
amendment
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
Jamestown
civil disobedience
abolition
federal
41. 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
textile
The Declaration of Independence
livstock
amendment
42. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
amendment
population boom
cottage industry
secede
43. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
ninth amendment
federalism
Steamboat
44. 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
Thirteenth Amendment
autocracy
mercantilism
James Monroe
45. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
Battle of Saratoga
federalist
abolition
Northwest Ordiance
46. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
birthrate
command economy
Fifteenth Amendment
consumer demand
47. Robert Fulton
Robert E. Lee
Steamboat
Navigation Acts
state's rights
48. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
Cotton Gin
Northwest Ordiance
The Declaration of Independence
harsh
49. 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)
sixth amendment
consumer demand
Steamboat
Harriet Tubman
50. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
diversity
Proclamation of 1763
amend