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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. 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)
crossroads
Steamboat
unalienable right
Judicial Review
2. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
direct representation
Seperation of Powers
life expectancy
Reaper
3. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Civil War
censorship
Fifteenth Amendment
Battle of Saratoga
4. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
secede
life expectancy
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
geographical
5. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
antifederalist
unalienable right
textile
Marbury vs. Madison
6. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Mayflower Compact
militia
devastated
Ulysses S grant
7. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
Andrew Jackson
amendment
cottage industry
Ulysses S grant
8. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
Andrew Jackson
geographical
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
magna carta
9. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
resolution
federalist
free enterprise economy
federalism
10. 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
finalcial resources
Jamestown
End of the American Revolution
federalism
11. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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12. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Judicial Review
censorship
Proclamation of 1763
tyranny
13. 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
primary sources
King George III
mercantilism
famine
14. 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
crossroads
state's rights
economic status
Federalist Papers
15. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
The first shots of the American Revolution
amend
significant
economic status
16. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
free enterprise
Battle of Saratoga
federalist
migration
17. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
relevant
acquire
harsh
infectious disease
18. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
diversity
consumer demand
migration
mercantilism
19. The right to vote
Jefferson Davis
popular soverignty
Gettysburg Adress
suffrage
20. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
federalism
landlocked
limited government
militia
21. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
King George III
command economy
Daniel Webster
democratic republic
22. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
Farewell Address
infectious disease
Bill of Rights
23. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
prospertiy
market economy
benjamin franklin
route
24. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
End of the American Revolution
James Monroe
government bureaucracy
Steamboat
25. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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26. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
subsistence economy
Patrick Henry
per capita income
27. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
federalism
Gettysburg Adress
Farewell Address
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
28. 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.
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
sixth amendment
militia
Susan B Anothony
29. Important; of consequence
Susan B Anothony
livstock
federalism
significant
30. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
resolution
Battle of Gettysburg
free enterprise
Jamestown
31. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
amendment
Susan B Anothony
route
Common Sense
32. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
labor force
censorship
landlocked
free enterprise
33. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
famine
second amendment
infected
provisions
34. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Bessemer Process
federal
Jefferson Davis
amend
35. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
theocracy
state's rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
migration
36. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
significant
checks and balances
Tea Act
birthrate
37. Led to the Boston Tea Party
amendment
resolution
Tea Act
famine
38. 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
distribution
The Declaration of Independence
migration
efficiency
39. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
accusations
migration
Battle of Gettysburg
Farewell Address
40. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Battle of Gettysburg
population boom
secondary sources
censorship
41. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Emancipation Proclamations
Marbury vs. Madison
literacy rate
42. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
labor force
Treaty of Paris of 1763
cottage industry
Civil War
43. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Gettysburg Adress
Treaty of Paris of 1763
nullification
44. Things that you own
possessions
magna carta
prohibited
direct representation
45. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
mercantilism
First shot of Civil War
milestones
46. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
confined
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
First shot of Civil War
The Constitution of the United States
47. Moving from one place to antoher
third amendment
Farewell Address
migration
Samuel Adams
48. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
significant
Bill of Rights
Ulysses S grant
49. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Appomattox Curt House
Seperation of Powers
literacy rate
population density
50. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
consumer demand
Robert E. Lee
per capita income
James Monroe