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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
acquire
provisions
raw materials
consumer demand
2. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
Daniel Webster
provisions
limited government
route
3. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
life expectancy
Farewell Address
state's rights
John C. Calhoun
4. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
diversity
theocracy
gross domestic product
censorship
5. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
migration
commercial
Farewell Address
per capita income
6. John Deere
federal
Steel Plow
government bureaucracy
birthrate
7. Samuel Morse
magna carta
Impeach
Telegraph
Andrew Jackson
8. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
command economy
ninth amendment
infected
livstock
9. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
export
Conord Massachusetts
Ulysses S grant
literacy rate
10. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
draft
free enterprise economy
secede
resolution
11. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
checks and balances
third amendment
James Madison
12. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
per capita income
textile
Harriet Tubman
amendment
13. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
amendment
Gettysburg Adress
separation of powers
Henry Clay
14. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
Appomattox Curt House
civil disobedience
James Madison
15. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
government bureaucracy
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Civil War
crossroads
16. To be compeletly destroyed
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Fifteenth Amendment
James Madison
devastated
17. 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
unalienable right
Alexander Hamilton
Steel Plow
significant
18. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
third amendment
state's rights
cottage industry
19. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Farewell Address
distribution
rural
The Great Compromise
20. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
federalism
Battle of Saratoga
labor force
21. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
diversity
federalism
population density
Gibbons vs. Ogden
22. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
Thirteenth Amendment
mercantilism
militia
raw materials
23. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
first amendment
Conord Massachusetts
The first shots of the American Revolution
consumer demand
24. Relationships that exsits between governments
Interchangeable Parts
diplomatic relations
Federalist Papers
government bureaucracy
25. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Battle of Saratoga
amendment
Steel Plow
Fourteenth Amendment
26. 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
first amendment
Robert E. Lee
livstock
primary sources
27. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
geographical
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Tea Act
direct representation
28. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
tyranny
efficiency
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
textile
29. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
per capita income
secondary sources
censorship
nullification
30. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
secede
gross domestic product
second amendment
federalist
31. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Alexander Hamilton
federalism
The Declaration of Independence
Proclamation of 1763
32. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
autocracy
Interchangeable Parts
King George III
tariff
33. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
34. 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
End of the American Revolution
amendment
William Lloyd Garrison
Battle of Gettysburg
35. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
efficiency
first amendment
Interchangeable Parts
Democracy
36. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
Daniel Webster
Thomas Jefferson
population growth
adjacent
37. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Democracy
textile
provisions
Jamestown
38. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
significant
End of the American Revolution
accusations
39. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
Democracy
adjacent
distribution
Tenth Amedment
40. Leader of the original democratic party and a 'president of the pople' he was also responsbible for the Trail of Tears - which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River
technological advances
crossroads
Andrew Jackson
primary sources
41. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
literacy rate
secondary sources
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
federalism
42. 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
free enterprise
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Impeach
diversity
43. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
labor force
provisions
prohibited
First shot of Civil War
44. Things that you own
Patrick Henry
possessions
export
diversity
45. Means to improve by vote
suffrage
textile
tariff
ratify
46. 'Father of the Constitution'
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
popular culture 'pop culture'
provisions
47. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
Proclamation of 1763
sixth amendment
population boom
accusations
48. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
life expectancy
John C. Calhoun
rural
labor force
49. 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
mercantilism
William Lloyd Garrison
foreign policy
commercial
50. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Federalist Papers
Jamestown
significant
gross domestic product