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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Eli Whitney
Seperation of Powers
Interchangeable Parts
Civil War
resolution
2. 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';
direct representation
James Madison
The Constitution of the United States
state's rights
3. 'Father of the Constitution'
distribution
James Madison
accusations
President Thomas Jefferson
4. General of the confederate army
benjamin franklin
Common Sense
federalism
Robert E. Lee
5. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
autocracy
accusations
popular soverignty
secondary sources
6. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
The Great Compromise
draft
Farewell Address
The Declaration of Independence
7. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
Telegraph
confined
antifederalist
Steel Plow
8. 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
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
significant
The Declaration of Independence
provisions
9. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Federalist Papers
Thirteenth Amendment
Mexican Cession
Steel Plow
10. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
route
labor force
currency
The Great Compromise
11. Led to the Boston Tea Party
civil disobedience
Tea Act
free enterprise
crossroads
12. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
popular soverignty
The first shots of the American Revolution
secondary sources
life expectancy
13. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
Conord Massachusetts
Susan B Anothony
Emancipation Proclamations
14. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Battle of Saratoga
second amendment
birthrate
diplomatic relations
15. 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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16. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
William Lloyd Garrison
democratic republic
Cotton Gin
Bill of Rights
17. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
legitmacy
The Constitution of the United States
William Lloyd Garrison
Jamestown
18. Improtant points in an event
draft
command economy
milestones
secede
19. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
William Lloyd Garrison
raw materials
Robert E. Lee
literacy rate
20. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
Steel Plow
population density
population growth
21. To obtain or receive
Federalist Papers
acquire
ratify
Frederick Douglas
22. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
second amendment
finalcial resources
primary sources
Andrew Jackson
23. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
James Monroe
Reaper
militia
Judicial Review
24. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
command economy
nullification
nullify
The Great Compromise
25. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
diversity
Civil War
Federalist Papers
nullification
26. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
limited government
antifederalist
first amendment
diversity
27. Women's rights organizer
Susan B Anothony
suffrage
Steel Plow
Cotton Gin
28. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
commader
Treaty of Paris of 1763
nullification
29. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
Farewell Address
efficiency
Navigation Acts
cottage industry
30. 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
standard of living
Henry Clay
Alexander Hamilton
crossroads
31. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
abolition
Steamboat
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
landlocked
32. To change
First shot of Civil War
population boom
Interchangeable Parts
amend
33. 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
Treaty of Paris of 1763
crossroads
milestones
End of the American Revolution
34. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
Gibbons vs. Ogden
infected
Telegraph
35. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
ratify
provisions
per capita income
Cotton Gin
36. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
The Declaration of Independence
Fourteenth Amendment
militia
Appomattox Curt House
37. 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
diplomatic relations
devastated
mercantilism
sixth amendment
38. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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39. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
government bureaucracy
The Constitution of the United States
textile
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
40. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Bessemer Process
Federalist Papers
The Great Compromise
literacy rate
41. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
government bureaucracy
Tenth Amedment
third amendment
Jamestown
42. Having to do with business
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Alexander Hamilton
commercial
literacy rate
43. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
The first shots of the American Revolution
King George III
Thomas Jefferson
treason
44. Important to a certain event or topic
significant
censorship
amendment
End of the American Revolution
45. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
turmoil
prospertiy
milestones
cottage industry
46. Things that you own
popular culture 'pop culture'
possessions
Battle of Saratoga
birthrate
47. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
literacy rate
Democracy
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
48. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
Alexander Hamilton
commercial
technological advances
textile
49. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
birthrate
prospertiy
Tenth Amedment
The first shots of the American Revolution
50. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Common Sense
separation of powers
milestones
per capita income
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