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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. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
primary sources
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
Tea Act
2. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
infectious disease
federalist
cultivation
3. Is a cruel and unjust government
tyranny
popular culture 'pop culture'
raw materials
absolute monarch
4. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
Fourteenth Amendment
distribution
benjamin franklin
abolition
5. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
subsistence economy
free enterprise economy
crossroads
benjamin franklin
6. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Northwest Ordiance
accusations
Battle of Gettysburg
First shot of Civil War
7. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
geographical
Tenth Amedment
efficiency
King George III
8. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
prospertiy
King George III
John C. Calhoun
efficiency
9. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
landlocked
Ulysses S grant
federalism
10. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
diplomatic relations
famine
migration
11. 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.
commercial
government bureaucracy
Mayflower Compact
market economy
12. To be compeletly destroyed
abolition
infectious disease
relevant
devastated
13. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
resolution
Battle of Saratoga
textile
commader
14. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Reaper
tariff
Conord Massachusetts
15. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
Samuel Adams
diversity
subsistence economy
textile
16. Abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
Steel Plow
command economy
autocracy
17. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
Steamboat
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
theocracy
government bureaucracy
18. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
secede
currency
population boom
censorship
19. John Deere
Steel Plow
efficiency
Frederick Douglas
Civil War
20. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
21. 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)
population density
landlocked
consumer demand
Seperation of Powers
22. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
confined
Emancipation Proclamations
second amendment
federalism
23. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
Bessemer Process
market economy
confined
Seperation of Powers
24. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
censorship
The Constitution of the United States
limited government
infectious disease
25. 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
26. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
famine
Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun
third amendment
27. A point at which an important decision must be made
treason
Andrew Jackson
crossroads
relevant
28. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
migration
Democracy
free enterprise
population growth
29. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
federalist
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
draft
democratic republic
30. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
nullify
Henry Clay
James Madison
Democracy
31. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Proclamation of 1763
Telegraph
John C. Calhoun
Seperation of Powers
32. The right to vote
suffrage
prohibited
Steamboat
Susan B Anothony
33. Established a system of setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the UNion. its consitution had to provide for a representative governemnt and ithad to prohibit slavery
Ulysses S grant
Interchangeable Parts
Northwest Ordiance
End of the American Revolution
34. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
gross domestic product
raw materials
Alexander Hamilton
turmoil
35. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
Samuel Adams
cultivation
Judicial Review
popular soverignty
36. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
The first shots of the American Revolution
Common Sense
nullify
Mexican Cession
37. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
economic status
landlocked
checks and balances
birthrate
38. To withdraw or pull away
birthrate
route
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
secede
39. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
John C. Calhoun
consumer demand
Battle of Gettysburg
free enterprise economy
40. Robert Fulton
subsistence economy
significant
The Constitution of the United States
Steamboat
41. Realting to an event
relevant
standard of living
Proclamation of 1763
popular culture 'pop culture'
42. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Civil War
Steamboat
Battle of Saratoga
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
43. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Seperation of Powers
confined
free enterprise
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
44. Widespread hunger within a given region
antifederalist
Marbury vs. Madison
Jefferson Davis
famine
45. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
textile
Tea Act
secede
Fourteenth Amendment
46. 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
suffrage
Fourteenth Amendment
secondary sources
Marbury vs. Madison
47. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
The Great Compromise
provisions
significant
confined
48. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Farewell Address
diplomatic relations
command economy
Jamestown
49. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
50. 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
free enterprise
Bill of Rights
livstock
primary sources