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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. Robert Fulton
censorship
cottage industry
standard of living
Steamboat
2. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
economic status
John C. Calhoun
diversity
direct representation
3. A point at which an important decision must be made
secede
treason
state's rights
crossroads
4. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
per capita income
Northwest Ordiance
resolution
abolition
5. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
First shot of Civil War
The first shots of the American Revolution
distribution
John C. Calhoun
6. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Interchangeable Parts
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
birthrate
7. Abolished slavery
urban
Thirteenth Amendment
amend
The Declaration of Independence
8. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
secede
The Declaration of Independence
Frederick Douglas
popular soverignty
9. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
Democracy
Common Sense
milestones
treason
10. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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11. Means to improve by vote
population boom
provisions
prospertiy
ratify
12. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Frederick Douglas
accusations
democratic republic
Ulysses S grant
13. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
finalcial resources
Henry Clay
direct representation
second amendment
14. Is a cruel and unjust government
President Thomas Jefferson
milestones
James Monroe
tyranny
15. 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
devastated
accusations
The Declaration of Independence
Alexander Hamilton
16. Improtant points in an event
Proclamation of 1763
distribution
commader
milestones
17. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
democratic republic
Jamestown
life expectancy
18. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
magna carta
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Proclamation of 1763
ratify
19. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
abolition
Ulysses S grant
End of the American Revolution
20. Passionate patriot who became fomous for his fiery speeches in favor of American Independence his most famous quote included the worlds 'give me liberty or give me Death.'
The Great Compromise
Thirteenth Amendment
Patrick Henry
Samuel Adams
21. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Proclamation of 1763
migration
Common Sense
mercantilism
22. 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
raw materials
first amendment
confined
Northwest Ordiance
23. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Battle of Gettysburg
limited government
absolute monarch
infected
24. Ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America; ended the American Revolution and foreced Britian to recginze the United States as an idependent Nations
Treaty of Paris of 1763
finalcial resources
prohibited
Navigation Acts
25. To contaminate or corup
literacy rate
infected
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
direct representation
26. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
John C. Calhoun
landlocked
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Patrick Henry
27. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
James Monroe
King George III
turmoil
Bill of Rights
28. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Reaper
birthrate
amendment
checks and balances
29. 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
Navigation Acts
limited government
primary sources
Thomas Jefferson
30. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
free enterprise economy
The Declaration of Independence
government bureaucracy
significant
31. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
gross domestic product
Seperation of Powers
Navigation Acts
export
32. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
population boom
President Thomas Jefferson
ninth amendment
diplomatic relations
33. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
devastated
consumer demand
export
Farewell Address
34. Not allowed
Telegraph
prohibited
nullify
acquire
35. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
birthrate
Democracy
federalism
confined
36. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Thomas Jefferson
Battle of Saratoga
birthrate
popular culture 'pop culture'
37. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
infectious disease
Thomas Jefferson
antifederalist
democratic republic
38. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
theocracy
Judicial Review
commercial
free enterprise
39. To change
Conord Massachusetts
Thirteenth Amendment
efficiency
amend
40. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
commercial
third amendment
The first shots of the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris of 1763
41. Things that you own
Impeach
First shot of Civil War
accusations
possessions
42. Important; of consequence
significant
rural
Bill of Rights
command economy
43. 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.
Impeach
Mayflower Compact
mercantilism
landlocked
44. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Bill of Rights
subsistence economy
relevant
Interchangeable Parts
45. Changing iron into steal
Bessemer Process
urban
diversity
Gibbons vs. Ogden
46. To withdraw or pull away
commader
secede
turmoil
Democracy
47. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
provisions
civil disobedience
textile
command economy
48. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
The Great Compromise
turmoil
landlocked
James Monroe
49. 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
democratic republic
Seperation of Powers
Andrew Jackson
theocracy
50. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Battle of Saratoga
landlocked
population density
autocracy