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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. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
Treaty of Paris of 1763
devastated
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
2. Is a cruel and unjust government
theocracy
draft
Marbury vs. Madison
tyranny
3. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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4. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Steel Plow
End of the American Revolution
commader
literacy rate
5. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
legitmacy
popular soverignty
amendment
civil disobedience
6. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
prohibited
famine
draft
Samuel Adams
7. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
Bill of Rights
significant
life expectancy
Marbury vs. Madison
8. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
limited government
antifederalist
Tenth Amedment
popular soverignty
9. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
population density
Bill of Rights
crossroads
Tenth Amedment
10. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
suffrage
Judicial Review
commader
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
11. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
The first shots of the American Revolution
diplomatic relations
James Monroe
First shot of Civil War
12. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
Jefferson Davis
provisions
Robert E. Lee
13. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
Reaper
abolition
Battle of Gettysburg
civil disobedience
14. Not allowed
federalist
prohibited
infected
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
15. Important; of consequence
Civil War
significant
third amendment
popular soverignty
16. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
End of the American Revolution
Andrew Jackson
Navigation Acts
popular soverignty
17. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
Ulysses S grant
militia
birthrate
economic status
18. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Civil War
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
King George III
economic status
19. To withdraw or pull away
The Constitution of the United States
commader
James Madison
secede
20. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
provisions
Fifteenth Amendment
harsh
autocracy
21. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
landlocked
The first shots of the American Revolution
antifederalist
separation of powers
22. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
Federalist Papers
democratic republic
federalism
censorship
23. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
significant
Gibbons vs. Ogden
government bureaucracy
market economy
24. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
legitmacy
rural
Frederick Douglas
Mexican Cession
25. 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
primary sources
urban
prohibited
End of the American Revolution
26. 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
Bill of Rights
amend
mercantilism
Impeach
27. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
geographical
militia
Mexican Cession
Henry Clay
28. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
amend
censorship
federalist
free enterprise economy
29. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
checks and balances
amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
federalism
30. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
acquire
cultivation
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
route
31. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Farewell Address
tariff
Seperation of Powers
Thirteenth Amendment
32. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
milestones
Battle of Saratoga
Democracy
legitmacy
33. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
raw materials
grievance
resolution
popular culture 'pop culture'
34. 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)
milestones
unalienable right
Common Sense
Impeach
35. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
market economy
command economy
Appomattox Curt House
third amendment
36. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Common Sense
Battle of Gettysburg
Susan B Anothony
consumer demand
37. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
livstock
infectious disease
Steamboat
abolition
38. 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
possessions
End of the American Revolution
currency
Battle of Saratoga
39. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
diversity
infected
President Thomas Jefferson
population boom
40. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
possessions
Thomas Jefferson
finalcial resources
Fourteenth Amendment
41. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
finalcial resources
King George III
Susan B Anothony
Harriet Tubman
42. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Patrick Henry
possessions
The first shots of the American Revolution
Ulysses S grant
43. Widespread hunger within a given region
famine
commercial
ratify
Civil War
44. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
federalist
Battle of Gettysburg
unalienable right
amendment
45. Women's rights organizer
legitmacy
Susan B Anothony
standard of living
Daniel Webster
46. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
Gettysburg Adress
third amendment
geographical
possessions
47. Things that you own
Jamestown
federalist
possessions
finalcial resources
48. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Thomas Jefferson
milestones
Frederick Douglas
free enterprise economy
49. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
Cotton Gin
confined
population density
prospertiy
50. Moving from one place to antoher
democratic republic
Appomattox Curt House
migration
Alexander Hamilton