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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
Navigation Acts
Daniel Webster
Bill of Rights
technological advances
2. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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3. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
route
provisions
migration
Farewell Address
4. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
per capita income
Frederick Douglas
free enterprise
treason
5. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
The Constitution of the United States
labor force
treason
Farewell Address
6. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
command economy
Appomattox Curt House
Democracy
crossroads
7. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
First shot of Civil War
third amendment
John C. Calhoun
subsistence economy
8. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
per capita income
market economy
antifederalist
9. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
James Madison
tyranny
Treaty of Paris of 1763
third amendment
10. Important; of consequence
federal
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Treaty of Paris of 1763
significant
11. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
free enterprise
Samuel Adams
acquire
John C. Calhoun
12. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
milestones
abolition
End of the American Revolution
cottage industry
13. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
popular culture 'pop culture'
free enterprise economy
life expectancy
legitmacy
14. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Federalist Papers
labor force
infectious disease
prohibited
15. Next to or beside
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
adjacent
free enterprise
James Monroe
16. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
militia
Steel Plow
Reaper
finalcial resources
17. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
federal
amendment
Jefferson Davis
gross domestic product
18. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Proclamation of 1763
Ulysses S grant
Jamestown
Battle of Gettysburg
19. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Northwest Ordiance
magna carta
Proclamation of 1763
Samuel Adams
20. Having to do with business
King George III
infectious disease
commercial
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
21. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
population growth
Bessemer Process
Democracy
magna carta
22. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
mercantilism
economic status
Samuel Adams
Jamestown
23. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
End of the American Revolution
Reaper
24. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
abolition
turmoil
government bureaucracy
first amendment
25. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
Steamboat
textile
separation of powers
26. To withdraw or pull away
James Madison
population boom
secede
ninth amendment
27. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
ninth amendment
Tenth Amedment
third amendment
Proclamation of 1763
28. Abolished slavery
federalism
crossroads
theocracy
Thirteenth Amendment
29. Realting to an event
First shot of Civil War
militia
relevant
magna carta
30. General of the confederate army
literacy rate
free enterprise economy
Robert E. Lee
cottage industry
31. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
resolution
Fourteenth Amendment
third amendment
autocracy
32. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
resolution
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
confined
Henry Clay
33. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
subsistence economy
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
popular soverignty
34. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
Fourteenth Amendment
Conord Massachusetts
direct representation
unalienable right
35. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
Patrick Henry
democratic republic
Abraham Lincoln
third amendment
36. 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
Fourteenth Amendment
Northwest Ordiance
acquire
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
37. Having to do with clothing
Samuel Adams
textile
treason
suffrage
38. 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
prospertiy
Susan B Anothony
urban
39. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
command economy
Frederick Douglas
diplomatic relations
treason
40. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
livstock
The Constitution of the United States
acquire
militia
41. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
treason
per capita income
Robert E. Lee
42. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
amend
population growth
Fourteenth Amendment
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
43. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Seperation of Powers
secondary sources
unalienable right
Marbury vs. Madison
44. 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.
theocracy
Mayflower Compact
legitmacy
John C. Calhoun
45. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
democratic republic
Reaper
distribution
subsistence economy
46. 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
landlocked
Common Sense
The Declaration of Independence
Jefferson Davis
47. 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
export
Abraham Lincoln
Marbury vs. Madison
The Great Compromise
48. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
nullification
textile
Patrick Henry
unalienable right
49. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
second amendment
Susan B Anothony
literacy rate
End of the American Revolution
50. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Patrick Henry
amend
Common Sense
The Constitution of the United States
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