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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. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
mercantilism
King George III
federal
Appomattox Curt House
2. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Ulysses S grant
benjamin franklin
grievance
treason
3. Having to do with clothing
third amendment
cottage industry
cultivation
textile
4. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Jamestown
command economy
James Monroe
The first shots of the American Revolution
5. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
James Monroe
prohibited
economic status
amend
6. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
consumer demand
government bureaucracy
Jamestown
prohibited
7. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
autocracy
labor force
subsistence economy
benjamin franklin
8. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Mexican Cession
magna carta
tariff
population boom
9. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Emancipation Proclamations
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Tubman
Democracy
10. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
abolition
Appomattox Curt House
Mexican Cession
militia
11. Important; of consequence
Bessemer Process
significant
Farewell Address
Federalist Papers
12. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
free enterprise economy
censorship
Appomattox Curt House
separation of powers
13. To be compeletly destroyed
acquire
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Civil War
devastated
14. To contaminate or corup
infected
Battle of Gettysburg
federalism
significant
15. Moving from one place to antoher
James Monroe
currency
censorship
migration
16. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
Jamestown
landlocked
antifederalist
Abraham Lincoln
17. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
labor force
Fourteenth Amendment
antifederalist
magna carta
18. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Common Sense
direct representation
End of the American Revolution
Emancipation Proclamations
19. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
significant
Patrick Henry
Proclamation of 1763
Jamestown
20. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
raw materials
Northwest Ordiance
ninth amendment
21. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
The Declaration of Independence
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
direct representation
22. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
legitmacy
amendment
finalcial resources
Marbury vs. Madison
23. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
federalism
possessions
direct representation
24. Changing iron into steal
Bessemer Process
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
milestones
25. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Proclamation of 1763
distribution
autocracy
Seperation of Powers
26. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
milestones
censorship
population boom
free enterprise economy
27. 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';
gross domestic product
The Constitution of the United States
primary sources
devastated
28. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Bessemer Process
turmoil
legitmacy
29. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Susan B Anothony
migration
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Tenth Amedment
30. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Battle of Saratoga
Jefferson Davis
Thomas Jefferson
suffrage
31. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
President Thomas Jefferson
Bessemer Process
ninth amendment
Battle of Saratoga
32. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
William Lloyd Garrison
per capita income
prohibited
33. To withdraw or pull away
secede
free enterprise
End of the American Revolution
The first shots of the American Revolution
34. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Gibbons vs. Ogden
literacy rate
John C. Calhoun
Samuel Adams
35. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Gibbons vs. Ogden
population boom
checks and balances
grievance
36. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
possessions
Cotton Gin
amendment
Judicial Review
37. Important to a certain event or topic
primary sources
James Monroe
significant
Steamboat
38. Realting to an event
per capita income
relevant
direct representation
legitmacy
39. Eli Whitney
secede
diversity
Interchangeable Parts
Steel Plow
40. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
free enterprise
state's rights
population growth
rural
41. Led to the Boston Tea Party
censorship
suffrage
Tea Act
gross domestic product
42. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
First shot of Civil War
civil disobedience
Alexander Hamilton
Henry Clay
43. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
famine
efficiency
The Constitution of the United States
consumer demand
44. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
unalienable right
diplomatic relations
labor force
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
45. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Gibbons vs. Ogden
labor force
The first shots of the American Revolution
Seperation of Powers
46. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Andrew Jackson
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Emancipation Proclamations
John C. Calhoun
47. Series of essays written by James Madison - John Jay - Alexander Hamilton - defending the Consituion and the principles on which the government of the United States was founded
life expectancy
free enterprise
Impeach
Federalist Papers
48. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Appomattox Curt House
provisions
Impeach
command economy
49. Living in a city
free enterprise economy
Seperation of Powers
Jamestown
urban
50. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
route
Mexican Cession
literacy rate
ninth amendment