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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
amend
first amendment
turmoil
famine
2. To obtain or receive
raw materials
acquire
free enterprise economy
technological advances
3. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
nullify
Emancipation Proclamations
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
secondary sources
4. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Tenth Amedment
checks and balances
subsistence economy
turmoil
5. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
Judicial Review
distribution
Tea Act
Bill of Rights
6. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
Telegraph
theocracy
livstock
first amendment
7. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
Harriet Tubman
market economy
The Constitution of the United States
8. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
Tenth Amedment
Telegraph
subsistence economy
grievance
9. 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
tyranny
Navigation Acts
cottage industry
End of the American Revolution
10. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
treason
Samuel Adams
Farewell Address
technological advances
11. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Frederick Douglas
efficiency
gross domestic product
tyranny
12. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
literacy rate
landlocked
diplomatic relations
treason
13. Is a cruel and unjust government
Bessemer Process
nullification
tyranny
textile
14. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
commercial
Democracy
population growth
Robert E. Lee
15. Samuel Morse
labor force
acquire
Telegraph
Northwest Ordiance
16. 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.'
Patrick Henry
autocracy
Battle of Gettysburg
treason
17. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
resolution
King George III
Steel Plow
Samuel Adams
18. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
End of the American Revolution
The Constitution of the United States
Ulysses S grant
acquire
19. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
Bill of Rights
King George III
possessions
amend
20. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
antifederalist
Gibbons vs. Ogden
civil disobedience
foreign policy
21. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
President Thomas Jefferson
route
Jefferson Davis
market economy
22. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
finalcial resources
livstock
Emancipation Proclamations
Mexican Cession
23. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
King George III
William Lloyd Garrison
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
population density
24. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
federal
Seperation of Powers
theocracy
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
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
primary sources
literacy rate
landlocked
26. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
labor force
magna carta
federalism
free enterprise economy
27. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
Conord Massachusetts
Samuel Adams
significant
currency
28. 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
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Federalist Papers
democratic republic
Thomas Jefferson
29. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
ninth amendment
Mexican Cession
First shot of Civil War
popular soverignty
30. The right to vote
Bill of Rights
suffrage
tyranny
currency
31. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
Patrick Henry
treason
Steamboat
prohibited
32. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Impeach
Appomattox Curt House
devastated
benjamin franklin
33. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Judicial Review
Civil War
Northwest Ordiance
government bureaucracy
34. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
checks and balances
legitmacy
Judicial Review
milestones
35. 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
literacy rate
Farewell Address
migration
36. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
third amendment
birthrate
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Ulysses S grant
37. 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
The Declaration of Independence
Ulysses S grant
adjacent
popular culture 'pop culture'
38. 'Father of the Constitution'
James Madison
infected
finalcial resources
amend
39. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
Judicial Review
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
separation of powers
livstock
40. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
Conord Massachusetts
autocracy
Samuel Adams
41. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
economic status
consumer demand
Abraham Lincoln
Battle of Gettysburg
42. Important to a certain event or topic
significant
limited government
milestones
Northwest Ordiance
43. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
Patrick Henry
Alexander Hamilton
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
benjamin franklin
44. Living in a city
urban
significant
accusations
devastated
45. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Daniel Webster
geographical
Andrew Jackson
John C. Calhoun
46. General of the confederate army
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
route
Robert E. Lee
acquire
47. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
Tea Act
Gibbons vs. Ogden
free enterprise
The Great Compromise
48. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
urban
command economy
foreign policy
cultivation
49. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
The Constitution of the United States
limited government
Tenth Amedment
50. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
Impeach
federal
Harriet Tubman
theocracy