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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. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Mexican Cession
sixth amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
possessions
2. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
Thomas Jefferson
efficiency
draft
benjamin franklin
3. Abolished slavery
The Declaration of Independence
possessions
Thirteenth Amendment
third amendment
4. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
Steamboat
Thirteenth Amendment
harsh
nullify
5. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
Jefferson Davis
Patrick Henry
economic status
Daniel Webster
6. Moving from one place to antoher
draft
migration
tariff
Tenth Amedment
7. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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8. Having to do with clothing
raw materials
Fourteenth Amendment
textile
Civil War
9. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Henry Clay
infected
turmoil
Cotton Gin
10. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
economic status
accusations
cultivation
King George III
11. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
market economy
absolute monarch
theocracy
checks and balances
12. 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
livstock
The Great Compromise
accusations
Federalist Papers
13. Stated that - 'no state..can lawfully get out of the Union..' bt pledged there would be no war unless the South started it - was ment to hlep heal and resore the country after four years of the Civil War
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14. A point at which an important decision must be made
Andrew Jackson
government bureaucracy
crossroads
life expectancy
15. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
Battle of Saratoga
civil disobedience
Emancipation Proclamations
currency
16. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Samuel Adams
ratify
Seperation of Powers
abolition
17. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Susan B Anothony
population boom
Steel Plow
Thomas Jefferson
18. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
federal
Fourteenth Amendment
King George III
antifederalist
19. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
theocracy
treason
Tea Act
Ulysses S grant
20. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Appomattox Curt House
federalism
Susan B Anothony
secondary sources
21. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
confined
Conord Massachusetts
diversity
Northwest Ordiance
22. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
population growth
Battle of Saratoga
birthrate
milestones
23. To contaminate or corup
Alexander Hamilton
infected
gross domestic product
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
24. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
diversity
John C. Calhoun
amendment
Bessemer Process
25. Important to a certain event or topic
checks and balances
William Lloyd Garrison
significant
Abraham Lincoln
26. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Civil War
geographical
route
The Declaration of Independence
27. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
First shot of Civil War
Alexander Hamilton
Steel Plow
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
28. Not allowed
Patrick Henry
urban
separation of powers
prohibited
29. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
finalcial resources
King George III
abolition
End of the American Revolution
30. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Jamestown
Fourteenth Amendment
nullification
Frederick Douglas
31. Robert Fulton
Steamboat
textile
rural
ninth amendment
32. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Steamboat
Battle of Saratoga
Tenth Amedment
33. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
economic status
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
nullify
subsistence economy
34. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
federalism
relevant
nullify
Civil War
35. To obtain or receive
popular culture 'pop culture'
amendment
nullification
acquire
36. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
resolution
nullification
Mexican Cession
End of the American Revolution
37. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
Abraham Lincoln
cultivation
population density
The Great Compromise
38. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
population growth
famine
tariff
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
39. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
acquire
Seperation of Powers
Harriet Tubman
grievance
40. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
significant
civil disobedience
tyranny
population growth
41. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
Alexander Hamilton
adjacent
free enterprise economy
President Thomas Jefferson
42. 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
consumer demand
Treaty of Paris of 1763
The Declaration of Independence
third amendment
43. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
Daniel Webster
benjamin franklin
grievance
End of the American Revolution
44. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
livstock
grievance
life expectancy
45. 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
famine
Navigation Acts
Marbury vs. Madison
censorship
46. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
technological advances
Henry Clay
popular soverignty
Abraham Lincoln
47. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
separation of powers
tyranny
economic status
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
48. Important; of consequence
technological advances
milestones
significant
Fifteenth Amendment
49. 'Father of the Constitution'
second amendment
James Madison
grievance
popular soverignty
50. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
Harriet Tubman
Henry Clay
technological advances
government bureaucracy