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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. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Battle of Gettysburg
The first shots of the American Revolution
antifederalist
relevant
2. Leader of the Federalist - first Treasurer of the US creator of the Bank of the U.S. killed in a duel by the Vice President of the US Aaron Burr
Thirteenth Amendment
livstock
population boom
Alexander Hamilton
3. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
Bill of Rights
infectious disease
accusations
End of the American Revolution
4. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
secondary sources
Tenth Amedment
finalcial resources
Mexican Cession
5. Having to do with clothing
Harriet Tubman
textile
benjamin franklin
The first shots of the American Revolution
6. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
benjamin franklin
technological advances
abolition
acquire
7. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
draft
militia
nullify
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
8. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Conord Massachusetts
Robert E. Lee
subsistence economy
Judicial Review
9. Changing iron into steal
Farewell Address
state's rights
Bessemer Process
cottage industry
10. The right to vote
free enterprise
turmoil
consumer demand
suffrage
11. Moving from one place to antoher
Abraham Lincoln
William Lloyd Garrison
End of the American Revolution
migration
12. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Jefferson Davis
literacy rate
significant
Harriet Tubman
13. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
government bureaucracy
Northwest Ordiance
federalism
literacy rate
14. The Supreme Court decision that rulled that the consitution gave contorl of interstate comerce to the U.S. congress not the individual states trhough whih a route passed
James Monroe
Robert E. Lee
Gibbons vs. Ogden
mercantilism
15. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
economic status
harsh
nullification
route
16. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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17. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
significant
Tea Act
Emancipation Proclamations
Patrick Henry
18. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
export
Ulysses S grant
Impeach
civil disobedience
19. The desire for goods and services by thoe who have the financial reserves to acqurie them (the amount of sutomers that want to buy something)
mercantilism
Battle of Saratoga
Civil War
consumer demand
20. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
Samuel Adams
geographical
acquire
technological advances
21. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
magna carta
Henry Clay
treason
second amendment
22. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Navigation Acts
third amendment
Proclamation of 1763
harsh
23. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
landlocked
relevant
primary sources
free enterprise
24. Short speech given by Abrahman Lincoln to dedicate a cemetry for soliders who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is considered a profound statement of American ideals. Four score and seven years ago - our fathers....and that governemtn of the peopl
Andrew Jackson
federalism
commader
Gettysburg Adress
25. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
tariff
Civil War
Battle of Saratoga
President Thomas Jefferson
26. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
Mexican Cession
amend
William Lloyd Garrison
Common Sense
27. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
First shot of Civil War
Common Sense
Jamestown
crossroads
28. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
distribution
secondary sources
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Thomas Jefferson
29. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
milestones
Reaper
subsistence economy
significant
30. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
infectious disease
Steel Plow
direct representation
labor force
31. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
antifederalist
Steamboat
The Constitution of the United States
Federalist Papers
32. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
antifederalist
provisions
Emancipation Proclamations
currency
33. Women's rights organizer
Tenth Amedment
devastated
labor force
Susan B Anothony
34. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
grievance
popular soverignty
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
acquire
35. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
literacy rate
cultivation
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Alexander Hamilton
36. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Henry Clay
consumer demand
milestones
Common Sense
37. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
Robert E. Lee
primary sources
secede
absolute monarch
38. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
significant
autocracy
benjamin franklin
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
39. 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
Cotton Gin
Samuel Adams
The Declaration of Independence
Seperation of Powers
40. Next to or beside
adjacent
economic status
free enterprise economy
Steel Plow
41. 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
abolition
mercantilism
ninth amendment
Tenth Amedment
42. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
censorship
urban
Cotton Gin
antifederalist
43. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
democratic republic
per capita income
nullification
raw materials
44. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Frederick Douglas
subsistence economy
The Great Compromise
command economy
45. Having to do with business
harsh
Fifteenth Amendment
commercial
Ulysses S grant
46. Samuel Morse
Abraham Lincoln
second amendment
Telegraph
magna carta
47. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Ulysses S grant
antifederalist
Civil War
tariff
48. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
second amendment
Jefferson Davis
currency
popular culture 'pop culture'
49. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
Telegraph
harsh
technological advances
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
50. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
third amendment
consumer demand
tariff
diplomatic relations