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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. Widespread hunger within a given region
famine
Appomattox Curt House
censorship
export
2. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
direct representation
Andrew Jackson
Common Sense
Abraham Lincoln
3. 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.
democratic republic
King George III
Mayflower Compact
magna carta
4. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
First shot of Civil War
literacy rate
acquire
William Lloyd Garrison
5. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
livstock
Federalist Papers
tariff
efficiency
6. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
Patrick Henry
limited government
infectious disease
population boom
7. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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8. 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
Civil War
famine
James Monroe
9. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Tenth Amedment
Reaper
Telegraph
democratic republic
10. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
gross domestic product
Emancipation Proclamations
Harriet Tubman
censorship
11. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
commader
militia
foreign policy
efficiency
12. 'Father of the Constitution'
nullification
legitmacy
James Madison
antifederalist
13. 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)
President Thomas Jefferson
gross domestic product
direct representation
consumer demand
14. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
civil disobedience
state's rights
confined
command economy
15. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
prohibited
civil disobedience
free enterprise
16. 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
mercantilism
federalism
rural
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
17. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
technological advances
government bureaucracy
Fifteenth Amendment
tyranny
18. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Jamestown
command economy
commader
Robert E. Lee
19. To withdraw or pull away
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
federal
efficiency
secede
20. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
free enterprise economy
separation of powers
Mexican Cession
acquire
21. Realting to an event
President Thomas Jefferson
federal
Gettysburg Adress
relevant
22. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
Battle of Saratoga
nullification
landlocked
James Monroe
23. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
Seperation of Powers
nullification
tyranny
ninth amendment
24. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
free enterprise economy
Marbury vs. Madison
federalism
25. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
cultivation
cottage industry
draft
benjamin franklin
26. 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
federalism
primary sources
literacy rate
direct representation
27. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
James Madison
democratic republic
Robert E. Lee
federalist
28. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
adjacent
migration
federalism
birthrate
29. 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
grievance
nullify
landlocked
Federalist Papers
30. John Deere
separation of powers
theocracy
Steel Plow
gross domestic product
31. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
Cotton Gin
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
President Thomas Jefferson
birthrate
32. The constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to counsel - the right to confront witnesses - and the right to a speedy and public trial.
Alexander Hamilton
sixth amendment
Tea Act
Mexican Cession
33. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
diplomatic relations
magna carta
federalism
cottage industry
34. Samuel Morse
second amendment
Telegraph
famine
free enterprise
35. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Interchangeable Parts
efficiency
market economy
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
36. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
first amendment
limited government
route
Democracy
37. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
government bureaucracy
amendment
migration
accusations
38. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
distribution
Conord Massachusetts
Jamestown
civil disobedience
39. Improtant points in an event
Navigation Acts
third amendment
milestones
Ulysses S grant
40. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Steamboat
literacy rate
Impeach
confined
41. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
route
President Thomas Jefferson
Seperation of Powers
Tea Act
42. Women's rights organizer
market economy
Susan B Anothony
unalienable right
tyranny
43. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Treaty of Paris of 1763
secondary sources
tariff
William Lloyd Garrison
44. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States
President Thomas Jefferson
45. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Daniel Webster
primary sources
ninth amendment
The first shots of the American Revolution
46. The state of acting according to law; lawful
federal
legitmacy
The Constitution of the United States
absolute monarch
47. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
diversity
Frederick Douglas
export
possessions
48. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
state's rights
Harriet Tubman
theocracy
magna carta
49. 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
provisions
Northwest Ordiance
Robert E. Lee
Cotton Gin
50. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Jefferson Davis
population boom
Thomas Jefferson
unalienable right