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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. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
Jefferson Davis
free enterprise
export
second amendment
2. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
First shot of Civil War
Patrick Henry
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
nullification
3. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
route
popular soverignty
Henry Clay
Robert E. Lee
4. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
amend
Abraham Lincoln
Mayflower Compact
finalcial resources
5. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
James Madison
cultivation
secondary sources
crossroads
6. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
population growth
efficiency
nullification
magna carta
7. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Navigation Acts
Harriet Tubman
per capita income
Samuel Adams
8. The state of acting according to law; lawful
Alexander Hamilton
federal
legitmacy
unalienable right
9. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
Jefferson Davis
significant
draft
magna carta
10. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Reaper
primary sources
Ulysses S grant
rural
11. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
Conord Massachusetts
route
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
mercantilism
12. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
geographical
Steamboat
William Lloyd Garrison
third amendment
13. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Patrick Henry
Bill of Rights
possessions
labor force
14. Having to do with business
Andrew Jackson
accusations
commercial
possessions
15. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
federalist
censorship
Northwest Ordiance
commercial
16. To be compeletly destroyed
adjacent
devastated
John C. Calhoun
draft
17. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Susan B Anothony
population growth
primary sources
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
18. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Impeach
Samuel Adams
grievance
First shot of Civil War
19. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Appomattox Curt House
Jamestown
Samuel Adams
population boom
20. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
John C. Calhoun
cultivation
third amendment
amend
21. 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
Northwest Ordiance
subsistence economy
milestones
22. 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
End of the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris of 1763
distribution
antifederalist
23. 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
Farewell Address
Federalist Papers
popular culture 'pop culture'
federal
24. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
standard of living
urban
federalist
diversity
25. 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
Telegraph
migration
nullification
26. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
crossroads
Bessemer Process
Appomattox Curt House
abolition
27. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
free enterprise economy
Farewell Address
significant
federal
28. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Judicial Review
distribution
market economy
Treaty of Paris of 1763
29. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
federalism
textile
route
subsistence economy
30. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
secede
President Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution of the United States
consumer demand
31. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
Fourteenth Amendment
birthrate
Thomas Jefferson
technological advances
32. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
diversity
Fifteenth Amendment
gross domestic product
birthrate
33. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
significant
Civil War
devastated
antifederalist
34. The right to vote
popular culture 'pop culture'
accusations
suffrage
President Thomas Jefferson
35. 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';
acquire
The Constitution of the United States
Jefferson Davis
geographical
36. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
population growth
possessions
provisions
separation of powers
37. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Fifteenth Amendment
Bill of Rights
Proclamation of 1763
Treaty of Paris of 1763
38. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
Civil War
foreign policy
unalienable right
federal
39. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
magna carta
per capita income
crossroads
Battle of Gettysburg
40. 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
government bureaucracy
possessions
resolution
41. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
resolution
Conord Massachusetts
possessions
government bureaucracy
42. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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43. 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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44. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
labor force
Common Sense
per capita income
suffrage
45. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
harsh
Conord Massachusetts
federalist
46. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
popular soverignty
James Monroe
nullification
checks and balances
47. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
federal
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frederick Douglas
48. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
second amendment
population growth
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
crossroads
49. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
acquire
Mexican Cession
draft
ninth amendment
50. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
significant
third amendment
Bessemer Process
economic status