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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
2. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Fifteenth Amendment
Tea Act
infectious disease
Tenth Amedment
3. Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts
consumer demand
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
primary sources
4. Improtant points in an event
milestones
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
End of the American Revolution
5. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
crossroads
Daniel Webster
The Constitution of the United States
6. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Mayflower Compact
state's rights
William Lloyd Garrison
Seperation of Powers
7. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
literacy rate
resolution
turmoil
Proclamation of 1763
8. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
accusations
Andrew Jackson
militia
federalism
9. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
currency
efficiency
finalcial resources
Mexican Cession
10. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
James Monroe
government bureaucracy
King George III
mercantilism
11. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
subsistence economy
migration
theocracy
Samuel Adams
12. 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
antifederalist
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
route
13. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Mexican Cession
confined
popular culture 'pop culture'
secondary sources
14. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
popular soverignty
commader
landlocked
federalism
15. Widespread hunger within a given region
commercial
theocracy
famine
government bureaucracy
16. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
James Monroe
Navigation Acts
Jefferson Davis
state's rights
17. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Civil War
secede
The first shots of the American Revolution
diplomatic relations
18. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
James Monroe
The first shots of the American Revolution
Susan B Anothony
antifederalist
19. Not allowed
prohibited
The Great Compromise
Impeach
Bill of Rights
20. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
second amendment
free enterprise economy
Proclamation of 1763
significant
21. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
first amendment
birthrate
popular soverignty
Navigation Acts
22. Next to or beside
state's rights
Navigation Acts
adjacent
Thirteenth Amendment
23. Leader of the original democratic party and a 'president of the pople' he was also responsbible for the Trail of Tears - which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River
End of the American Revolution
Andrew Jackson
migration
consumer demand
24. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
25. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Gibbons vs. Ogden
theocracy
per capita income
Common Sense
26. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
direct representation
Democracy
magna carta
Abraham Lincoln
27. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
democratic republic
devastated
export
population growth
28. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Judicial Review
nullify
treason
popular soverignty
29. Women's rights organizer
urban
Susan B Anothony
crossroads
John C. Calhoun
30. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
Judicial Review
free enterprise economy
third amendment
harsh
31. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
checks and balances
cultivation
per capita income
Federalist Papers
32. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
foreign policy
free enterprise
prohibited
Thirteenth Amendment
33. 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
suffrage
Thomas Jefferson
milestones
34. 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)
popular culture 'pop culture'
possessions
consumer demand
federal
35. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
prospertiy
The first shots of the American Revolution
federal
36. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
livstock
consumer demand
raw materials
Impeach
37. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
standard of living
popular culture 'pop culture'
Democracy
primary sources
38. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
checks and balances
Thirteenth Amendment
Jamestown
nullification
39. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
Seperation of Powers
migration
significant
40. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
first amendment
command economy
nullify
Fifteenth Amendment
41. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
turmoil
birthrate
antifederalist
Frederick Douglas
42. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
John C. Calhoun
Common Sense
Henry Clay
Northwest Ordiance
43. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
federalism
Battle of Saratoga
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
civil disobedience
44. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
prospertiy
Tea Act
checks and balances
President Thomas Jefferson
45. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
significant
third amendment
standard of living
infected
46. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
landlocked
population growth
Ulysses S grant
direct representation
47. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Impeach
secede
market economy
autocracy
48. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
adjacent
route
famine
abolition
49. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
free enterprise
infected
landlocked
First shot of Civil War
50. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
Emancipation Proclamations
amendment
currency
unalienable right