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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. The british defeat at Yorktown - Virgina by George Washingtown's troops singaled the end of the american revolution. accepted the surrrender of the main british army under Cronwallis
Tenth Amedment
End of the American Revolution
nullification
sixth amendment
2. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Frederick Douglas
Daniel Webster
First shot of Civil War
King George III
3. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
The Great Compromise
urban
Fifteenth Amendment
Farewell Address
4. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
suffrage
commader
Steel Plow
standard of living
5. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
free enterprise economy
Seperation of Powers
birthrate
Battle of Gettysburg
6. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
prospertiy
diversity
standard of living
draft
7. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
Judicial Review
magna carta
cultivation
Civil War
8. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
tyranny
gross domestic product
9. 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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10. Realting to an event
King George III
accusations
commercial
relevant
11. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
labor force
third amendment
Reaper
12. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
mercantilism
The first shots of the American Revolution
adjacent
resolution
13. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
Mayflower Compact
Treaty of Paris of 1763
cultivation
significant
14. The state of acting according to law; lawful
commercial
Steel Plow
legitmacy
limited government
15. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
President Thomas Jefferson
livstock
crossroads
separation of powers
16. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Fourteenth Amendment
Judicial Review
possessions
per capita income
17. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
Daniel Webster
free enterprise economy
provisions
cottage industry
18. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
Federalist Papers
Samuel Adams
confined
secondary sources
19. John Deere
treason
Jamestown
Steel Plow
Telegraph
20. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
Telegraph
Steamboat
life expectancy
Navigation Acts
21. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
population density
accusations
President Thomas Jefferson
currency
22. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
Judicial Review
Emancipation Proclamations
federal
adjacent
23. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
geographical
Reaper
Mexican Cession
popular soverignty
24. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
relevant
theocracy
Thomas Jefferson
25. 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
sixth amendment
Proclamation of 1763
abolition
Treaty of Paris of 1763
26. Important; of consequence
gross domestic product
significant
Henry Clay
President Thomas Jefferson
27. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
devastated
Seperation of Powers
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
benjamin franklin
28. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
landlocked
End of the American Revolution
commercial
gross domestic product
29. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
foreign policy
checks and balances
ratify
diversity
30. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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31. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
livstock
turmoil
labor force
Democracy
32. Not allowed
prohibited
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
raw materials
infectious disease
33. 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
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Federalist Papers
Patrick Henry
absolute monarch
34. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
antifederalist
government bureaucracy
devastated
gross domestic product
35. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
Tea Act
population growth
Henry Clay
market economy
36. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
first amendment
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
relevant
37. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
amend
civil disobedience
abolition
significant
38. Abolished slavery
harsh
Thirteenth Amendment
population boom
Frederick Douglas
39. 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
rural
government bureaucracy
draft
Marbury vs. Madison
40. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Navigation Acts
militia
tariff
Mayflower Compact
41. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
urban
separation of powers
Reaper
route
42. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
finalcial resources
crossroads
significant
Henry Clay
43. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Jefferson Davis
devastated
cultivation
labor force
44. 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
currency
distribution
Robert E. Lee
mercantilism
45. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Tea Act
ninth amendment
Seperation of Powers
population boom
46. Important to a certain event or topic
Cotton Gin
Mayflower Compact
significant
Democracy
47. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
Mexican Cession
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
birthrate
economic status
48. Things that you own
censorship
economic status
possessions
Susan B Anothony
49. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
theocracy
Fifteenth Amendment
Battle of Saratoga
population growth
50. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
commercial
absolute monarch
population density
gross domestic product