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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. Eli Whitney
autocracy
crossroads
Interchangeable Parts
Ulysses S grant
2. Samuel Morse
relevant
gross domestic product
Telegraph
Northwest Ordiance
3. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Appomattox Curt House
per capita income
popular culture 'pop culture'
popular soverignty
4. 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
suffrage
Andrew Jackson
milestones
Judicial Review
5. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
Farewell Address
raw materials
third amendment
Mexican Cession
6. 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
Fifteenth Amendment
infectious disease
Alexander Hamilton
command economy
7. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
finalcial resources
James Madison
Judicial Review
Northwest Ordiance
8. Means to improve by vote
Robert E. Lee
livstock
ratify
accusations
9. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
command economy
autocracy
relevant
The Great Compromise
10. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
checks and balances
Civil War
Farewell Address
command economy
11. Changing iron into steal
Bessemer Process
civil disobedience
Thirteenth Amendment
resolution
12. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
state's rights
technological advances
command economy
confined
13. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
route
tyranny
President Thomas Jefferson
Frederick Douglas
14. 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
Judicial Review
Federalist Papers
free enterprise economy
tariff
15. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
The Declaration of Independence
route
first amendment
absolute monarch
16. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
Steamboat
Andrew Jackson
cultivation
ninth amendment
17. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
third amendment
technological advances
Farewell Address
market economy
18. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
subsistence economy
secede
absolute monarch
autocracy
19. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
literacy rate
Tea Act
Susan B Anothony
federalism
20. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
direct representation
tyranny
free enterprise
harsh
21. Abolished slavery
population density
Thirteenth Amendment
secondary sources
possessions
22. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
free enterprise economy
infected
famine
labor force
23. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
devastated
Mayflower Compact
free enterprise economy
Proclamation of 1763
24. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
direct representation
democratic republic
population density
theocracy
25. Realting to an event
accusations
acquire
unalienable right
relevant
26. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
free enterprise economy
Bill of Rights
diversity
prohibited
27. Righst that you can not surrender - sell or transer. they are a gift from the creator to the individual and can not under any circumstatnces be srurredned or taken (life - liberty - happiness)
Interchangeable Parts
unalienable right
Gettysburg Adress
Farewell Address
28. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
infectious disease
federalism
nullify
turmoil
29. To contaminate or corup
Thirteenth Amendment
Bessemer Process
relevant
infected
30. Women's rights organizer
benjamin franklin
John C. Calhoun
Susan B Anothony
federalist
31. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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32. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
primary sources
Democracy
Alexander Hamilton
abolition
33. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
Seperation of Powers
commader
Robert E. Lee
Gibbons vs. Ogden
34. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
James Madison
Farewell Address
geographical
command economy
35. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
James Madison
secede
censorship
Appomattox Curt House
36. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
first amendment
Northwest Ordiance
command economy
Farewell Address
37. 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
Telegraph
Abraham Lincoln
Northwest Ordiance
cottage industry
38. Important to a certain event or topic
First shot of Civil War
significant
Mexican Cession
efficiency
39. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
consumer demand
Jamestown
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The first shots of the American Revolution
40. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
diplomatic relations
absolute monarch
Tenth Amedment
Northwest Ordiance
41. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
theocracy
population boom
diversity
livstock
42. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
route
Telegraph
checks and balances
market economy
43. Not allowed
Emancipation Proclamations
prohibited
The Declaration of Independence
Alexander Hamilton
44. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
First shot of Civil War
prospertiy
Patrick Henry
efficiency
45. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Civil War
Tea Act
grievance
checks and balances
46. General of the confederate army
Jamestown
Susan B Anothony
Robert E. Lee
Appomattox Curt House
47. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
suffrage
state's rights
export
economic status
48. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
population growth
prospertiy
livstock
consumer demand
49. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
Mexican Cession
market economy
Tenth Amedment
popular soverignty
50. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
third amendment
currency
turmoil
primary sources