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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. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
raw materials
government bureaucracy
Judicial Review
Navigation Acts
2. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Emancipation Proclamations
Tea Act
magna carta
Thomas Jefferson
3. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
End of the American Revolution
grievance
migration
4. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
limited government
absolute monarch
secede
5. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
federalist
resolution
finalcial resources
diplomatic relations
6. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
milestones
secede
democratic republic
Battle of Saratoga
7. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
per capita income
provisions
legitmacy
Judicial Review
8. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
finalcial resources
diversity
significant
devastated
9. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
Abraham Lincoln
adjacent
Impeach
federal
10. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Common Sense
devastated
The first shots of the American Revolution
Appomattox Curt House
11. 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
relevant
Susan B Anothony
Northwest Ordiance
prohibited
12. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
subsistence economy
Cotton Gin
Jamestown
Samuel Adams
13. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
relevant
absolute monarch
Susan B Anothony
infected
14. Important to a certain event or topic
significant
possessions
rural
ratify
15. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Democracy
absolute monarch
Appomattox Curt House
significant
16. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
gross domestic product
amend
antifederalist
milestones
17. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
accusations
Conord Massachusetts
The Constitution of the United States
Steel Plow
18. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
diversity
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Jefferson Davis
landlocked
19. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
Tea Act
resolution
mercantilism
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
20. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Fourteenth Amendment
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Tenth Amedment
raw materials
21. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
efficiency
Andrew Jackson
foreign policy
turmoil
22. 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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23. Eli Whitney
accusations
First shot of Civil War
Interchangeable Parts
Thirteenth Amendment
24. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
nullify
William Lloyd Garrison
primary sources
possessions
25. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
acquire
literacy rate
finalcial resources
population boom
26. Passionate patriot who became fomous for his fiery speeches in favor of American Independence his most famous quote included the worlds 'give me liberty or give me Death.'
Patrick Henry
free enterprise
diversity
sixth amendment
27. Things that you own
Telegraph
free enterprise
possessions
popular soverignty
28. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
birthrate
accusations
First shot of Civil War
29. Having to do with clothing
Alexander Hamilton
textile
John C. Calhoun
Robert E. Lee
30. Robert Fulton
Steamboat
checks and balances
ninth amendment
Alexander Hamilton
31. To contaminate or corup
infected
harsh
turmoil
Reaper
32. An act of the Second Continental Congress - adopted on July 4 - 1776 - which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were 'Free and Independent States' and that 'all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain - is a
separation of powers
grievance
Gettysburg Adress
The Declaration of Independence
33. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
First shot of Civil War
tyranny
Robert E. Lee
Proclamation of 1763
34. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
prospertiy
Frederick Douglas
geographical
35. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
legitmacy
command economy
subsistence economy
Daniel Webster
36. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
ratify
first amendment
gross domestic product
market economy
37. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
draft
relevant
per capita income
Harriet Tubman
38. Next to or beside
Harriet Tubman
urban
adjacent
free enterprise economy
39. A point at which an important decision must be made
secede
Reaper
Alexander Hamilton
crossroads
40. 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
distribution
Treaty of Paris of 1763
legitmacy
federal
41. The right to vote
relevant
Tenth Amedment
ratify
suffrage
42. Having to do with business
amendment
commercial
Harriet Tubman
currency
43. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
export
Frederick Douglas
diplomatic relations
Fifteenth Amendment
44. 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
crossroads
Marbury vs. Madison
cottage industry
William Lloyd Garrison
45. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
migration
Mexican Cession
Susan B Anothony
amendment
46. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
provisions
infected
magna carta
popular culture 'pop culture'
47. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
population growth
Proclamation of 1763
draft
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
48. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
James Monroe
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
civil disobedience
49. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Samuel Adams
livstock
Daniel Webster
Navigation Acts
50. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
nullification
End of the American Revolution
Patrick Henry
prospertiy