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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. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
prospertiy
Democracy
population boom
antifederalist
2. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
benjamin franklin
prohibited
unalienable right
resolution
3. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
birthrate
Impeach
Federalist Papers
efficiency
4. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
Henry Clay
autocracy
federalism
Cotton Gin
5. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
Thomas Jefferson
unalienable right
birthrate
federal
6. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
adjacent
command economy
benjamin franklin
Susan B Anothony
7. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
finalcial resources
Battle of Gettysburg
milestones
Appomattox Curt House
8. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
The Great Compromise
Robert E. Lee
First shot of Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
9. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Mexican Cession
foreign policy
Frederick Douglas
commercial
10. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
adjacent
Judicial Review
route
free enterprise economy
11. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
textile
diversity
censorship
raw materials
12. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Thomas Jefferson
urban
mercantilism
antifederalist
13. 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
crossroads
second amendment
landlocked
Andrew Jackson
14. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Tubman
Conord Massachusetts
ratify
15. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
infectious disease
Proclamation of 1763
distribution
commader
16. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Jamestown
economic status
Cotton Gin
landlocked
17. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
distribution
labor force
population boom
amend
18. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
milestones
free enterprise
Reaper
First shot of Civil War
19. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Ulysses S grant
foreign policy
command economy
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
20. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
primary sources
finalcial resources
Frederick Douglas
economic status
21. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Tenth Amedment
Emancipation Proclamations
Democracy
Tea Act
22. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
Bill of Rights
popular soverignty
John C. Calhoun
23. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
limited government
Samuel Adams
federalist
devastated
24. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
foreign policy
life expectancy
diplomatic relations
President Thomas Jefferson
25. General of the confederate army
Judicial Review
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
free enterprise economy
Robert E. Lee
26. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
famine
Battle of Gettysburg
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
27. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
The Constitution of the United States
Bessemer Process
milestones
labor force
28. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
ninth amendment
efficiency
export
Battle of Saratoga
29. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
popular culture 'pop culture'
The Constitution of the United States
treason
Cotton Gin
30. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
livstock
militia
federal
significant
31. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
Abraham Lincoln
infectious disease
Bessemer Process
legitmacy
32. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Interchangeable Parts
Steel Plow
first amendment
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
33. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Tea Act
Bill of Rights
primary sources
milestones
34. Compliantes againsts a person or state
Harriet Tubman
James Monroe
Conord Massachusetts
grievance
35. Living in a city
foreign policy
urban
Appomattox Curt House
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
36. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
Robert E. Lee
William Lloyd Garrison
federalism
famine
37. 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
The Declaration of Independence
ninth amendment
life expectancy
38. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
legitmacy
King George III
militia
government bureaucracy
39. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
Marbury vs. Madison
birthrate
third amendment
abolition
40. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
landlocked
second amendment
suffrage
legitmacy
41. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Democracy
antifederalist
ratify
primary sources
42. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
possessions
Frederick Douglas
prospertiy
magna carta
43. Having to do with clothing
separation of powers
textile
mercantilism
Gettysburg Adress
44. Eli Whitney
Gettysburg Adress
diversity
standard of living
Interchangeable Parts
45. The state of acting according to law; lawful
possessions
legitmacy
economic status
population boom
46. A point at which an important decision must be made
livstock
finalcial resources
Treaty of Paris of 1763
crossroads
47. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
abolition
currency
checks and balances
primary sources
48. Not allowed
prohibited
landlocked
acquire
King George III
49. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
Fifteenth Amendment
milestones
draft
Tenth Amedment
50. 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
secondary sources
Federalist Papers
cottage industry
tyranny