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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. 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
The Declaration of Independence
Navigation Acts
textile
significant
2. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
John C. Calhoun
Steamboat
sixth amendment
infectious disease
3. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
provisions
separation of powers
suffrage
technological advances
4. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Bill of Rights
Judicial Review
population boom
treason
5. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
The first shots of the American Revolution
draft
textile
Emancipation Proclamations
6. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
Daniel Webster
life expectancy
popular culture 'pop culture'
resolution
7. Abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
popular soverignty
The Declaration of Independence
Northwest Ordiance
8. Having to do with clothing
standard of living
raw materials
textile
gross domestic product
9. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
federal
Fourteenth Amendment
Northwest Ordiance
Patrick Henry
10. Short speech given by Abrahman Lincoln to dedicate a cemetry for soliders who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is considered a profound statement of American ideals. Four score and seven years ago - our fathers....and that governemtn of the peopl
harsh
ratify
Samuel Adams
Gettysburg Adress
11. Important; of consequence
Bill of Rights
Northwest Ordiance
amendment
significant
12. Led to the Boston Tea Party
James Madison
Tea Act
harsh
treason
13. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
draft
The Declaration of Independence
The Great Compromise
federalism
14. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
labor force
Patrick Henry
possessions
checks and balances
15. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
Abraham Lincoln
amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
separation of powers
16. Widespread hunger within a given region
famine
Gettysburg Adress
abolition
nullify
17. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
accusations
harsh
urban
geographical
18. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
The first shots of the American Revolution
Harriet Tubman
democratic republic
19. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
consumer demand
finalcial resources
absolute monarch
diplomatic relations
20. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
Patrick Henry
population density
federalist
limited government
21. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
accusations
Patrick Henry
Interchangeable Parts
population growth
22. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
nullification
devastated
confined
Fourteenth Amendment
23. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
urban
rural
Farewell Address
literacy rate
24. Robert Fulton
antifederalist
Steamboat
geographical
Telegraph
25. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
population growth
Farewell Address
secede
Thirteenth Amendment
26. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
Farewell Address
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
first amendment
confined
27. 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
28. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
treason
draft
adjacent
29. 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
confined
Thomas Jefferson
Judicial Review
30. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
birthrate
population boom
devastated
consumer demand
31. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
amend
cultivation
suffrage
32. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Ulysses S grant
amend
Jamestown
Emancipation Proclamations
33. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
harsh
James Monroe
Harriet Tubman
export
34. 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
raw materials
possessions
Thomas Jefferson
Federalist Papers
35. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
free enterprise economy
First shot of Civil War
distribution
End of the American Revolution
36. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
raw materials
market economy
Treaty of Paris of 1763
technological advances
37. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
second amendment
Proclamation of 1763
sixth amendment
prospertiy
38. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
life expectancy
James Madison
Henry Clay
End of the American Revolution
39. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
geographical
benjamin franklin
relevant
infectious disease
40. An agreement singed in 1620 b the Pilgrims in Playmouth - to consult each other baout laws for the colony and a promise to work together to make it succeed. Postive step towards self - rule.
relevant
infected
Mayflower Compact
suffrage
41. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Tea Act
Emancipation Proclamations
Seperation of Powers
raw materials
42. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
43. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
Emancipation Proclamations
currency
command economy
life expectancy
44. John Deere
unalienable right
Bessemer Process
Steel Plow
amend
45. A point at which an important decision must be made
accusations
rural
crossroads
Telegraph
46. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
state's rights
adjacent
standard of living
theocracy
47. Women's rights organizer
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Susan B Anothony
Democracy
48. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
Jamestown
mercantilism
third amendment
absolute monarch
49. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
route
federalism
antifederalist
raw materials
50. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
federalism
possessions
milestones
geographical