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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. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
censorship
Navigation Acts
civil disobedience
2. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Abraham Lincoln
The Constitution of the United States
amend
Thomas Jefferson
3. Relationships that exsits between governments
Democracy
diplomatic relations
Treaty of Paris of 1763
King George III
4. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
Seperation of Powers
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Telegraph
theocracy
5. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
ninth amendment
draft
Seperation of Powers
turmoil
6. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
first amendment
Harriet Tubman
free enterprise
Mexican Cession
7. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Ulysses S grant
federalism
The first shots of the American Revolution
magna carta
8. 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.
Emancipation Proclamations
Susan B Anothony
Northwest Ordiance
Mayflower Compact
9. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
consumer demand
End of the American Revolution
Seperation of Powers
10. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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11. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
Thirteenth Amendment
third amendment
turmoil
significant
12. Led to the Boston Tea Party
William Lloyd Garrison
Tea Act
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
autocracy
13. The supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted on September 17 - 1787 - by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - and later ratified by conventions in each state in the name of 'the People';
The Constitution of the United States
Steel Plow
crossroads
Thirteenth Amendment
14. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
textile
First shot of Civil War
consumer demand
raw materials
15. Things that you own
possessions
commader
third amendment
Appomattox Curt House
16. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
James Monroe
birthrate
significant
Bill of Rights
17. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
turmoil
life expectancy
Proclamation of 1763
The Constitution of the United States
18. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
amendment
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
treason
labor force
19. 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
provisions
command economy
draft
20. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Gettysburg Adress
tariff
nullify
federal
21. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
diversity
livstock
prohibited
22. To obtain or receive
Democracy
acquire
adjacent
relevant
23. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
turmoil
gross domestic product
federalism
textile
24. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
federalism
population density
Samuel Adams
Mexican Cession
25. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
infected
Telegraph
grievance
President Thomas Jefferson
26. To withdraw or pull away
First shot of Civil War
James Monroe
secede
grievance
27. 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
tariff
Marbury vs. Madison
draft
Treaty of Paris of 1763
28. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
landlocked
nullification
Interchangeable Parts
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
29. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
possessions
President Thomas Jefferson
William Lloyd Garrison
First shot of Civil War
30. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
government bureaucracy
third amendment
treason
abolition
31. 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
Reaper
Alexander Hamilton
acquire
The first shots of the American Revolution
32. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
commercial
Battle of Gettysburg
route
Tea Act
33. Abolished slavery
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
free enterprise economy
Thirteenth Amendment
harsh
34. 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
direct representation
Andrew Jackson
per capita income
secede
35. Living in a city
state's rights
urban
Treaty of Paris of 1763
gross domestic product
36. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
Gibbons vs. Ogden
resolution
command economy
Jamestown
37. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
Fifteenth Amendment
textile
Appomattox Curt House
population growth
38. 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
population boom
sixth amendment
End of the American Revolution
currency
39. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
first amendment
Civil War
accusations
population boom
40. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
literacy rate
currency
third amendment
Reaper
41. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Telegraph
population growth
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
absolute monarch
42. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
foreign policy
currency
provisions
devastated
43. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
grievance
treason
End of the American Revolution
44. 'Father of the Constitution'
consumer demand
James Madison
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
antifederalist
45. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
adjacent
Judicial Review
popular culture 'pop culture'
cultivation
46. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
gross domestic product
Farewell Address
efficiency
benjamin franklin
47. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
nullify
John C. Calhoun
market economy
Democracy
48. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
export
provisions
checks and balances
49. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
gross domestic product
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
livstock
50. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
Telegraph
route
market economy
Harrlet Beecher Stowe