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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. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
secondary sources
currency
accusations
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
2. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
prospertiy
Farewell Address
Fourteenth Amendment
route
3. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
democratic republic
Fourteenth Amendment
rural
migration
4. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Jamestown
commercial
The first shots of the American Revolution
possessions
5. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
relevant
labor force
absolute monarch
Cotton Gin
6. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
Abraham Lincoln
efficiency
market economy
popular soverignty
7. 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
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
subsistence economy
labor force
8. To change
limited government
Jamestown
amend
standard of living
9. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
cultivation
theocracy
Ulysses S grant
Seperation of Powers
10. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
James Madison
Appomattox Curt House
route
direct representation
11. Widespread hunger within a given region
famine
cottage industry
James Monroe
abolition
12. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
ninth amendment
adjacent
checks and balances
nullification
13. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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14. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Battle of Saratoga
Gettysburg Adress
free enterprise
route
15. Eli Whitney
possessions
life expectancy
Interchangeable Parts
William Lloyd Garrison
16. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Harriet Tubman
Cotton Gin
economic status
President Thomas Jefferson
17. The Supreme Court decision that rulled that the consitution gave contorl of interstate comerce to the U.S. congress not the individual states trhough whih a route passed
James Madison
commader
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Bill of Rights
18. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
gross domestic product
adjacent
population growth
Battle of Gettysburg
19. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
milestones
Telegraph
market economy
James Monroe
20. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
Telegraph
federalism
Mayflower Compact
Treaty of Paris of 1763
21. Living in a country
confined
rural
tyranny
Thirteenth Amendment
22. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
checks and balances
End of the American Revolution
militia
birthrate
23. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
Conord Massachusetts
free enterprise economy
Northwest Ordiance
autocracy
24. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
mercantilism
government bureaucracy
diplomatic relations
first amendment
25. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
legitmacy
crossroads
accusations
raw materials
26. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
Robert E. Lee
urban
Ulysses S grant
Conord Massachusetts
27. 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
Marbury vs. Madison
market economy
population growth
direct representation
28. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
primary sources
End of the American Revolution
checks and balances
livstock
29. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
Frederick Douglas
Telegraph
John C. Calhoun
Navigation Acts
30. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
Conord Massachusetts
diversity
infectious disease
Henry Clay
31. Important to a certain event or topic
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Reaper
magna carta
significant
32. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
gross domestic product
significant
crossroads
cottage industry
33. A point at which an important decision must be made
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Judicial Review
crossroads
significant
34. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
mercantilism
separation of powers
Impeach
gross domestic product
35. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
export
Fifteenth Amendment
Battle of Gettysburg
draft
36. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
secede
Harriet Tubman
Fifteenth Amendment
Mexican Cession
37. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
resolution
Emancipation Proclamations
devastated
direct representation
38. Next to or beside
command economy
commader
adjacent
Steel Plow
39. Relationships that exsits between governments
devastated
John C. Calhoun
direct representation
diplomatic relations
40. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
gross domestic product
benjamin franklin
popular soverignty
confined
41. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
tariff
Thomas Jefferson
distribution
birthrate
42. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
First shot of Civil War
birthrate
gross domestic product
labor force
43. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
federalism
command economy
Battle of Gettysburg
Henry Clay
44. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
secede
foreign policy
textile
Gibbons vs. Ogden
45. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
End of the American Revolution
textile
standard of living
resolution
46. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
direct representation
Alexander Hamilton
population growth
Mexican Cession
47. 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)
technological advances
gross domestic product
unalienable right
Civil War
48. Not allowed
Gettysburg Adress
Samuel Adams
prohibited
efficiency
49. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
amendment
currency
free enterprise economy
The first shots of the American Revolution
50. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Seperation of Powers
significant
first amendment
raw materials