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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. To obtain or receive
autocracy
technological advances
acquire
popular culture 'pop culture'
2. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
antifederalist
grievance
economic status
Impeach
3. 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)
market economy
Jefferson Davis
Battle of Gettysburg
unalienable right
4. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
population boom
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
government bureaucracy
commercial
5. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
Patrick Henry
benjamin franklin
federalism
censorship
6. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
theocracy
adjacent
possessions
7. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
possessions
democratic republic
export
Seperation of Powers
8. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
Judicial Review
William Lloyd Garrison
gross domestic product
Emancipation Proclamations
9. 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
Tenth Amedment
Federalist Papers
Farewell Address
Battle of Saratoga
10. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
autocracy
censorship
amendment
population density
11. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
significant
landlocked
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Fifteenth Amendment
12. The constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to counsel - the right to confront witnesses - and the right to a speedy and public trial.
subsistence economy
literacy rate
sixth amendment
legitmacy
13. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
Steel Plow
ninth amendment
prohibited
finalcial resources
14. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
treason
President Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
free enterprise economy
15. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
civil disobedience
confined
geographical
The Declaration of Independence
16. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
rural
nullification
Steel Plow
significant
17. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
technological advances
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
harsh
18. Not allowed
Farewell Address
acquire
Mayflower Compact
prohibited
19. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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20. 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
labor force
Alexander Hamilton
William Lloyd Garrison
Ulysses S grant
21. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Daniel Webster
secede
benjamin franklin
Jamestown
22. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
population boom
Abraham Lincoln
popular culture 'pop culture'
economic status
23. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
acquire
Common Sense
Mexican Cession
Susan B Anothony
24. Economic theory that a country's strength is measured by the amount of gold it has that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the the Mother Country
mercantilism
Interchangeable Parts
Impeach
government bureaucracy
25. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Frederick Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
relevant
Fourteenth Amendment
26. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
tariff
life expectancy
secondary sources
currency
27. 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
Bill of Rights
Henry Clay
birthrate
28. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
ninth amendment
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
federalist
accusations
29. 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.'
Conord Massachusetts
market economy
second amendment
Patrick Henry
30. General of the confederate army
infected
textile
Robert E. Lee
autocracy
31. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
standard of living
Democracy
harsh
accusations
32. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
Thirteenth Amendment
route
Judicial Review
33. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
confined
population density
standard of living
foreign policy
34. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Farewell Address
Battle of Saratoga
economic status
James Monroe
35. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Cotton Gin
Frederick Douglas
treason
36. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Samuel Adams
treason
resolution
37. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
William Lloyd Garrison
market economy
treason
Tea Act
38. Means to improve by vote
unalienable right
Bessemer Process
government bureaucracy
ratify
39. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
nullification
population growth
state's rights
foreign policy
40. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
Harriet Tubman
popular culture 'pop culture'
geographical
crossroads
41. Things that you own
Impeach
possessions
checks and balances
magna carta
42. 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
militia
Treaty of Paris of 1763
prospertiy
The Declaration of Independence
43. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
Telegraph
secondary sources
ninth amendment
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
44. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
free enterprise
Fifteenth Amendment
Mayflower Compact
Reaper
45. 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
Gettysburg Adress
provisions
gross domestic product
ninth amendment
46. The right to vote
suffrage
Harriet Tubman
second amendment
life expectancy
47. Led to the Boston Tea Party
economic status
raw materials
accusations
Tea Act
48. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
direct representation
Northwest Ordiance
The Constitution of the United States
Samuel Adams
49. 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
Gibbons vs. Ogden
James Monroe
route
Henry Clay
50. Widespread hunger within a given region
acquire
cultivation
famine
Robert E. Lee