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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. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Telegraph
Harriet Tubman
nullification
Battle of Saratoga
2. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
The first shots of the American Revolution
popular soverignty
Battle of Saratoga
3. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
antifederalist
route
technological advances
Andrew Jackson
4. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Thirteenth Amendment
Seperation of Powers
rural
Tea Act
5. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
ninth amendment
federal
popular culture 'pop culture'
relevant
6. Is a cruel and unjust government
cultivation
resolution
tyranny
tariff
7. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
Andrew Jackson
limited government
prospertiy
Patrick Henry
8. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
significant
Thirteenth Amendment
separation of powers
antifederalist
9. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Mexican Cession
command economy
consumer demand
theocracy
10. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
absolute monarch
free enterprise economy
11. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
finalcial resources
Federalist Papers
Daniel Webster
labor force
12. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
Cotton Gin
unalienable right
Reaper
autocracy
13. Original records of an event - they incldue eyewitness reports created at the time of an event speeches - and letters by people involved in the event - photographs and artifacts
ninth amendment
amendment
resolution
primary sources
14. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
mercantilism
population boom
Impeach
textile
15. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
first amendment
Proclamation of 1763
popular soverignty
tariff
16. 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
End of the American Revolution
free enterprise economy
Ulysses S grant
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
17. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
free enterprise
infected
secede
labor force
18. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
population boom
Andrew Jackson
treason
19. 'Father of the Constitution'
free enterprise
limited government
diversity
James Madison
20. Realting to an event
significant
relevant
antifederalist
devastated
21. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Abraham Lincoln
Fourteenth Amendment
Henry Clay
Fifteenth Amendment
22. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Patrick Henry
federalism
standard of living
literacy rate
23. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
Seperation of Powers
democratic republic
secondary sources
population density
24. A point at which an important decision must be made
federalist
standard of living
crossroads
The first shots of the American Revolution
25. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
Judicial Review
market economy
First shot of Civil War
infectious disease
26. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
per capita income
Cotton Gin
nullification
Fourteenth Amendment
27. 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.
federalism
autocracy
free enterprise
Mayflower Compact
28. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
tariff
federalism
Frederick Douglas
The Great Compromise
29. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Farewell Address
popular soverignty
Henry Clay
Steamboat
30. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
export
Federalist Papers
famine
Conord Massachusetts
31. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
Abraham Lincoln
Bill of Rights
economic status
secondary sources
32. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
Frederick Douglas
nullify
Fifteenth Amendment
antifederalist
33. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Telegraph
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Fourteenth Amendment
Seperation of Powers
34. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
Thomas Jefferson
currency
provisions
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
35. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Susan B Anothony
population boom
Battle of Gettysburg
federalism
36. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Bill of Rights
limited government
consumer demand
Reaper
37. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
William Lloyd Garrison
Navigation Acts
per capita income
third amendment
38. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
finalcial resources
separation of powers
Civil War
literacy rate
39. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
Patrick Henry
rural
militia
Steel Plow
40. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
birthrate
second amendment
Interchangeable Parts
Jefferson Davis
41. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
antifederalist
technological advances
Abraham Lincoln
government bureaucracy
42. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
tyranny
secondary sources
direct representation
Navigation Acts
43. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Alexander Hamilton
ratify
44. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
popular culture 'pop culture'
checks and balances
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
nullification
45. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
commader
raw materials
federalism
secede
46. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
The Great Compromise
third amendment
Andrew Jackson
possessions
47. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Emancipation Proclamations
Bill of Rights
nullification
famine
48. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
Robert E. Lee
commader
secondary sources
foreign policy
49. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
labor force
diversity
Alexander Hamilton
50. To contaminate or corup
second amendment
antifederalist
infected
nullify