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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. To be compeletly destroyed
geographical
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
commercial
devastated
2. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
Navigation Acts
popular soverignty
second amendment
civil disobedience
3. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Farewell Address
separation of powers
popular culture 'pop culture'
landlocked
4. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
accusations
Fourteenth Amendment
Daniel Webster
textile
5. John Deere
infectious disease
Steel Plow
confined
mercantilism
6. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
federal
diplomatic relations
second amendment
labor force
7. Living in a city
Bessemer Process
urban
Navigation Acts
Robert E. Lee
8. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
accusations
Jefferson Davis
amendment
The Declaration of Independence
9. 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
currency
Andrew Jackson
benjamin franklin
Jamestown
10. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
free enterprise economy
birthrate
subsistence economy
separation of powers
11. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
prohibited
command economy
population boom
literacy rate
12. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
life expectancy
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
13. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
militia
export
Judicial Review
Susan B Anothony
14. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
King George III
provisions
Alexander Hamilton
efficiency
15. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
textile
Impeach
raw materials
livstock
16. Is a cruel and unjust government
Robert E. Lee
autocracy
tyranny
secede
17. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
The Great Compromise
Federalist Papers
rural
18. To withdraw or pull away
Impeach
secede
separation of powers
relevant
19. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
grievance
landlocked
population boom
20. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
Common Sense
President Thomas Jefferson
technological advances
milestones
21. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
checks and balances
Seperation of Powers
First shot of Civil War
finalcial resources
22. A point at which an important decision must be made
crossroads
John C. Calhoun
cultivation
diversity
23. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Harriet Tubman
Reaper
Frederick Douglas
24. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
finalcial resources
export
Abraham Lincoln
adjacent
25. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Judicial Review
nullification
popular soverignty
Proclamation of 1763
26. 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
unalienable right
Frederick Douglas
harsh
Alexander Hamilton
27. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
state's rights
checks and balances
gross domestic product
Susan B Anothony
28. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Conord Massachusetts
free enterprise
Bill of Rights
Battle of Gettysburg
29. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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30. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
accusations
militia
free enterprise
ratify
31. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
tyranny
life expectancy
Common Sense
First shot of Civil War
32. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
autocracy
Patrick Henry
Civil War
Farewell Address
33. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
checks and balances
draft
democratic republic
Seperation of Powers
34. Important; of consequence
mercantilism
significant
Marbury vs. Madison
Andrew Jackson
35. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
efficiency
urban
rural
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
36. 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
Navigation Acts
ratify
tariff
37. 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
The Constitution of the United States
government bureaucracy
End of the American Revolution
38. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
The Declaration of Independence
harsh
absolute monarch
federalism
39. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
rural
Appomattox Curt House
James Madison
Steel Plow
40. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Common Sense
Impeach
King George III
Judicial Review
41. Improtant points in an event
ninth amendment
separation of powers
milestones
Tea Act
42. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
grievance
cultivation
amendment
43. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Alexander Hamilton
adjacent
Judicial Review
Cotton Gin
44. 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
federalism
finalcial resources
distribution
Treaty of Paris of 1763
45. 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
James Monroe
finalcial resources
Interchangeable Parts
Marbury vs. Madison
46. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
command economy
Henry Clay
censorship
crossroads
47. 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
provisions
James Madison
John C. Calhoun
End of the American Revolution
48. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
Reaper
civil disobedience
President Thomas Jefferson
commader
49. The right to vote
prospertiy
popular soverignty
William Lloyd Garrison
suffrage
50. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Democracy
Ulysses S grant
secondary sources
government bureaucracy