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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. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Frederick Douglas
second amendment
President Thomas Jefferson
Federalist Papers
2. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Northwest Ordiance
subsistence economy
Patrick Henry
Bill of Rights
3. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
theocracy
Fifteenth Amendment
Mexican Cession
prohibited
4. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
democratic republic
literacy rate
direct representation
Samuel Adams
5. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
James Monroe
Tea Act
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Appomattox Curt House
6. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
accusations
infectious disease
raw materials
Henry Clay
7. 'Father of the Constitution'
theocracy
standard of living
James Madison
Daniel Webster
8. Is a cruel and unjust government
landlocked
tyranny
nullify
raw materials
9. To contaminate or corup
infected
nullification
third amendment
route
10. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
urban
mercantilism
per capita income
finalcial resources
11. Means to improve by vote
milestones
ratify
magna carta
relevant
12. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
finalcial resources
Judicial Review
ratify
relevant
13. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
third amendment
textile
technological advances
Bessemer Process
14. Established a system of setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the UNion. its consitution had to provide for a representative governemnt and ithad to prohibit slavery
state's rights
grievance
First shot of Civil War
Northwest Ordiance
15. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
unalienable right
Patrick Henry
command economy
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
16. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
autocracy
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
magna carta
Gettysburg Adress
17. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
direct representation
diversity
textile
provisions
18. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
secede
popular soverignty
Steamboat
population growth
19. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
William Lloyd Garrison
mercantilism
Tea Act
population density
20. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
unalienable right
distribution
John C. Calhoun
commercial
21. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
significant
Cotton Gin
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
finalcial resources
22. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
Robert E. Lee
geographical
suffrage
militia
23. Relationships that exsits between governments
diplomatic relations
Alexander Hamilton
foreign policy
nullification
24. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
tariff
Fifteenth Amendment
Marbury vs. Madison
Steamboat
25. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
free enterprise economy
Steamboat
tyranny
provisions
26. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
resolution
Treaty of Paris of 1763
free enterprise economy
first amendment
27. Realting to an event
birthrate
Thirteenth Amendment
textile
relevant
28. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
popular culture 'pop culture'
Steel Plow
adjacent
29. Not allowed
democratic republic
prohibited
checks and balances
Impeach
30. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
Bessemer Process
autocracy
primary sources
diversity
31. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
migration
labor force
Emancipation Proclamations
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
32. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
population growth
Gettysburg Adress
Appomattox Curt House
popular soverignty
33. Important to a certain event or topic
currency
nullification
Alexander Hamilton
significant
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
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Battle of Saratoga
Andrew Jackson
foreign policy
35. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
rural
migration
Steel Plow
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
36. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
currency
infectious disease
livstock
Federalist Papers
37. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
efficiency
birthrate
raw materials
population growth
38. 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';
gross domestic product
Andrew Jackson
The Constitution of the United States
population boom
39. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
first amendment
Conord Massachusetts
draft
Proclamation of 1763
40. To change
amend
diversity
labor force
sixth amendment
41. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
Daniel Webster
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Thomas Jefferson
life expectancy
42. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Robert E. Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Mayflower Compact
turmoil
43. Having to do with clothing
Thomas Jefferson
Conord Massachusetts
textile
suffrage
44. Changing iron into steal
Bessemer Process
amendment
absolute monarch
route
45. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
economic status
Tea Act
Jefferson Davis
Daniel Webster
46. 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
route
distribution
foreign policy
47. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
geographical
federalism
subsistence economy
Impeach
48. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
John C. Calhoun
limited government
standard of living
per capita income
49. 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
The Constitution of the United States
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Marbury vs. Madison
unalienable right
50. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
nullify
tyranny
Daniel Webster
checks and balances