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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
prohibited
government bureaucracy
Thirteenth Amendment
second amendment
2. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
infectious disease
Bill of Rights
Gettysburg Adress
Battle of Saratoga
3. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
limited government
suffrage
Jefferson Davis
Bill of Rights
4. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
cultivation
first amendment
Tea Act
literacy rate
5. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
confined
democratic republic
secondary sources
amendment
6. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
harsh
resolution
infectious disease
Bessemer Process
7. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Interchangeable Parts
primary sources
Civil War
export
8. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
market economy
route
Jefferson Davis
federal
9. 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
infected
Jamestown
Marbury vs. Madison
migration
10. Important to a certain event or topic
Daniel Webster
possessions
free enterprise economy
significant
11. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Daniel Webster
legitmacy
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
The Great Compromise
12. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
grievance
suffrage
First shot of Civil War
Interchangeable Parts
13. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Susan B Anothony
amendment
resolution
raw materials
14. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Reaper
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Marbury vs. Madison
milestones
15. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
cultivation
Farewell Address
cottage industry
Treaty of Paris of 1763
16. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
cultivation
sixth amendment
commercial
amendment
17. Changing iron into steal
Bessemer Process
treason
efficiency
diversity
18. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
infected
The Constitution of the United States
federalism
Fifteenth Amendment
19. The right to vote
Bessemer Process
legitmacy
suffrage
Harriet Tubman
20. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
accusations
textile
market economy
export
21. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
infectious disease
life expectancy
Common Sense
labor force
22. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
Patrick Henry
consumer demand
civil disobedience
Cotton Gin
23. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
secondary sources
draft
Robert E. Lee
Proclamation of 1763
24. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
Henry Clay
King George III
technological advances
federalism
25. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
free enterprise
ninth amendment
urban
per capita income
26. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
tariff
provisions
theocracy
Jamestown
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.
Mayflower Compact
Reaper
third amendment
Emancipation Proclamations
28. To change
The first shots of the American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence
infected
amend
29. Widespread hunger within a given region
gross domestic product
famine
Conord Massachusetts
Common Sense
30. 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
infected
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Ulysses S grant
amend
31. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
popular soverignty
free enterprise economy
economic status
harsh
32. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
milestones
unalienable right
Patrick Henry
John C. Calhoun
33. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Conord Massachusetts
commercial
The Great Compromise
Cotton Gin
34. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
turmoil
currency
federalist
Andrew Jackson
35. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
theocracy
confined
Seperation of Powers
geographical
36. Eli Whitney
gross domestic product
King George III
Interchangeable Parts
Civil War
37. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
commercial
command economy
popular culture 'pop culture'
checks and balances
38. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
censorship
absolute monarch
federalism
Proclamation of 1763
39. 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
Judicial Review
command economy
Jefferson Davis
End of the American Revolution
40. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
federalism
nullification
primary sources
The first shots of the American Revolution
41. 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)
Susan B Anothony
William Lloyd Garrison
unalienable right
technological advances
42. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
Marbury vs. Madison
sixth amendment
direct representation
second amendment
43. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
antifederalist
state's rights
per capita income
significant
44. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
landlocked
livstock
Gettysburg Adress
nullification
45. Compliantes againsts a person or state
Battle of Gettysburg
Tenth Amedment
grievance
secede
46. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Emancipation Proclamations
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
landlocked
Henry Clay
47. Improtant points in an event
finalcial resources
limited government
milestones
Treaty of Paris of 1763
48. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
devastated
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
President Thomas Jefferson
Harriet Tubman
49. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
turmoil
Jefferson Davis
standard of living
theocracy
50. Living in a city
federalism
urban
Reaper
market economy
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