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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. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
draft
turmoil
relevant
raw materials
2. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
Daniel Webster
third amendment
Cotton Gin
3. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
free enterprise
resolution
turmoil
currency
4. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Common Sense
economic status
Steamboat
Marbury vs. Madison
5. 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
primary sources
Civil War
Ulysses S grant
Gibbons vs. Ogden
6. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
technological advances
President Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
primary sources
7. 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.'
unalienable right
distribution
Patrick Henry
King George III
8. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
cottage industry
Steel Plow
harsh
significant
9. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
nullify
route
Bill of Rights
first amendment
10. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
First shot of Civil War
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
turmoil
draft
11. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
accusations
First shot of Civil War
Jefferson Davis
treason
12. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
urban
commercial
President Thomas Jefferson
Gibbons vs. Ogden
13. The right to vote
textile
suffrage
command economy
democratic republic
14. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
government bureaucracy
militia
Interchangeable Parts
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
15. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Daniel Webster
mercantilism
Proclamation of 1763
Frederick Douglas
16. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
third amendment
famine
cultivation
Jamestown
17. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
amend
First shot of Civil War
prospertiy
tariff
18. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
federal
secondary sources
Tea Act
literacy rate
19. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
free enterprise
currency
Tenth Amedment
Marbury vs. Madison
20. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
Bessemer Process
Farewell Address
Fourteenth Amendment
infectious disease
21. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
separation of powers
Fifteenth Amendment
diplomatic relations
censorship
22. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Cotton Gin
Bill of Rights
geographical
per capita income
23. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
diversity
limited government
devastated
End of the American Revolution
24. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Tea Act
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
distribution
labor force
25. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
population boom
censorship
geographical
Mayflower Compact
26. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
Andrew Jackson
gross domestic product
population growth
provisions
27. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
grievance
Jamestown
raw materials
direct representation
28. To contaminate or corup
Emancipation Proclamations
infected
textile
Reaper
29. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
federalist
Battle of Gettysburg
Judicial Review
market economy
30. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Mexican Cession
federalist
grievance
standard of living
31. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Battle of Saratoga
popular culture 'pop culture'
Proclamation of 1763
tyranny
32. Widespread hunger within a given region
federalist
distribution
End of the American Revolution
famine
33. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
First shot of Civil War
livstock
significant
free enterprise
34. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
amendment
Cotton Gin
Judicial Review
Treaty of Paris of 1763
35. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
democratic republic
free enterprise
civil disobedience
secondary sources
36. To be compeletly destroyed
Proclamation of 1763
devastated
civil disobedience
separation of powers
37. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
population density
democratic republic
Thomas Jefferson
38. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
popular culture 'pop culture'
commercial
Civil War
federalist
39. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
John C. Calhoun
censorship
Harriet Tubman
significant
40. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
market economy
popular culture 'pop culture'
The first shots of the American Revolution
41. Having to do with business
route
commercial
cottage industry
Battle of Saratoga
42. General of the confederate army
Judicial Review
secede
Robert E. Lee
unalienable right
43. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
abolition
Conord Massachusetts
finalcial resources
free enterprise economy
44. Improtant points in an event
milestones
legitmacy
cultivation
Patrick Henry
45. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
resolution
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
devastated
46. 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';
The Constitution of the United States
Telegraph
infectious disease
life expectancy
47. Relationships that exsits between governments
diplomatic relations
raw materials
nullify
state's rights
48. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
popular soverignty
standard of living
Battle of Saratoga
The first shots of the American Revolution
49. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
Gibbons vs. Ogden
currency
The Great Compromise
geographical
50. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
Farewell Address
foreign policy
technological advances
autocracy