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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. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Battle of Gettysburg
resolution
Civil War
prospertiy
2. Important to a certain event or topic
censorship
prospertiy
standard of living
significant
3. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
turmoil
Henry Clay
Tea Act
population boom
4. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Daniel Webster
The first shots of the American Revolution
export
Northwest Ordiance
5. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
Jamestown
third amendment
antifederalist
popular culture 'pop culture'
6. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
significant
commader
population boom
antifederalist
7. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Ulysses S grant
unalienable right
Cotton Gin
Seperation of Powers
8. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
third amendment
federalism
federal
9. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
population growth
market economy
Fourteenth Amendment
government bureaucracy
10. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
first amendment
James Madison
Common Sense
Mexican Cession
11. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
draft
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
The first shots of the American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence
12. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
finalcial resources
Appomattox Curt House
Thirteenth Amendment
Mayflower Compact
13. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
Marbury vs. Madison
resolution
antifederalist
Jamestown
14. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
secede
Navigation Acts
absolute monarch
secondary sources
15. 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
famine
End of the American Revolution
command economy
Marbury vs. Madison
16. Widespread hunger within a given region
absolute monarch
federalism
famine
Frederick Douglas
17. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
Gettysburg Adress
grievance
tariff
Abraham Lincoln
18. To obtain or receive
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
acquire
commader
Mexican Cession
19. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
secede
Jamestown
route
acquire
20. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
population density
state's rights
tariff
21. A point at which an important decision must be made
democratic republic
crossroads
commercial
Interchangeable Parts
22. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
Conord Massachusetts
legitmacy
Tea Act
milestones
23. 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
Treaty of Paris of 1763
efficiency
suffrage
Fifteenth Amendment
24. Relationships that exsits between governments
diplomatic relations
command economy
James Madison
mercantilism
25. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
Farewell Address
ratify
militia
third amendment
26. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
Ulysses S grant
suffrage
The first shots of the American Revolution
free enterprise economy
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.
theocracy
Mayflower Compact
abolition
confined
28. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
absolute monarch
accusations
federal
raw materials
29. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
accusations
export
civil disobedience
labor force
30. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
popular culture 'pop culture'
autocracy
unalienable right
commader
31. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
32. Things that you own
popular culture 'pop culture'
currency
possessions
geographical
33. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
John C. Calhoun
command economy
cultivation
commader
34. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
birthrate
ratify
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
absolute monarch
35. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
infectious disease
magna carta
provisions
Mexican Cession
36. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
landlocked
absolute monarch
Emancipation Proclamations
37. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
antifederalist
The Great Compromise
legitmacy
raw materials
38. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
democratic republic
commercial
legitmacy
diversity
39. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
significant
Proclamation of 1763
consumer demand
Mexican Cession
40. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
Cotton Gin
finalcial resources
limited government
migration
41. 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
Samuel Adams
draft
relevant
42. Improtant points in an event
Tea Act
consumer demand
milestones
amendment
43. To be compeletly destroyed
Interchangeable Parts
treason
third amendment
devastated
44. Living in a country
Jamestown
Thirteenth Amendment
rural
Conord Massachusetts
45. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
King George III
Battle of Saratoga
ratify
commercial
46. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
distribution
landlocked
Common Sense
market economy
47. To withdraw or pull away
secede
Appomattox Curt House
birthrate
cultivation
48. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
checks and balances
standard of living
Mexican Cession
acquire
49. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
urban
Jamestown
diplomatic relations
currency
50. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Bill of Rights
per capita income
Bessemer Process
Judicial Review