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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. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
magna carta
Northwest Ordiance
per capita income
tyranny
2. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Frederick Douglas
raw materials
textile
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
3. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Cotton Gin
prohibited
Judicial Review
unalienable right
4. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
amend
prospertiy
foreign policy
5. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Emancipation Proclamations
market economy
Tea Act
resolution
6. Things that you own
possessions
Thirteenth Amendment
Susan B Anothony
theocracy
7. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
nullification
Mexican Cession
Steamboat
civil disobedience
8. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
Northwest Ordiance
Robert E. Lee
Reaper
first amendment
9. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
The Great Compromise
popular soverignty
Jamestown
End of the American Revolution
10. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
federalism
nullification
diplomatic relations
censorship
11. To withdraw or pull away
secede
Appomattox Curt House
landlocked
antifederalist
12. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tea Act
second amendment
Appomattox Curt House
13. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
The Great Compromise
export
Samuel Adams
Abraham Lincoln
14. Living in a city
secede
population growth
urban
Thirteenth Amendment
15. 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
autocracy
Marbury vs. Madison
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Navigation Acts
16. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
suffrage
antifederalist
gross domestic product
tariff
17. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
market economy
urban
distribution
prohibited
18. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
Battle of Saratoga
subsistence economy
harsh
The Constitution of the United States
19. Stated that - 'no state..can lawfully get out of the Union..' bt pledged there would be no war unless the South started it - was ment to hlep heal and resore the country after four years of the Civil War
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20. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
export
Seperation of Powers
second amendment
gross domestic product
21. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
significant
Alexander Hamilton
turmoil
abolition
22. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Appomattox Curt House
checks and balances
Seperation of Powers
federalist
23. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
confined
rural
nullification
24. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
subsistence economy
population boom
Ulysses S grant
amendment
25. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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26. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Tenth Amedment
Bill of Rights
Cotton Gin
diversity
27. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
The Constitution of the United States
civil disobedience
Telegraph
amendment
28. Samuel Morse
End of the American Revolution
adjacent
Fifteenth Amendment
Telegraph
29. Abolished slavery
free enterprise
ninth amendment
Navigation Acts
Thirteenth Amendment
30. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
accusations
Navigation Acts
commader
ninth amendment
31. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Conord Massachusetts
secede
unalienable right
Henry Clay
32. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
James Monroe
ninth amendment
censorship
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
33. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
checks and balances
federalism
Bill of Rights
theocracy
34. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
commercial
Patrick Henry
Mayflower Compact
Harriet Tubman
35. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
first amendment
sixth amendment
significant
benjamin franklin
36. Next to or beside
amendment
federalist
John C. Calhoun
adjacent
37. 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
urban
third amendment
ninth amendment
38. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
Civil War
legitmacy
provisions
Frederick Douglas
39. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
Fifteenth Amendment
Proclamation of 1763
federal
free enterprise economy
40. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
landlocked
harsh
Mayflower Compact
autocracy
41. Not allowed
Fourteenth Amendment
Navigation Acts
birthrate
prohibited
42. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
command economy
export
livstock
Treaty of Paris of 1763
43. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
cottage industry
Steamboat
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Tea Act
44. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
Ulysses S grant
significant
The first shots of the American Revolution
cultivation
45. Means to improve by vote
third amendment
ratify
population density
accusations
46. Important; of consequence
limited government
migration
Seperation of Powers
significant
47. Series of essays written by James Madison - John Jay - Alexander Hamilton - defending the Consituion and the principles on which the government of the United States was founded
Federalist Papers
Steamboat
state's rights
legitmacy
48. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
Interchangeable Parts
magna carta
famine
sixth amendment
49. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
James Monroe
Bill of Rights
grievance
second amendment
50. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
grievance
free enterprise
First shot of Civil War
Impeach