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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. Changing iron into steal
Bessemer Process
Susan B Anothony
milestones
Fifteenth Amendment
2. Abolished slavery
gross domestic product
Thirteenth Amendment
Seperation of Powers
provisions
3. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
export
consumer demand
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
4. 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)
unalienable right
milestones
Steamboat
popular culture 'pop culture'
5. 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
export
Northwest Ordiance
grievance
The Constitution of the United States
6. Having to do with business
John C. Calhoun
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
commercial
checks and balances
7. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
grievance
treason
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
popular culture 'pop culture'
8. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
accusations
free enterprise economy
geographical
currency
9. Improtant points in an event
federalist
nullify
The Constitution of the United States
milestones
10. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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11. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
theocracy
Tea Act
prospertiy
ninth amendment
12. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
treason
Tenth Amedment
per capita income
13. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
prospertiy
devastated
crossroads
Bessemer Process
14. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
grievance
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
benjamin franklin
population density
15. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
Henry Clay
famine
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
William Lloyd Garrison
16. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
government bureaucracy
Civil War
landlocked
legitmacy
17. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
antifederalist
standard of living
John C. Calhoun
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
18. 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
Marbury vs. Madison
devastated
The Constitution of the United States
consumer demand
19. 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
population density
amendment
Northwest Ordiance
Gibbons vs. Ogden
20. The desire for goods and services by thoe who have the financial reserves to acqurie them (the amount of sutomers that want to buy something)
consumer demand
separation of powers
secondary sources
amendment
21. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
acquire
third amendment
infectious disease
The first shots of the American Revolution
22. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
Daniel Webster
Tea Act
Cotton Gin
James Monroe
23. To contaminate or corup
distribution
acquire
democratic republic
infected
24. 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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25. Robert Fulton
secede
magna carta
cultivation
Steamboat
26. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
Mayflower Compact
diversity
population density
efficiency
27. Living in a country
benjamin franklin
Appomattox Curt House
Gibbons vs. Ogden
rural
28. An act of the Second Continental Congress - adopted on July 4 - 1776 - which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were 'Free and Independent States' and that 'all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain - is a
Marbury vs. Madison
The Constitution of the United States
The Declaration of Independence
civil disobedience
29. A point at which an important decision must be made
federalism
Treaty of Paris of 1763
crossroads
first amendment
30. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Mayflower Compact
Tea Act
Tenth Amedment
geographical
31. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
significant
Henry Clay
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
acquire
32. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
birthrate
federalist
nullify
secede
33. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
government bureaucracy
antifederalist
third amendment
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
34. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
cultivation
Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
foreign policy
35. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
per capita income
relevant
Thirteenth Amendment
Interchangeable Parts
36. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
economic status
tyranny
population boom
Bessemer Process
37. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
population boom
federalism
unalienable right
theocracy
38. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
finalcial resources
crossroads
nullify
Mexican Cession
39. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
The first shots of the American Revolution
Jamestown
export
federal
40. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Frederick Douglas
First shot of Civil War
tariff
devastated
41. Samuel Morse
Telegraph
confined
gross domestic product
Fourteenth Amendment
42. Living in a city
urban
Mayflower Compact
Ulysses S grant
Interchangeable Parts
43. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
Reaper
command economy
Harriet Tubman
second amendment
44. The state of acting according to law; lawful
amendment
legitmacy
confined
The Great Compromise
45. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
draft
labor force
raw materials
civil disobedience
46. Things that you own
possessions
censorship
export
militia
47. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
Steamboat
democratic republic
Mexican Cession
provisions
48. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
crossroads
turmoil
Alexander Hamilton
direct representation
49. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
state's rights
Fifteenth Amendment
cottage industry
limited government
50. Leader of the Federalist - first Treasurer of the US creator of the Bank of the U.S. killed in a duel by the Vice President of the US Aaron Burr
Mexican Cession
Alexander Hamilton
End of the American Revolution
second amendment