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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. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
migration
William Lloyd Garrison
Battle of Gettysburg
The Constitution of the United States
2. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
prospertiy
Interchangeable Parts
efficiency
The Constitution of the United States
3. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
infectious disease
primary sources
textile
free enterprise economy
4. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
The Constitution of the United States
third amendment
democratic republic
foreign policy
5. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
direct representation
Jamestown
infected
labor force
6. 'Father of the Constitution'
The Constitution of the United States
infectious disease
James Madison
Cotton Gin
7. To change
Henry Clay
commader
amend
commercial
8. Is a cruel and unjust government
possessions
tyranny
population growth
absolute monarch
9. 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.'
autocracy
Patrick Henry
The Constitution of the United States
market economy
10. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
Appomattox Curt House
The Declaration of Independence
President Thomas Jefferson
separation of powers
11. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
gross domestic product
Appomattox Curt House
tyranny
Seperation of Powers
12. To contaminate or corup
famine
nullify
infected
literacy rate
13. 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
textile
Alexander Hamilton
route
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
14. 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
economic status
cottage industry
absolute monarch
End of the American Revolution
15. John Deere
Steel Plow
diplomatic relations
confined
Fifteenth Amendment
16. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
free enterprise
acquire
Appomattox Curt House
Telegraph
17. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
James Monroe
First shot of Civil War
federalist
population density
18. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
harsh
popular culture 'pop culture'
acquire
19. Relationships that exsits between governments
limited government
third amendment
devastated
diplomatic relations
20. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
Cotton Gin
Conord Massachusetts
efficiency
21. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
government bureaucracy
life expectancy
nullify
checks and balances
22. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
efficiency
Proclamation of 1763
urban
landlocked
23. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
urban
Democracy
ninth amendment
raw materials
24. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
federalism
Andrew Jackson
militia
Harriet Tubman
25. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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26. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
prospertiy
infected
gross domestic product
route
27. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Mayflower Compact
checks and balances
route
per capita income
28. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
Common Sense
accusations
subsistence economy
Mexican Cession
29. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
President Thomas Jefferson
Robert E. Lee
adjacent
Civil War
30. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
Tea Act
King George III
Andrew Jackson
export
31. 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
magna carta
economic status
Ulysses S grant
The Declaration of Independence
32. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
James Monroe
significant
nullification
per capita income
33. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
Robert E. Lee
amend
route
commercial
34. The state of acting according to law; lawful
literacy rate
The Declaration of Independence
legitmacy
Battle of Gettysburg
35. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
secede
Bill of Rights
economic status
ninth amendment
36. Robert Fulton
amend
popular culture 'pop culture'
Battle of Saratoga
Steamboat
37. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
provisions
Samuel Adams
tyranny
38. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
federalist
technological advances
free enterprise
James Madison
39. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
urban
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
third amendment
40. Things that you own
literacy rate
possessions
The Constitution of the United States
federal
41. Women's rights organizer
Battle of Gettysburg
cultivation
Susan B Anothony
Steel Plow
42. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
diversity
The first shots of the American Revolution
devastated
Fifteenth Amendment
43. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Farewell Address
crossroads
raw materials
Tea Act
44. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Battle of Saratoga
popular soverignty
Mayflower Compact
Robert E. Lee
45. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
federal
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Marbury vs. Madison
46. Leader of the original democratic party and a 'president of the pople' he was also responsbible for the Trail of Tears - which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River
provisions
Andrew Jackson
amendment
secede
47. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
market economy
Jefferson Davis
Treaty of Paris of 1763
second amendment
48. General of the confederate army
migration
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Tea Act
Robert E. Lee
49. A point at which an important decision must be made
benjamin franklin
subsistence economy
crossroads
gross domestic product
50. Improtant points in an event
James Monroe
milestones
amendment
abolition