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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
Jefferson Davis
sixth amendment
End of the American Revolution
2. Important to a certain event or topic
treason
provisions
tariff
significant
3. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
Fifteenth Amendment
famine
Farewell Address
antifederalist
4. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
famine
state's rights
Robert E. Lee
5. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
cottage industry
population boom
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
commader
6. 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
Alexander Hamilton
Telegraph
King George III
infected
7. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
Proclamation of 1763
second amendment
mercantilism
militia
8. Next to or beside
efficiency
popular soverignty
adjacent
command economy
9. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
nullification
First shot of Civil War
Democracy
infectious disease
10. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Battle of Saratoga
amendment
confined
Farewell Address
11. Short speech given by Abrahman Lincoln to dedicate a cemetry for soliders who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is considered a profound statement of American ideals. Four score and seven years ago - our fathers....and that governemtn of the peopl
economic status
commader
Gettysburg Adress
crossroads
12. Realting to an event
livstock
relevant
theocracy
ratify
13. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
Fifteenth Amendment
Patrick Henry
checks and balances
14. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
Bessemer Process
crossroads
unalienable right
federal
15. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Fifteenth Amendment
literacy rate
John C. Calhoun
William Lloyd Garrison
16. Robert Fulton
Steamboat
Daniel Webster
popular culture 'pop culture'
livstock
17. 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
nullify
foreign policy
harsh
18. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
sixth amendment
livstock
grievance
separation of powers
19. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
Conord Massachusetts
benjamin franklin
significant
diplomatic relations
20. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
Jamestown
John C. Calhoun
Robert E. Lee
turmoil
21. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
Fourteenth Amendment
adjacent
Susan B Anothony
government bureaucracy
22. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Mexican Cession
theocracy
Bessemer Process
23. Samuel Morse
nullification
Telegraph
resolution
legitmacy
24. Led to the Boston Tea Party
route
Democracy
Tea Act
efficiency
25. Having to do with clothing
Mexican Cession
militia
infected
textile
26. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
first amendment
literacy rate
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
birthrate
27. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
market economy
Common Sense
migration
gross domestic product
28. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Farewell Address
popular culture 'pop culture'
population boom
Steel Plow
29. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
Farewell Address
accusations
export
popular soverignty
30. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
confined
federal
life expectancy
mercantilism
31. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
President Thomas Jefferson
Interchangeable Parts
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
famine
32. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Susan B Anothony
Thomas Jefferson
Steel Plow
command economy
33. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
population boom
crossroads
Democracy
magna carta
34. 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
acquire
life expectancy
ninth amendment
Treaty of Paris of 1763
35. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
population density
Alexander Hamilton
literacy rate
absolute monarch
36. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
geographical
Navigation Acts
benjamin franklin
censorship
37. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Interchangeable Parts
Tenth Amedment
Harriet Tubman
Telegraph
38. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
mercantilism
finalcial resources
The Declaration of Independence
export
39. Abolished slavery
gross domestic product
Thirteenth Amendment
Interchangeable Parts
Daniel Webster
40. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
Harriet Tubman
The first shots of the American Revolution
federalist
finalcial resources
41. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
censorship
Interchangeable Parts
diversity
life expectancy
42. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
James Monroe
William Lloyd Garrison
possessions
nullification
43. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
first amendment
secondary sources
tyranny
Frederick Douglas
44. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
absolute monarch
treason
Gettysburg Adress
Farewell Address
45. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
Navigation Acts
checks and balances
export
46. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
Fourteenth Amendment
landlocked
tyranny
Treaty of Paris of 1763
47. 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
censorship
suffrage
Northwest Ordiance
Thirteenth Amendment
48. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
per capita income
tyranny
federalist
population boom
49. Living in a country
Alexander Hamilton
foreign policy
democratic republic
rural
50. A point at which an important decision must be made
milestones
crossroads
federalist
Alexander Hamilton