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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. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
nullification
Emancipation Proclamations
William Lloyd Garrison
popular culture 'pop culture'
2. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
ninth amendment
Farewell Address
labor force
Mexican Cession
3. 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)
second amendment
unalienable right
The Constitution of the United States
government bureaucracy
4. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
secondary sources
separation of powers
population density
Civil War
5. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Thomas Jefferson
Mexican Cession
possessions
Jamestown
6. Next to or beside
third amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Battle of Gettysburg
adjacent
7. Is a cruel and unjust government
population density
tyranny
landlocked
prospertiy
8. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
free enterprise
possessions
third amendment
legitmacy
9. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
Battle of Saratoga
standard of living
Tenth Amedment
Mexican Cession
10. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
censorship
Harriet Tubman
Democracy
literacy rate
11. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
The Great Compromise
geographical
free enterprise economy
Mayflower Compact
12. Robert Fulton
significant
President Thomas Jefferson
Battle of Gettysburg
Steamboat
13. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
Judicial Review
second amendment
possessions
Battle of Saratoga
14. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
abolition
amend
economic status
infectious disease
15. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
population growth
antifederalist
life expectancy
Susan B Anothony
16. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
End of the American Revolution
Emancipation Proclamations
foreign policy
textile
17. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
First shot of Civil War
The Great Compromise
population density
Steamboat
18. 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
Reaper
Alexander Hamilton
First shot of Civil War
Robert E. Lee
19. Having to do with clothing
textile
confined
civil disobedience
significant
20. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
amend
Andrew Jackson
prospertiy
Appomattox Curt House
21. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
magna carta
second amendment
Impeach
command economy
22. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
Reaper
Jamestown
Judicial Review
significant
23. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
command economy
landlocked
Battle of Saratoga
possessions
24. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
livstock
harsh
treason
literacy rate
25. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
technological advances
federalism
Conord Massachusetts
militia
26. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
William Lloyd Garrison
Marbury vs. Madison
ninth amendment
Proclamation of 1763
27. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
urban
Proclamation of 1763
President Thomas Jefferson
Seperation of Powers
28. Realting to an event
relevant
adjacent
foreign policy
free enterprise economy
29. 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
efficiency
End of the American Revolution
provisions
popular soverignty
30. 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
devastated
suffrage
censorship
Marbury vs. Madison
31. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Common Sense
cultivation
life expectancy
textile
32. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
government bureaucracy
resolution
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
abolition
33. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
Proclamation of 1763
route
foreign policy
geographical
34. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
first amendment
acquire
Samuel Adams
Conord Massachusetts
35. Things that you own
subsistence economy
per capita income
turmoil
possessions
36. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
second amendment
Cotton Gin
harsh
civil disobedience
37. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
geographical
Thirteenth Amendment
checks and balances
Cotton Gin
38. 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)
magna carta
federalist
James Monroe
consumer demand
39. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
Daniel Webster
population growth
Conord Massachusetts
devastated
40. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
unalienable right
Jefferson Davis
militia
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
41. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
distribution
Democracy
legitmacy
42. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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43. 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
Jefferson Davis
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Andrew Jackson
efficiency
44. 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.'
popular culture 'pop culture'
commercial
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
45. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
federal
devastated
finalcial resources
federalist
46. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Tea Act
Battle of Saratoga
efficiency
subsistence economy
47. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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48. 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
Mayflower Compact
population growth
nullify
49. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
abolition
cultivation
turmoil
James Madison
50. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
finalcial resources
benjamin franklin
Democracy
subsistence economy