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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
ninth amendment
birthrate
Jamestown
distribution
2. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Gibbons vs. Ogden
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
Fifteenth Amendment
3. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
life expectancy
suffrage
Henry Clay
nullification
4. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
birthrate
population boom
rural
accusations
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
Fourteenth Amendment
Impeach
secede
Northwest Ordiance
6. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Federalist Papers
acquire
first amendment
Common Sense
7. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
population boom
resolution
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Appomattox Curt House
8. The state of acting according to law; lawful
Fourteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
absolute monarch
legitmacy
9. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
federalism
President Thomas Jefferson
direct representation
landlocked
10. 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
civil disobedience
currency
Emancipation Proclamations
Andrew Jackson
11. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
famine
population density
John C. Calhoun
Impeach
12. The constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to counsel - the right to confront witnesses - and the right to a speedy and public trial.
censorship
nullify
consumer demand
sixth amendment
13. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Thirteenth Amendment
treason
literacy rate
Marbury vs. Madison
14. John Deere
Thomas Jefferson
commercial
Steel Plow
amendment
15. Fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Fifteenth Amendment
First shot of Civil War
federal
ratify
16. Things that you own
provisions
popular culture 'pop culture'
population density
possessions
17. A point at which an important decision must be made
possessions
ratify
crossroads
direct representation
18. Led to the Boston Tea Party
birthrate
Tea Act
Judicial Review
Battle of Saratoga
19. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
federalism
William Lloyd Garrison
direct representation
James Madison
20. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
first amendment
absolute monarch
free enterprise economy
Civil War
21. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Harriet Tubman
population density
Judicial Review
popular soverignty
22. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Farewell Address
gross domestic product
commercial
23. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
Alexander Hamilton
federal
finalcial resources
consumer demand
24. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal goverment regulations
significant
free enterprise
government bureaucracy
geographical
25. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Jefferson Davis
Frederick Douglas
acquire
suffrage
26. Living in a country
rural
Bessemer Process
Steel Plow
Interchangeable Parts
27. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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28. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
livstock
secede
Harriet Tubman
Farewell Address
29. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
Navigation Acts
adjacent
cultivation
Abraham Lincoln
30. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
antifederalist
John C. Calhoun
Cotton Gin
command economy
31. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
free enterprise economy
separation of powers
subsistence economy
Jefferson Davis
32. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
third amendment
geographical
cottage industry
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
33. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
rural
federalist
labor force
unalienable right
34. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
Daniel Webster
Battle of Gettysburg
democratic republic
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
35. 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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36. An agreement singed in 1620 b the Pilgrims in Playmouth - to consult each other baout laws for the colony and a promise to work together to make it succeed. Postive step towards self - rule.
labor force
Gettysburg Adress
Mayflower Compact
popular soverignty
37. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
livstock
nullify
James Madison
antifederalist
38. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
significant
tyranny
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
39. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
federalism
direct representation
distribution
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
40. Compliantes againsts a person or state
benjamin franklin
James Monroe
accusations
grievance
41. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
life expectancy
draft
Mexican Cession
antifederalist
42. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
currency
population density
sixth amendment
first amendment
43. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
The Great Compromise
First shot of Civil War
accusations
life expectancy
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.'
state's rights
urban
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Patrick Henry
45. Relationships that exsits between governments
diplomatic relations
economic status
raw materials
Northwest Ordiance
46. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
rural
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
checks and balances
finalcial resources
47. Realting to an event
Patrick Henry
crossroads
accusations
relevant
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';
Tenth Amedment
The Constitution of the United States
Mayflower Compact
Cotton Gin
49. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Cotton Gin
Abraham Lincoln
cottage industry
amend
50. 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
Seperation of Powers
standard of living
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Jamestown
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