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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Series of essays written by James Madison - John Jay - Alexander Hamilton - defending the Consituion and the principles on which the government of the United States was founded
Federalist Papers
Samuel Adams
government bureaucracy
infected
2. The right to vote
relevant
free enterprise economy
suffrage
prospertiy
3. Abolished slavery
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thirteenth Amendment
James Madison
Farewell Address
4. Samuel Morse
confined
limited government
abolition
Telegraph
5. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
foreign policy
turmoil
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
significant
6. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
Emancipation Proclamations
rural
Navigation Acts
separation of powers
7. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
John C. Calhoun
Frederick Douglas
economic status
absolute monarch
8. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
grievance
Samuel Adams
9. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Telegraph
Samuel Adams
Farewell Address
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
10. Important to a certain event or topic
command economy
popular soverignty
significant
technological advances
11. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
nullify
Seperation of Powers
literacy rate
secondary sources
12. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
government bureaucracy
unalienable right
nullification
13. Economic theory that a country's strength is measured by the amount of gold it has that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the the Mother Country
mercantilism
federalism
currency
infectious disease
14. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
President Thomas Jefferson
The Great Compromise
ninth amendment
Steel Plow
15. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Farewell Address
federal
significant
Bill of Rights
16. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Fourteenth Amendment
Proclamation of 1763
The Declaration of Independence
Susan B Anothony
17. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Gettysburg Adress
Mexican Cession
direct representation
militia
18. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
The Declaration of Independence
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Civil War
ninth amendment
19. Having to do with clothing
migration
population density
textile
absolute monarch
20. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
market economy
Cotton Gin
amendment
harsh
21. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
adjacent
Gettysburg Adress
livstock
birthrate
22. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Mexican Cession
raw materials
federalism
Thirteenth Amendment
23. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
route
possessions
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Samuel Adams
24. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
urban
Steamboat
diplomatic relations
Thomas Jefferson
25. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
Impeach
Farewell Address
Common Sense
26. 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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27. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
The Declaration of Independence
federal
efficiency
Frederick Douglas
28. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
Reaper
Frederick Douglas
treason
John C. Calhoun
29. 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.
nullify
Telegraph
The Great Compromise
sixth amendment
30. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
Treaty of Paris of 1763
ninth amendment
censorship
First shot of Civil War
31. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Farewell Address
The first shots of the American Revolution
mercantilism
second amendment
32. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
militia
second amendment
Marbury vs. Madison
John C. Calhoun
33. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
landlocked
prohibited
Telegraph
autocracy
34. Means to improve by vote
theocracy
James Monroe
significant
ratify
35. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
urban
life expectancy
antifederalist
sixth amendment
36. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
benjamin franklin
crossroads
second amendment
migration
37. Things that you own
Civil War
ratify
Tenth Amedment
possessions
38. The legal prohibition and ending of slavery
theocracy
abolition
Proclamation of 1763
federalism
39. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
nullification
tariff
militia
federalism
40. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
population boom
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
adjacent
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
41. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
command economy
First shot of Civil War
federalist
legitmacy
42. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
The Declaration of Independence
relevant
James Madison
finalcial resources
43. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
provisions
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
state's rights
Thirteenth Amendment
44. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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45. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
standard of living
acquire
Interchangeable Parts
Abraham Lincoln
46. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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47. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
relevant
Conord Massachusetts
Farewell Address
life expectancy
48. A point at which an important decision must be made
per capita income
Samuel Adams
The Declaration of Independence
crossroads
49. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Fifteenth Amendment
Judicial Review
Cotton Gin
Battle of Gettysburg
50. Robert Fulton
commader
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Steamboat
militia
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