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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. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
tariff
Mayflower Compact
diversity
Alexander Hamilton
2. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
birthrate
crossroads
diversity
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
3. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
state's rights
King George III
draft
popular soverignty
4. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Samuel Adams
state's rights
tyranny
life expectancy
5. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
per capita income
Tea Act
nullification
limited government
6. Widespread hunger within a given region
commercial
benjamin franklin
famine
possessions
7. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
diplomatic relations
separation of powers
currency
Seperation of Powers
8. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
infectious disease
nullify
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
per capita income
9. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
Appomattox Curt House
acquire
Samuel Adams
Ulysses S grant
10. Women's rights organizer
direct representation
Farewell Address
Susan B Anothony
federalism
11. The Supreme Court decision that rulled that the consitution gave contorl of interstate comerce to the U.S. congress not the individual states trhough whih a route passed
raw materials
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Jamestown
ninth amendment
12. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
resolution
Andrew Jackson
Jefferson Davis
population growth
13. Having to do with business
Northwest Ordiance
Bessemer Process
federalism
commercial
14. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
textile
geographical
antifederalist
secede
15. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
secede
devastated
Thomas Jefferson
Federalist Papers
16. Abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment
Tea Act
The Declaration of Independence
Cotton Gin
17. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
secondary sources
federalism
Cotton Gin
President Thomas Jefferson
18. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
crossroads
amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
devastated
19. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
life expectancy
turmoil
export
Proclamation of 1763
20. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
benjamin franklin
population boom
Steamboat
21. General of the confederate army
End of the American Revolution
provisions
Robert E. Lee
life expectancy
22. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
geographical
textile
market economy
amendment
23. 'Father of the Constitution'
First shot of Civil War
labor force
James Madison
Jefferson Davis
24. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
Battle of Saratoga
Fourteenth Amendment
technological advances
legitmacy
25. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
labor force
federalism
Common Sense
harsh
26. To be compeletly destroyed
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
amend
devastated
landlocked
27. Improtant points in an event
civil disobedience
Robert E. Lee
Andrew Jackson
milestones
28. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
Daniel Webster
antifederalist
Common Sense
29. Next to or beside
raw materials
suffrage
Henry Clay
adjacent
30. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Conord Massachusetts
distribution
The first shots of the American Revolution
state's rights
31. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
Susan B Anothony
population density
sixth amendment
nullification
32. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Civil War
Mexican Cession
popular culture 'pop culture'
Fifteenth Amendment
33. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
life expectancy
birthrate
amend
distribution
34. 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
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Civil War
labor force
Andrew Jackson
35. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Abraham Lincoln
distribution
Patrick Henry
Frederick Douglas
36. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
per capita income
Common Sense
third amendment
Steel Plow
37. To contaminate or corup
per capita income
infected
prospertiy
Steel Plow
38. Thsoe rights reserved speifically for the state and not given to the federal government
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39. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
sixth amendment
autocracy
resolution
acquire
40. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Susan B Anothony
civil disobedience
primary sources
41. Important; of consequence
significant
democratic republic
gross domestic product
Jefferson Davis
42. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
state's rights
per capita income
Civil War
foreign policy
43. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
James Monroe
Mexican Cession
autocracy
infectious disease
44. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
draft
prohibited
currency
magna carta
45. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
checks and balances
grievance
amendment
cottage industry
46. A point at which an important decision must be made
Frederick Douglas
significant
separation of powers
crossroads
47. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
benjamin franklin
standard of living
adjacent
federalist
48. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Gibbons vs. Ogden
state's rights
Bill of Rights
Thirteenth Amendment
49. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
textile
Conord Massachusetts
King George III
militia
50. 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
federalism
diplomatic relations
economic status
Federalist Papers