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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. Means to improve by vote
treason
ratify
Seperation of Powers
Battle of Saratoga
2. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
draft
amendment
geographical
Jamestown
3. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
standard of living
Treaty of Paris of 1763
famine
James Monroe
4. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
livstock
Ulysses S grant
efficiency
civil disobedience
5. Improtant points in an event
milestones
third amendment
nullification
Robert E. Lee
6. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
John C. Calhoun
Gibbons vs. Ogden
William Lloyd Garrison
prospertiy
7. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Gettysburg Adress
labor force
Judicial Review
primary sources
8. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Emancipation Proclamations
Alexander Hamilton
Fourteenth Amendment
free enterprise
9. A country or state that is surrouded by land on all sides
treason
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
landlocked
Mayflower Compact
10. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
Civil War
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
autocracy
confined
11. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
The Declaration of Independence
birthrate
mercantilism
command economy
12. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
prospertiy
second amendment
Harriet Tubman
limited government
13. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
foreign policy
crossroads
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
accusations
14. To obtain or receive
urban
Judicial Review
grievance
acquire
15. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Gibbons vs. Ogden
literacy rate
James Monroe
Cotton Gin
16. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
provisions
economic status
Patrick Henry
population boom
17. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
popular culture 'pop culture'
Navigation Acts
raw materials
labor force
18. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
absolute monarch
The Constitution of the United States
federalism
amend
19. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
urban
absolute monarch
landlocked
diversity
20. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
ninth amendment
consumer demand
secondary sources
John C. Calhoun
21. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
resolution
prohibited
antifederalist
22. Important to a certain event or topic
Interchangeable Parts
standard of living
significant
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
23. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
secede
command economy
free enterprise economy
life expectancy
24. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
cultivation
per capita income
secondary sources
25. A course - way - or road for apssage or travel
The Great Compromise
route
efficiency
cultivation
26. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
efficiency
Battle of Gettysburg
Reaper
Impeach
27. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
government bureaucracy
Battle of Saratoga
John C. Calhoun
provisions
28. Relationships that exsits between governments
foreign policy
diplomatic relations
Marbury vs. Madison
commercial
29. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
James Madison
Mayflower Compact
prohibited
Impeach
30. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Battle of Gettysburg
prohibited
Frederick Douglas
mercantilism
31. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
commercial
raw materials
cultivation
population density
32. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
federal
treason
Navigation Acts
Mexican Cession
33. 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)
Marbury vs. Madison
unalienable right
milestones
Tenth Amedment
34. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
draft
finalcial resources
theocracy
popular soverignty
35. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
subsistence economy
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Frederick Douglas
Jefferson Davis
36. 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
rural
Andrew Jackson
commader
nullification
37. 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
King George III
Alexander Hamilton
treason
Navigation Acts
38. Women's rights organizer
The first shots of the American Revolution
Susan B Anothony
unalienable right
infected
39. Moving from one place to antoher
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
finalcial resources
migration
President Thomas Jefferson
40. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Tea Act
Marbury vs. Madison
Proclamation of 1763
significant
41. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
turmoil
primary sources
nullify
Cotton Gin
42. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
third amendment
acquire
Tenth Amedment
John C. Calhoun
43. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
Tea Act
Bill of Rights
militia
legitmacy
44. Realting to an event
popular soverignty
federalist
Andrew Jackson
relevant
45. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
Battle of Saratoga
secondary sources
benjamin franklin
diplomatic relations
46. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
literacy rate
export
technological advances
finalcial resources
47. 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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48. Changing iron into steal
geographical
Bessemer Process
Marbury vs. Madison
primary sources
49. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
free enterprise economy
Jamestown
population density
popular soverignty
50. To withdraw or pull away
Reaper
theocracy
secede
currency
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