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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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1. The right to vote
diplomatic relations
Jamestown
federal
suffrage
2. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
population boom
treason
abolition
popular culture 'pop culture'
3. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
second amendment
Steel Plow
birthrate
subsistence economy
4. 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
Gibbons vs. Ogden
livstock
efficiency
Bessemer Process
5. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
benjamin franklin
antifederalist
commader
Fourteenth Amendment
6. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Seperation of Powers
Farewell Address
federalism
Samuel Adams
7. Robert Fulton
Steamboat
life expectancy
mercantilism
Common Sense
8. A ruler who governs alone and is not restrianed by laws a constitiuion or custon - usually king or queen
Thomas Jefferson
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
absolute monarch
9. Compliantes againsts a person or state
landlocked
diversity
currency
grievance
10. To contaminate or corup
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
population density
currency
infected
11. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Thomas Jefferson
Gibbons vs. Ogden
gross domestic product
Harriet Tubman
12. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
first amendment
Daniel Webster
Treaty of Paris of 1763
commader
13. Abolished slavery
diplomatic relations
Democracy
Thirteenth Amendment
Tea Act
14. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
limited government
provisions
geographical
birthrate
15. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
Samuel Adams
magna carta
distribution
consumer demand
16. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
first amendment
abolition
Fifteenth Amendment
Telegraph
17. Living in a city
urban
James Madison
draft
tariff
18. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Samuel Adams
Frederick Douglas
adjacent
draft
19. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
amend
nullification
The Great Compromise
free enterprise
20. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
first amendment
adjacent
government bureaucracy
End of the American Revolution
21. 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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22. 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
King George III
Abraham Lincoln
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
23. 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)
harsh
antifederalist
consumer demand
Emancipation Proclamations
24. The state of acting according to law; lawful
legitmacy
First shot of Civil War
efficiency
subsistence economy
25. 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';
Bessemer Process
per capita income
The Constitution of the United States
End of the American Revolution
26. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
John C. Calhoun
resolution
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
27. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
textile
raw materials
civil disobedience
Gibbons vs. Ogden
28. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
government bureaucracy
Impeach
technological advances
29. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Cotton Gin
raw materials
Reaper
Andrew Jackson
30. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
adjacent
famine
The Great Compromise
geographical
31. John Deere
labor force
harsh
Steel Plow
abolition
32. 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
amendment
Alexander Hamilton
significant
Cotton Gin
33. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
grievance
state's rights
popular culture 'pop culture'
34. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
diversity
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
turmoil
democratic republic
35. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
efficiency
textile
Marbury vs. Madison
diversity
36. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
Farewell Address
Emancipation Proclamations
Samuel Adams
draft
37. The turing point of the American Revolution led to a miltiary alliance with France
diplomatic relations
Fourteenth Amendment
Battle of Saratoga
James Monroe
38. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
The first shots of the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris of 1763
milestones
export
39. Having to do with clothing
textile
Tenth Amedment
Frederick Douglas
Northwest Ordiance
40. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
Civil War
direct representation
commercial
significant
41. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
James Madison
End of the American Revolution
antifederalist
42. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Tenth Amedment
free enterprise
technological advances
consumer demand
43. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
censorship
infectious disease
Bill of Rights
landlocked
44. Is a cruel and unjust government
tyranny
Tea Act
draft
Mayflower Compact
45. 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
population growth
Federalist Papers
devastated
separation of powers
46. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
free enterprise
Abraham Lincoln
tariff
currency
47. When a public official (a president or Supreme Court Justice) is brought to trail for crimes committed in office
command economy
amend
Interchangeable Parts
Impeach
48. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
Fourteenth Amendment
abolition
Judicial Review
Mexican Cession
49. To change
treason
amend
textile
Thirteenth Amendment
50. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
separation of powers
gross domestic product
standard of living
Treaty of Paris of 1763
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