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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. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
Alexander Hamilton
William Lloyd Garrison
Interchangeable Parts
standard of living
2. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
Fifteenth Amendment
efficiency
population density
command economy
3. The 1803 Court decision that gave the Supreme Court the right to determine whether a law violates the Constituion it set up the principle of Judical Review
Marbury vs. Madison
possessions
treason
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
4. 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
censorship
militia
population boom
Alexander Hamilton
5. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Battle of Gettysburg
migration
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
raw materials
6. Important; of consequence
Proclamation of 1763
subsistence economy
significant
popular culture 'pop culture'
7. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
The Constitution of the United States
Jamestown
The Declaration of Independence
ninth amendment
8. Original records of an event - they incldue eyewitness reports created at the time of an event speeches - and letters by people involved in the event - photographs and artifacts
popular culture 'pop culture'
Appomattox Curt House
primary sources
Proclamation of 1763
9. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
Mexican Cession
distribution
efficiency
Henry Clay
10. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
Mexican Cession
resolution
End of the American Revolution
legitmacy
11. To change
federalist
amend
distribution
geographical
12. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Tenth Amedment
Samuel Adams
censorship
Proclamation of 1763
13. Eli Whitney
Telegraph
Interchangeable Parts
famine
The Constitution of the United States
14. Not allowed
infectious disease
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
prohibited
milestones
15. Important to a certain event or topic
significant
federalism
urban
President Thomas Jefferson
16. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
The Declaration of Independence
distribution
subsistence economy
sixth amendment
17. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
censorship
benjamin franklin
Battle of Saratoga
magna carta
18. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Democracy
William Lloyd Garrison
diplomatic relations
19. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
legitmacy
government bureaucracy
limited government
secede
20. To obtain or receive
famine
Steamboat
acquire
absolute monarch
21. 'Father of the Constitution'
James Madison
The Great Compromise
birthrate
civil disobedience
22. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
literacy rate
popular soverignty
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
23. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
finalcial resources
checks and balances
Bessemer Process
diversity
24. Samuel Morse
Appomattox Curt House
state's rights
Telegraph
unalienable right
25. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
diplomatic relations
prohibited
Steamboat
life expectancy
26. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
treason
Emancipation Proclamations
Gibbons vs. Ogden
birthrate
27. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
ratify
cultivation
tyranny
Henry Clay
28. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
Fifteenth Amendment
geographical
amend
Fourteenth Amendment
29. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
Conord Massachusetts
benjamin franklin
Susan B Anothony
geographical
30. Resprenting a wide range of things like ethnicites - genders and ideals
prohibited
ratify
primary sources
diversity
31. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
Daniel Webster
King George III
federalism
John C. Calhoun
32. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
grievance
devastated
Cotton Gin
33. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
cottage industry
infectious disease
Cotton Gin
mercantilism
34. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
Frederick Douglas
separation of powers
economic status
theocracy
35. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
Abraham Lincoln
milestones
urban
infectious disease
36. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
James Monroe
life expectancy
acquire
literacy rate
37. Living in a city
urban
magna carta
raw materials
resolution
38. Led to the Boston Tea Party
tariff
Tea Act
Steel Plow
accusations
39. The right to vote
suffrage
standard of living
Gibbons vs. Ogden
benjamin franklin
40. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Proclamation of 1763
cottage industry
significant
turmoil
41. 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';
third amendment
government bureaucracy
The Constitution of the United States
possessions
42. 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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43. Short speech given by Abrahman Lincoln to dedicate a cemetry for soliders who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is considered a profound statement of American ideals. Four score and seven years ago - our fathers....and that governemtn of the peopl
Gettysburg Adress
command economy
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
commader
44. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
Tea Act
primary sources
landlocked
censorship
45. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Bessemer Process
confined
provisions
per capita income
46. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
The Great Compromise
population boom
unalienable right
47. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
tariff
Ulysses S grant
Battle of Saratoga
The Great Compromise
48. Living in a country
prohibited
rural
commader
market economy
49. General of the confederate army
Daniel Webster
theocracy
Robert E. Lee
Cotton Gin
50. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
The Constitution of the United States
export
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Daniel Webster