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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. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
Steamboat
James Monroe
popular culture 'pop culture'
raw materials
2. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
abolition
Bill of Rights
infectious disease
state's rights
3. An agreement singed in 1620 b the Pilgrims in Playmouth - to consult each other baout laws for the colony and a promise to work together to make it succeed. Postive step towards self - rule.
Mayflower Compact
first amendment
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Battle of Gettysburg
4. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
Fifteenth Amendment
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
accusations
Battle of Gettysburg
5. The state of acting according to law; lawful
nullify
significant
civil disobedience
legitmacy
6. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
urban
Abraham Lincoln
secede
ratify
7. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
federalism
significant
Farewell Address
free enterprise
8. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
diplomatic relations
standard of living
militia
life expectancy
9. 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
cottage industry
Civil War
amendment
Marbury vs. Madison
10. 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
Tea Act
standard of living
Ulysses S grant
Federalist Papers
11. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
livstock
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Ulysses S grant
12. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
Navigation Acts
Democracy
direct representation
The Constitution of the United States
13. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Gibbons vs. Ogden
literacy rate
population growth
Judicial Review
14. 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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15. A formal expression of opinion or intention made - usually after voting by a formal organization - a legislature - a club or another group
literacy rate
resolution
civil disobedience
state's rights
16. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
James Monroe
Northwest Ordiance
efficiency
Mayflower Compact
17. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
President Thomas Jefferson
Thirteenth Amendment
acquire
John C. Calhoun
18. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
Ulysses S grant
first amendment
famine
free enterprise economy
19. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
turmoil
life expectancy
Seperation of Powers
autocracy
20. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
federalist
accusations
The Great Compromise
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
21. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
foreign policy
Civil War
possessions
William Lloyd Garrison
22. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
Proclamation of 1763
James Monroe
Reaper
command economy
23. 'Father of the Constitution'
James Madison
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
famine
technological advances
24. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
Federalist Papers
Frederick Douglas
grievance
magna carta
25. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
The first shots of the American Revolution
federal
Mexican Cession
Northwest Ordiance
26. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
King George III
export
life expectancy
theocracy
27. To be compeletly destroyed
federal
Bill of Rights
Thirteenth Amendment
devastated
28. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
civil disobedience
relevant
Northwest Ordiance
standard of living
29. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
Mexican Cession
commercial
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
amend
30. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
Democracy
Mayflower Compact
commercial
31. 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
Andrew Jackson
Civil War
government bureaucracy
Abraham Lincoln
32. 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)
secede
consumer demand
John C. Calhoun
first amendment
33. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
state's rights
direct representation
possessions
Common Sense
34. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
free enterprise economy
legitmacy
nullify
James Madison
35. 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
livstock
federal
Alexander Hamilton
benjamin franklin
36. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
democratic republic
Cotton Gin
population growth
Steamboat
37. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields - Cyrus Mccormick
Tenth Amedment
Reaper
Judicial Review
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
38. Widespread hunger within a given region
Steamboat
famine
harsh
population density
39. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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40. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Impeach
Fifteenth Amendment
The first shots of the American Revolution
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
41. Relationships that exsits between governments
diplomatic relations
diversity
foreign policy
William Lloyd Garrison
42. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
Judicial Review
Bessemer Process
consumer demand
democratic republic
43. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Henry Clay
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
prohibited
Steel Plow
44. Abolished slavery
crossroads
antifederalist
relevant
Thirteenth Amendment
45. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
amend
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Adams
nullification
46. Improtant points in an event
milestones
government bureaucracy
Navigation Acts
William Lloyd Garrison
47. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
per capita income
Fourteenth Amendment
commader
Navigation Acts
48. John Deere
Steel Plow
government bureaucracy
suffrage
Susan B Anothony
49. Series of laws passed by England to regulate the Colonist's trade - so England would make money
Samuel Adams
turmoil
Andrew Jackson
Navigation Acts
50. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
crossroads
third amendment
geographical
milestones