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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. Later writings and interpretations of historians and writers. often secondary sources like textbooks and articles provided summaries of information found in primary sources
Thirteenth Amendment
diversity
secondary sources
standard of living
2. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
nullification
Telegraph
population boom
labor force
3. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
population boom
Henry Clay
Bessemer Process
consumer demand
4. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Common Sense
Cotton Gin
tariff
federalism
5. Not allowed
landlocked
prohibited
Reaper
Frederick Douglas
6. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
diversity
Gibbons vs. Ogden
amendment
command economy
7. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
Proclamation of 1763
popular soverignty
legitmacy
possessions
8. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
civil disobedience
benjamin franklin
Susan B Anothony
primary sources
9. 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.
relevant
Mayflower Compact
Appomattox Curt House
possessions
10. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
consumer demand
diversity
commader
popular soverignty
11. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
The Declaration of Independence
population growth
consumer demand
tariff
12. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
birthrate
Treaty of Paris of 1763
technological advances
popular soverignty
13. 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';
direct representation
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States
14. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
ninth amendment
popular soverignty
raw materials
turmoil
15. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
autocracy
Tea Act
Interchangeable Parts
government bureaucracy
16. 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)
tariff
suffrage
Tea Act
unalienable right
17. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
limited government
export
Northwest Ordiance
federalist
18. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
Appomattox Curt House
life expectancy
Tea Act
Seperation of Powers
19. 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
provisions
commercial
labor force
20. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
significant
prospertiy
second amendment
Battle of Gettysburg
21. Is a cruel and unjust government
tyranny
turmoil
rural
Jefferson Davis
22. 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
ninth amendment
Marbury vs. Madison
currency
Andrew Jackson
23. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
Thirteenth Amendment
tariff
Jamestown
24. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
antifederalist
commercial
harsh
theocracy
25. War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
Battle of Saratoga
tariff
Civil War
Proclamation of 1763
26. John Deere
Democracy
Cotton Gin
foreign policy
Steel Plow
27. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
federalism
literacy rate
Marbury vs. Madison
standard of living
28. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
democratic republic
Proclamation of 1763
First shot of Civil War
tyranny
29. Economic theory that a country's strength is measured by the amount of gold it has that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the the Mother Country
mercantilism
accusations
King George III
benjamin franklin
30. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Samuel Adams
gross domestic product
Appomattox Curt House
31. 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)
theocracy
consumer demand
significant
livstock
32. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
geographical
James Monroe
Telegraph
ratify
33. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
The Great Compromise
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
economic status
John C. Calhoun
34. Widespread hunger within a given region
Steel Plow
famine
Federalist Papers
Thomas Jefferson
35. The turing point of the Civil War for the North - Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again
market economy
Battle of Gettysburg
textile
Abraham Lincoln
36. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
President Thomas Jefferson
The first shots of the American Revolution
absolute monarch
livstock
37. 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
draft
Federalist Papers
labor force
literacy rate
38. 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
Fourteenth Amendment
grievance
per capita income
Alexander Hamilton
39. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
Fourteenth Amendment
antifederalist
tyranny
free enterprise
40. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
democratic republic
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Harriet Tubman
41. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Jamestown
labor force
per capita income
checks and balances
42. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
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43. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
commader
textile
infectious disease
Frederick Douglas
44. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
President Thomas Jefferson
Fifteenth Amendment
federalism
censorship
45. Improtant points in an event
commercial
milestones
relevant
diplomatic relations
46. A policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations
government bureaucracy
Impeach
amendment
foreign policy
47. The constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to counsel - the right to confront witnesses - and the right to a speedy and public trial.
migration
sixth amendment
population growth
Proclamation of 1763
48. Established a system of setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the UNion. its consitution had to provide for a representative governemnt and ithad to prohibit slavery
milestones
per capita income
Northwest Ordiance
amend
49. General of the confederate army
prospertiy
Robert E. Lee
Tenth Amedment
devastated
50. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Emancipation Proclamations
Steamboat
state's rights
livstock