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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. The measure of ability to accomplish a job with a minimum exenditure of time and effort
efficiency
Susan B Anothony
Federalist Papers
Tenth Amedment
2. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
nullification
censorship
popular culture 'pop culture'
provisions
3. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
third amendment
Jefferson Davis
theocracy
Steamboat
4. The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal
nullification
nullify
Jamestown
Impeach
5. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
sixth amendment
Emancipation Proclamations
Democracy
Jamestown
6. 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
turmoil
Alexander Hamilton
Marbury vs. Madison
The Constitution of the United States
7. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
Telegraph
John C. Calhoun
accusations
commercial
8. Was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Undergroud Railroad and helped over 300 salves to freedom in the North
Harriet Tubman
censorship
efficiency
confined
9. An act of the Second Continental Congress - adopted on July 4 - 1776 - which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were 'Free and Independent States' and that 'all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain - is a
Gibbons vs. Ogden
devastated
The Declaration of Independence
separation of powers
10. An economy that is planned and controled by a central administration as in the former soviet Union
The first shots of the American Revolution
Jamestown
command economy
possessions
11. A succesful - floursihing or thriving condition
nullification
efficiency
prospertiy
economic status
12. Governmnet in which one perosn has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
abolition
autocracy
Appomattox Curt House
Treaty of Paris of 1763
13. Next to or beside
adjacent
gross domestic product
diversity
ratify
14. Important; of consequence
suffrage
Patrick Henry
significant
devastated
15. Is the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passd by COngress and determine wheaterh they are consitutial or not
President Thomas Jefferson
subsistence economy
free enterprise
Judicial Review
16. Passionate patriot who became fomous for his fiery speeches in favor of American Independence his most famous quote included the worlds 'give me liberty or give me Death.'
Patrick Henry
export
Abraham Lincoln
censorship
17. A economy where enough is grown hunted and crafted to provide for the basic needs of the people
subsistence economy
landlocked
cultivation
antifederalist
18. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
John C. Calhoun
free enterprise
infectious disease
first amendment
19. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
finalcial resources
Emancipation Proclamations
cottage industry
20. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
harsh
militia
Tenth Amedment
infectious disease
21. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
secondary sources
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thomas Jefferson
nullify
22. Powerfuly Knetucky congressmn senator who propoosed the American system and the Compromise of 1850
distribution
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Clay
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
23. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
cultivation
economic status
harsh
labor force
24. An economy that operates by voluntary echange in a free market and is not planned or contorlled by a central aauthority; a capitalisc economy
market economy
cultivation
Interchangeable Parts
ninth amendment
25. Limits imposed on all branches of a government by vestin in each branch the right to amen or void the acts of another
resolution
acquire
checks and balances
Judicial Review
26. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
economic status
first amendment
per capita income
censorship
27. A grade or level of subistence and comfort in everday life enjoyed by a community - class - or individual
prohibited
standard of living
King George III
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
28. The amount of births ina country druing a specific period
Democracy
Thomas Jefferson
birthrate
checks and balances
29. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
Democracy
diversity
export
finalcial resources
30. Former slave who became the best know black abolitionsit in the country 'north star'
Frederick Douglas
milestones
adjacent
Marbury vs. Madison
31. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
absolute monarch
Telegraph
democratic republic
Fifteenth Amendment
32. 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
Robert E. Lee
Gettysburg Adress
infected
currency
33. Published the Liberator; abolished Slavery
Frederick Douglas
William Lloyd Garrison
theocracy
crossroads
34. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
magna carta
economic status
sixth amendment
foreign policy
35. Member of the sons of liberty who started the committee of correspondcne to stir public support for american indepdnece
Conord Massachusetts
significant
Samuel Adams
acquire
36. Eli Whitney
relevant
Common Sense
censorship
Interchangeable Parts
37. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
First shot of Civil War
commader
raw materials
cottage industry
38. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
Telegraph
infectious disease
migration
finalcial resources
39. 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
primary sources
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Andrew Jackson
adjacent
40. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
Cotton Gin
distribution
first amendment
Gettysburg Adress
41. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
route
raw materials
Battle of Gettysburg
Frederick Douglas
42. When power is given to the people of the state to choose their governmnet
popular soverignty
landlocked
route
Marbury vs. Madison
43. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
free enterprise economy
prospertiy
second amendment
grievance
44. To withdraw or pull away
secede
route
limited government
The first shots of the American Revolution
45. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
devastated
Fifteenth Amendment
End of the American Revolution
Mayflower Compact
46. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
population density
Daniel Webster
textile
tariff
47. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
benjamin franklin
Bessemer Process
foreign policy
famine
48. 'Father of the Constitution'
finalcial resources
significant
route
James Madison
49. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
checks and balances
Jamestown
Andrew Jackson
diplomatic relations
50. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
urban
confined
abolition
legitmacy