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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. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
First shot of Civil War
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Lincoln
democratic republic
2. Form of government that is run for an by the people - giving people the supreme power
limited government
Susan B Anothony
Democracy
standard of living
3. 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
provisions
sixth amendment
Cotton Gin
Gibbons vs. Ogden
4. Is the first ten amednments of the Constituion and detail the protection of individual liberties
commercial
Bill of Rights
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Patrick Henry
5. A government ruled by a subject to religiouc authority
theocracy
distribution
relevant
infected
6. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
John C. Calhoun
democratic republic
prohibited
First shot of Civil War
7. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
commader
federalist
Impeach
Mexican Cession
8. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
Harriet Tubman
King George III
infected
unalienable right
9. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
The first shots of the American Revolution
consumer demand
Thomas Jefferson
tariff
10. The toal national income divided by the number of people in the nation
popular culture 'pop culture'
per capita income
acquire
Telegraph
11. The british defeat at Yorktown - Virgina by George Washingtown's troops singaled the end of the american revolution. accepted the surrrender of the main british army under Cronwallis
raw materials
federalism
End of the American Revolution
turmoil
12. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
gross domestic product
famine
Common Sense
militia
13. Inventor - stateman - diplomat - signer of the declaration of independence and delegate to constituatl convention.
population growth
provisions
benjamin franklin
diversity
14. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
Interchangeable Parts
federalism
geographical
Cotton Gin
15. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
Northwest Ordiance
federalism
adjacent
export
16. 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.
James Madison
tyranny
nullify
Mayflower Compact
17. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
Patrick Henry
significant
militia
treason
18. 'Father of the Constitution'
Jefferson Davis
secede
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
19. The state of acting according to law; lawful
acquire
Harriet Tubman
legitmacy
Ulysses S grant
20. 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
federalist
Marbury vs. Madison
technological advances
distribution
21. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
federalist
James Monroe
population growth
finalcial resources
22. States that powers not gien to the federal government belong to the states
Tenth Amedment
Judicial Review
federalist
currency
23. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
Mexican Cession
tariff
Fourteenth Amendment
Conord Massachusetts
24. 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
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
possessions
tariff
25. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
antifederalist
direct representation
unalienable right
provisions
26. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
birthrate
Steel Plow
population growth
amendment
27. Massachusetts Congressman and senator who spoke for the Norhta nd the preservation of the Union
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Daniel Webster
Seperation of Powers
tariff
28. General of the confederate army
famine
Federalist Papers
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Robert E. Lee
29. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
The Declaration of Independence
autocracy
Bill of Rights
Mexican Cession
30. 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
civil disobedience
Bessemer Process
command economy
31. 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';
primary sources
The Constitution of the United States
prohibited
second amendment
32. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
separation of powers
unalienable right
urban
grievance
33. Purchased the Louisana Territory from Fracne in 1803. The untied States paid 15 million and it double the size of the U.S.
censorship
President Thomas Jefferson
finalcial resources
efficiency
34. 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.'
tyranny
prohibited
livstock
Patrick Henry
35. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
acquire
Daniel Webster
Fourteenth Amendment
Battle of Saratoga
36. Gernal of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the north
democratic republic
Ulysses S grant
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
Bessemer Process
37. To obtain or receive
John C. Calhoun
significant
acquire
amend
38. To change
technological advances
Judicial Review
amend
Conord Massachusetts
39. 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
The Declaration of Independence
command economy
efficiency
Frederick Douglas
40. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Emancipation Proclamations
Gibbons vs. Ogden
suffrage
treason
41. Deleting parts of publication or correspondence or thertrical performances deemed harmful to an individual or party
James Monroe
censorship
benjamin franklin
The Great Compromise
42. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
End of the American Revolution
turmoil
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Civil War
43. Small town in Virgina where Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War
Appomattox Curt House
third amendment
unalienable right
route
44. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
gross domestic product
textile
cottage industry
Treaty of Paris of 1763
45. Things that you own
Samuel Adams
infectious disease
possessions
second amendment
46. Improtant points in an event
milestones
Proclamation of 1763
benjamin franklin
acquire
47. The measruemnt of the percent of people in a given state or country who can read a write
Abraham Lincoln
literacy rate
harsh
infectious disease
48. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
James Madison
popular soverignty
confined
technological advances
49. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
Fourteenth Amendment
command economy
confined
commader
50. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
Navigation Acts
technological advances
abolition
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address