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TAKS 10th Grade Social Studies
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
significant
technological advances
The Great Compromise
Seperation of Powers
2. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
labor force
gross domestic product
Harriet Tubman
foreign policy
3. A point at which an important decision must be made
crossroads
King George III
economic status
Steamboat
4. The coniditon of finances of a state or individual
subsistence economy
cultivation
economic status
amend
5. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
Farewell Address
King George III
Gibbons vs. Ogden
raw materials
6. The Supreme Court decision that said saves were property and not citizens
labor force
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
command economy
gross domestic product
7. To change
Steel Plow
amend
literacy rate
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
8. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
Daniel Webster
turmoil
landlocked
third amendment
9. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
Jamestown
commader
benjamin franklin
Northwest Ordiance
10. A term for cows - horses - and other cattle
milestones
accusations
Mayflower Compact
livstock
11. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and consituent political unites (states)
democratic republic
rural
federalism
Marbury vs. Madison
12. Those advances in science or medicine that adaacnes the knowledge of a state or individual
Marbury vs. Madison
commader
technological advances
infectious disease
13. The amount of captial or money available to a person or a state
checks and balances
finalcial resources
Common Sense
cultivation
14. 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
limited government
William Lloyd Garrison
geographical
15. Moving from one place to antoher
migration
Alexander Hamilton
turmoil
commader
16. Abolished slavery
sixth amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Samuel Adams
prospertiy
17. Samuel Morse
urban
primary sources
free enterprise
Telegraph
18. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
Civil War
Fourteenth Amendment
cultivation
significant
19. To contaminate or corup
infected
popular soverignty
Alexander Hamilton
prohibited
20. Next to or beside
raw materials
James Madison
Gibbons vs. Ogden
adjacent
21. A type of government in which its functions and powers are prescribed - limited - and restricted by law
Thirteenth Amendment
landlocked
limited government
significant
22. The taking of supplies - forces - money - etc. - from a given soruce - also the act of mkaing military service mandatory for certain persons
popular soverignty
abolition
Fifteenth Amendment
draft
23. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
Navigation Acts
foreign policy
government bureaucracy
free enterprise economy
24. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
literacy rate
harsh
state's rights
Fifteenth Amendment
25. Cultural patterns that are widespread within a popualtion *style of clothes and hair ect
26. 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
Gibbons vs. Ogden
tyranny
legitmacy
adjacent
27. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
Tenth Amedment
migration
civil disobedience
abolition
28. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Mexican Cession
sixth amendment
militia
finalcial resources
29. Living in a country
secondary sources
raw materials
James Monroe
rural
30. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
confined
theocracy
Jamestown
Robert E. Lee
31. Claims agaisnt a person or a state usually negitive
End of the American Revolution
popular soverignty
confined
accusations
32. Objects used to obtain goods and services - usually coins or bills
Tea Act
tyranny
currency
nullification
33. Guarantees citizenship and righst to all poeple born or antrualized in the US
John C. Calhoun
Battle of Saratoga
Fourteenth Amendment
King George III
34. Administration charcterized by exessive red tape (steps to you have to go throuh to get a destired result) and rountine
free enterprise
harsh
government bureaucracy
rural
35. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
Emancipation Proclamations
Henry Clay
rural
The first shots of the American Revolution
36. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Battle of Gettysburg
Tea Act
third amendment
acquire
37. Is a tax on goods brought into a country
democratic republic
secondary sources
tariff
Proclamation of 1763
38. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers - Eli whitney
resolution
theocracy
Navigation Acts
Cotton Gin
39. Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convice colonists that it was time to become independent from Britian
Harriet Tubman
Conord Massachusetts
Common Sense
commercial
40. Is a cruel and unjust government
Bessemer Process
End of the American Revolution
tyranny
Judicial Review
41. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Mexican Cession
free enterprise economy
population boom
Jamestown
42. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
Reaper
federal
popular culture 'pop culture'
autocracy
43. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
Thirteenth Amendment
The Great Compromise
popular culture 'pop culture'
militia
44. Author of the Monroe Doctrine - which shut down the western hemispher to european exansion or interference
James Monroe
tariff
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
birthrate
45. Was the first site of the first battle of the Amercian Revolution
James Madison
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Conord Massachusetts
Navigation Acts
46. Created two houses of Congress. One based on population - and ther other gave equal represnetation of each state
cottage industry
command economy
The Great Compromise
adjacent
47. South carolina congressman and senator who spoke for the south before and during the Civil War
John C. Calhoun
economic status
secede
Daniel Webster
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
Northwest Ordiance
Interchangeable Parts
Jefferson Davis
legitmacy
49. Widespread hunger within a given region
Tenth Amedment
commercial
famine
milestones
50. A disease caused by a mirooorganism or other agent such as a bacterium - fungus - or virus - that enters the body of an organism
rural
life expectancy
infectious disease
subsistence economy