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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. Guarantees the right to vot to all citizens regaurdless of race.
resolution
Fifteenth Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
2. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
militia
migration
federalism
Bessemer Process
3. The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a ntaion during a specificed period
per capita income
migration
currency
gross domestic product
4. Stressed three dnagers facing the nation. The first related to the rise of polictical parties. Written by George Washington
technological advances
nullify
Farewell Address
life expectancy
5. Guarantees the right of states to organize millias or armies and the right of indivudlas to bear arms
provisions
technological advances
second amendment
subsistence economy
6. Living in a country
urban
Telegraph
Emancipation Proclamations
rural
7. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant - crop - etc.) by labor and attention
Emancipation Proclamations
Thomas Jefferson
cultivation
prospertiy
8. Is the refusal to obey a government laws or law as a means of passive resistance becasue of one's moral convicition of belief
gross domestic product
civil disobedience
President Thomas Jefferson
Tea Act
9. Wre people who opposed to the constituion preferring more power to be given to the state governments than to the national government
antifederalist
Ulysses S grant
free enterprise
commercial
10. Robert Fulton
Steel Plow
Steamboat
population boom
suffrage
11. Important to a certain event or topic
significant
End of the American Revolution
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
turmoil
12. Fired at Lexington Massachusetts in April 1775
Jamestown
suffrage
urban
The first shots of the American Revolution
13. Original records of an event - they incldue eyewitness reports created at the time of an event speeches - and letters by people involved in the event - photographs and artifacts
significant
primary sources
prospertiy
Fourteenth Amendment
14. Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts
Marbury vs. Madison
infectious disease
third amendment
15. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
John C. Calhoun
harsh
population growth
life expectancy
16. Wrote the declaration of indpendence - became the 3rd presidnet of the US and purchased the Louisana territory
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
technological advances
population density
17. The amount of wokers available to perform the tasks necessary for a society to function
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
raw materials
technological advances
labor force
18. 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
Bill of Rights
legitmacy
Gibbons vs. Ogden
gross domestic product
19. The number of pople living per unti of an area (per square mile)
commercial
mercantilism
population density
Jefferson Davis
20. A point at which an important decision must be made
currency
possessions
Bill of Rights
crossroads
21. Relationships that exsits between governments
prospertiy
diplomatic relations
sixth amendment
Farewell Address
22. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
provisions
infected
The first shots of the American Revolution
popular soverignty
23. Moving from one place to antoher
provisions
migration
popular soverignty
limited government
24. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
The first shots of the American Revolution
Fifteenth Amendment
Bill of Rights
federalist
25. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
raw materials
landlocked
federal
Robert E. Lee
26. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
Steel Plow
milestones
first amendment
raw materials
27. A state of great comotion - confusion - of disturbance
infected
William Lloyd Garrison
urban
turmoil
28. Citizens individually choose their representatives in a legislature
ratify
Conord Massachusetts
Harriet Tubman
direct representation
29. Mexico sold all of California and New mexico to the US
Reaper
tariff
amend
Mexican Cession
30. Samuel Morse
command economy
Susan B Anothony
Telegraph
crossroads
31. A system in which each branch of government has its own powers
Fourteenth Amendment
amend
Seperation of Powers
birthrate
32. Having to do with business
textile
Proclamation of 1763
Mayflower Compact
commercial
33. Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territoy or state
population growth
distribution
infectious disease
End of the American Revolution
34. Important; of consequence
primary sources
significant
state's rights
Alexander Hamilton
35. A person who exercises authority; cheif officer; leader
Appomattox Curt House
significant
commader
crossroads
36. Is a cruel and unjust government
Marbury vs. Madison
foreign policy
The Great Compromise
tyranny
37. Ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect
direct representation
Steel Plow
theocracy
harsh
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
amendment
Alexander Hamilton
export
significant
39. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
Appomattox Curt House
William Lloyd Garrison
The first shots of the American Revolution
cottage industry
40. 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
popular soverignty
popular culture 'pop culture'
route
41. The first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607
state's rights
export
Jamestown
Battle of Saratoga
42. To deprive (something) of value or effectiveness to make void
nullify
Seperation of Powers
Fifteenth Amendment
government bureaucracy
43. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
separation of powers
relevant
free enterprise economy
magna carta
44. 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
Thomas Jefferson
Federalist Papers
Samuel Adams
life expectancy
45. 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.
ninth amendment
sixth amendment
distribution
Alexander Hamilton
46. Means to improve by vote
theocracy
James Madison
ratify
Bill of Rights
47. Ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America; ended the American Revolution and foreced Britian to recginze the United States as an idependent Nations
diplomatic relations
Harriet Tubman
Treaty of Paris of 1763
direct representation
48. 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
sixth amendment
direct representation
Gettysburg Adress
foreign policy
49. Not allowed
life expectancy
consumer demand
prohibited
confined
50. John Deere
population density
Steel Plow
William Lloyd Garrison
secondary sources