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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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
Marbury vs. Madison
censorship
primary sources
separation of powers
2. To be compeletly destroyed
devastated
Battle of Saratoga
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
commercial
3. Congres shall make no law restricing freddom of speech - religion - press assembly and petition
primary sources
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
labor force
first amendment
4. King of England during the American Revolution - taxed the colines refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies
King George III
tariff
crossroads
The Constitution of the United States
5. 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
free enterprise
Marbury vs. Madison
checks and balances
suffrage
6. Next to or beside
route
adjacent
popular culture 'pop culture'
Battle of Saratoga
7. 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
Emancipation Proclamations
Conord Massachusetts
labor force
Alexander Hamilton
8. The offense of acting to overthrow one's government
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
population growth
treason
magna carta
9. A sudden increase in the birthrate of an area or state
Andrew Jackson
Gibbons vs. Ogden
population boom
tariff
10. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which was about the horrors of slaery
Thomas Jefferson
Marbury vs. Madison
abolition
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
11. Samuel Morse
geographical
Telegraph
Lincoln's First inaugrual Address
Bill of Rights
12. An alteration of a addiation to a motion - bill - constution
Steel Plow
amendment
per capita income
efficiency
13. Living in a country
King George III
economic status
rural
abolition
14. 'Father of the Constitution'
James Madison
livstock
adjacent
Proclamation of 1763
15. Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1 - 1863 seeting all slaves in the Confederate states Free
urban
legitmacy
Emancipation Proclamations
significant
16. Sharing the power between the states and the national government
Reaper
suffrage
federalism
commercial
17. 16th president of the USA who sucessfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days later after the Civil war ended
raw materials
direct representation
Abraham Lincoln
sixth amendment
18. 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.
Ulysses S grant
William Lloyd Garrison
sixth amendment
Harrlet Beecher Stowe
19. Abolished slavery
Tea Act
Thirteenth Amendment
harsh
cultivation
20. Forbidden colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Moutians
benjamin franklin
democratic republic
Bill of Rights
Proclamation of 1763
21. Supporst of the constiution who favored a strong national government
life expectancy
federalist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
primary sources
22. Usually good or services sent out of one's country or are to be consumed by antoher
Patrick Henry
legitmacy
diplomatic relations
export
23. Forbids the gov. to order private citizens to allow soldier to live in their homes
Thomas Jefferson
third amendment
second amendment
birthrate
24. Led to the Boston Tea Party
Tea Act
Bill of Rights
Judicial Review
Treaty of Paris of 1763
25. Relationships that exsits between governments
raw materials
diplomatic relations
market economy
William Lloyd Garrison
26. The delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients
popular culture 'pop culture'
distribution
birthrate
subsistence economy
27. The number of years that an individual is exprected to live as deteremined by statistics
life expectancy
Mayflower Compact
Bill of Rights
foreign policy
28. Form of government embodying deomcratic principles and hwere a monarch is not the head of state
raw materials
Federalist Papers
secondary sources
democratic republic
29. An ecomny where buisness compete for business in an open market - with little governmnet interfernce
Seperation of Powers
civil disobedience
free enterprise economy
First shot of Civil War
30. Compliantes againsts a person or state
migration
significant
grievance
Reaper
31. By the north in 1863 effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippe River to the Union
second amendment
Capture of Vicksburg - Mississippi
Bessemer Process
commader
32. States that people have rights toher than those mentioned in the Constitution
ninth amendment
possessions
export
crossroads
33. Moving from one place to antoher
Henry Clay
migration
infectious disease
antifederalist
34. The principle or system of vesiting in separte branches the excuitve - legislatvie - and judical powers of a government
absolute monarch
separation of powers
technological advances
prohibited
35. General of the confederate army
Robert E. Lee
nullification
The Declaration of Independence
federal
36. 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
Battle of Saratoga
provisions
Federalist Papers
autocracy
37. Body of citizens enrolled for miliatry service - and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies
milestones
Federalist Papers
militia
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
38. The 'great charter' of Enlgish liberties - forced form King John by the English barons - June 15 - 1215
per capita income
infectious disease
absolute monarch
magna carta
39. Living in a city
Gettysburg Adress
urban
first amendment
subsistence economy
40. Unable to move or with limited space and operate
federal
Proclamation of 1763
famine
confined
41. Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights movement in the US
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
standard of living
First shot of Civil War
grievance
42. Material before being processed or manufactured into a final form (oil - iron)
federalist
raw materials
labor force
Common Sense
43. Pertaining to the geography or natural landforms of a given area - or a location wihin a given area
adjacent
geographical
consumer demand
ratify
44. 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
significant
devastated
free enterprise
45. Was the president of the confederacy during the Civil War
Patrick Henry
Jefferson Davis
Seperation of Powers
Steel Plow
46. To contaminate or corup
infected
raw materials
Mexican Cession
amendment
47. Means to improve by vote
limited government
cottage industry
ratify
Abraham Lincoln
48. Partainingto or of the nature of a union of states under a central govermnet distinct from the indivdual govermnets of the separate staets
ratify
Impeach
federal
gross domestic product
49. The prodcution for sale - of goods at home
cottage industry
Henry Clay
geographical
treason
50. The providing or supplying of something - esp. food or other necessities - in law providing for a specific circumstances or event.
diversity
significant
provisions
secondary sources