WorksheetsSocial Studies STAAR Vocabulary
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
System of settling new lands that remain under the government of their native land.
a)
Colonization
b)
Charter
c)
Mercantilism
d)
Salutary Neglect
2.
To establish or set up.
a)
Taxation
b)
Boycott
c)
Persecution
d)
Founded
3.
A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area.
a)
Taxation
b)
Charter
c)
Era
d)
Tyranny
4.
Having to do with one’s own homeland (U.S.)
a)
Foreign
b)
Domestic
5.
Involving other countries
a)
Foreign
b)
Domestic
6.
A long and distinct period of history with a particular feature or characteristic.
a)
Grievance
b)
Persecution
c)
Enlightenment
d)
Era
7.
Government process of charging a fee on goods, products, people and/or activities.
a)
Salutary Neglect
b)
Mercantilism
c)
Taxation
d)
Tyranny
8.
Complaints
a)
Grievances
b)
Tyranny
c)
Oppression
d)
Persecution
9.
Cruel, oppressive or unjust government; usually at the hands of a dictator or Monarch.
a)
Persecution
b)
Mercantilism
c)
Salutary Neglect
d)
Tyrrany
10.
To refuse to buy something as a form of protest.
a)
Civil Disobedience
b)
Boycott
c)
Emancipation
d)
Ratify
11.
An economic theory that states that the colonies exist to benefit the mother country (Great Britain).
a)
Salutary Neglect
b)
Taxation without representation
c)
Mercantilism
d)
Tyranny
12.
Hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.
a)
Salutary Neglect
b)
Tyranny
c)
Persecution
d)
Suffrage
13.
Idea that the government gets its power from the people.
a)
Federalism
b)
Popular Sovereignty
c)
Limited Government
d)
Individual Rights
14.
Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf.
a)
Monarchy
b)
Direct Democracy
c)
Representative Democracy
d)
Totalitarian
15.
A movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism.
a)
Awakening
b)
Enlightenment
c)
Emancipation
d)
Sovereignty
16.
To free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate.
a)
Emancipation
b)
Abolish
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Industrialization
17.
The 19th-century belief that the US was a chosen land that had been allotted the entire North American continent by God.
a)
Mercantilism
b)
Manifest Destiny
c)
Transcendentalism
d)
Enlightenment
18.
The period (1865-1877) during which the states that had seceded to the Confederacy were controlled by the federal government before being readmitted to the Union.
a)
Reconstruction Era
b)
Civil War Era
c)
Revolutionary Era
d)
Colonial Era
19.
Geographic features found in nature such as mountains, lakes, etc.
a)
Human geography (features)
b)
Urban
c)
Rural
d)
Physical Geography (features)
20.
Features of a place made by humans such as roads, canals, buildings.
a)
Urban
b)
Rural
c)
Physical Geography (features)
d)
Human Geography (features)
21.
The human and physical characteristics of a place.
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Emancipation
c)
Geographic Factors
d)
Urban Geography
22.
Relating to the city.
a)
Urban
b)
Rural
23.
Relating to the countryside.
a)
Urban
b)
Rural
24.
The socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.
a)
Culture
b)
Geography
c)
Economy
d)
Enlightenment
25.
An official change to a law or document of government.
a)
Ratify
b)
Amendment
c)
Constitution
d)
Act
26.
To formally approve something.
a)
Amendment
b)
Act
c)
Tariff
d)
Ratify
27.
Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
a)
Veto
b)
Ratify
c)
Approve
d)
Amendment
28.
A law.
a)
Act
b)
Amendment
c)
Tariff
d)
Ratify
29.
To declare something to be without power or effect; to disregard the power of something as in the Nullification Crisis.
a)
Suffrage
b)
Embargo
c)
Treaty
d)
Nullify
30.
Actions or laws that violate the Constitution.
a)
Act
b)
Treaty
c)
Unconstitutional
d)
Unalienable
31.
Rights that cannot be taken away or given up.
a)
Unconstitutional
b)
Unalienable
c)
Nationalism
d)
Sectionalism
32.
The right to vote.
a)
Amendment
b)
Suffrage
c)
Treaty
d)
Embargo
33.
A country's independent authority and the right to govern itself.
a)
Federalism
b)
Republicanism
c)
Individualism
d)
Sovereignty
34.
A country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen.
a)
Monarchy
b)
Republic
c)
Heiarchy
d)
Tyranny
35.
The process of creating commercial industry including heavy industry such as steel.
a)
Urbanization
b)
Agriculture
c)
Industrialization
d)
Confederation
36.
Goods sold to buyers outside of the country.
a)
Import
b)
Export
37.
Goods bought from sellers in other countries.
a)
Import
b)
Export
38.
A high tax on imported goods established to protect a particular industry
a)
Tariff (duty)
b)
Import
c)
Export
d)
Industry
39.
A formal agreement between the governments of two or more countries; usually brings an end to a war.
a)
Act
b)
Treaty
c)
Embargo
d)
Impressment
40.
British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service.
a)
Embargo
b)
Slavery
c)
Impressment
d)
Free-enterprise
41.
To impose a tax.
a)
Levy
b)
Duty
c)
Embargo
d)
Impressment
42.
A person appointed or elected to represent others; a representative.
a)
Delegate
b)
Parliament
c)
Convention
d)
Treaty
43.
The right of states to limit the power of the federal government.
a)
Federal Authority
b)
Democratic-Republicans
c)
Political Parties
d)
States' Rights
44.
The right of the Supreme Court to determine if a law violates the Constitution.
a)
Confederation
b)
Impressment
c)
Judicial Review
d)
States' Rights
45.
A government order preventing trade with another country.
a)
Embargo
b)
Nationalism
c)
Sectionalism
d)
Tariff
46.
The act of making something (a product) from raw materials.
a)
Free-enterprise
b)
Factory system
c)
Manufacture
d)
Sectionalism
47.
System bringing manufacturing steps together in one place to increase efficiency.
a)
Tariff policy
b)
Free-enterprise
c)
Factory system
d)
Impressment
48.
Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it.
a)
Nationalism
b)
Sectionalism
49.
Loyalty to a section or region of a country, instead of to the country as a whole.
a)
Nationalism
b)
Sectionalism
50.
Economic system in which individuals and businesses are allowed to compete for profit with a minimum of government interference.
a)
Protective Tariff
b)
Mercantilism
c)
Commercialism
d)
Free-enterprise
51.
Great Britain’s policy of not strictly enforcing Parliamentary law on the colonists; ended after the French and Indian War.
a)
Mercantilism
b)
Free-enterprise
c)
Impressment
d)
Salutary Neglect
52.
A proposed law.
a)
Bill
b)
Veto
c)
Amendment
d)
Precedent
53.
An example that becomes a rule.
a)
Amendment
b)
Nullification
c)
Impeachment
d)
Precedent
54.
To cancel a law.
a)
Nullify
b)
Impeach
c)
Embargo
d)
Tariff
55.
To leave the Union.
a)
Suffrage
b)
Secede
c)
Nullify
d)
Mercantilism
56.
The practice of giving government jobs to supporters.
a)
Nullification
b)
Impressment
c)
Spoils System
d)
Precedent
57.
Something bought or gained.
a)
Tariff
b)
Cabinet
c)
Doctrine
d)
Acquisition
58.
Someone who moves permanently to another country.
a)
Immigrant
b)
Emigrant
59.
Someone who leaves his or her own country to live elsewhere.
a)
Immigrant
b)
Emigrant
60.
People who are killed, wounded, or missing during a war.
a)
Casualty
b)
Yankee
c)
Rebel
d)
Soldier
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