TAKS Social Studies Objectives – Grade 10 Test
Sorted by Grade Level TEKS
Grade 8 TEKS*****************************************
Covered in Grades
9 and 10
Objective 1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of issues and events in U.S.
history.
8.1C
8.4B
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8.4C
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8.16C 
Explain the significance of the following dates: 1776, 1787, and 1861–1865.
Explain the roles played by significant individuals during the American Revolution,
including Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.
Explain the issues surrounding the American Revolution, including declaring
independence and the Articles of Confederation.
Identify colonial grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence and explain how
those grievances were addressed in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Objective 2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of geographic influences on
historical issues and events.
8.10B 
Answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns shown on maps, graphs,
and charts.
Objective 3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of economic and social
influences on historical issues and events.
None
Objective 4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of political influences on
historical issues and events.
8.3A
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8.16A 
8.16D 
8.17B 
8.18B 
8.20A 
8.20B 
8.22B 
Explain the reasons for the growth of representative government and institutions during
the colonial period.
Identify the influence of ideas from historic documents including the Magna Carta, the
English Bill of Rights the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers on the
U.S. system of government.
Analyze how the U.S. Constitution reflects the principles of limited government,
republicanism, checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, popular
sovereignty, and individual rights.
Describe the impact of 19th-century amendments including the 13th, 14th, and 15th
amendments on life in the United States.
Describe historical conflicts arising over the issue of states’ rights, including the
Nullification Crisis and the Civil War.
Define and give examples of unalienable rights.
Summarize rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
Describe the importance of free speech and press in a democratic society.
Objective 5: The student will use critical thinking skills to analyze social studies information.
8.30A 
8.30D 
8.30F
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Use primary and secondary sources to acquire information about the United States.
Identify points of view from the historical context surrounding an event and the frame of
reference which influenced the participants.
Identify bias in written and visual material.
Grade 9 TEKS******************************************
Objective 1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of issues and events in U.S.
history.
None
Objective 2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of geographic influences on
historical issues and events.
WG1A
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WG1B
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WG6A
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Analyze the effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes on
events in the past and describe their effects on present conditions, including significant
physical features and environmental conditions that influenced migration patterns in the
past and shaped the distribution of culture groups today (correlates with WH12B).
Trace the spatial diffusion of a phenomenon and describe its effects on regions of
contact such as the spread of bubonic plague, the diffusion and exchange of foods
between the New and Old Worlds, (correlates with WH11B).
Observe patterns in the size and distribution of cities using maps, graphics, and other
information (correlates with WH26C).
Correlates with World History TEKS for this Objective:
WG19A  Evaluate the significance of major technological innovations, including fire, steam
power, diesel machinery, and electricity that have been used to modify the physical
environment.
WG20A  Describe the impact of new technologies.
WG21C  Interpret maps to answer geographic questions, infer geographic relationships, and
analyze geographic change.
Objective 3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of economic and social
influences on historical issues and events.
WG5B
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WG10C 
WG18A 
Analyze political, economic, social, and demographic data to determine the level of
development and standard of living in nations (correlates with WH14C).
Compare the ways people satisfy their basic needs through the production of goods and
services such as subsistence agriculture versus market-oriented agriculture or cottage
industries versus commercial industries (correlates with WH14C).
Describe the impact of general processes such as migration, war, trade, independent
inventions, and diffusion of ideas and motivations on cultural change (correlates with
WH1B).
Objective 4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of political influences on
historical issues and events.
None
Objective 5: The student will use critical thinking skills to analyze social studies information.
WG8B
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WG21C 
Compare ways that humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment
using state, national, and international human activities in variety of cultural and
technological contexts (correlates with WH12B and WH12C).
Interpret maps to answer geographic questions, infer geographic relationships, and
analyze geographic change (correlates with WH11B and WH12C).
Correlates with World History TEKS for this Objective:
WG21A  Use historical, geographic, and statistical information from a variety of sources such as
databases, field interviews, media services, and questionnaires to answer geographic
questions and infer geographic relationships; and
Grade 10 TEKS***************************************
Objective 1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of issues and events in U.S.
history.
None
Objective 2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of geographic influences on
historical issues and events.
WH12C 
WH23A 
Interpret historical maps to identify and explain geographic factors that have influenced
people and events in the past (correlates with WG21C).
Give examples of technological innovations that occurred at different periods in history
and describe the changes produced by these discoveries and innovations (correlates
with WG19A and WG20A).
Correlates with World Geography TEKS for this Objective:
WH11B  Answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns in world history shown on
maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases.
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Analyze the effects of physical and human geographic factors on major events in world
WH12B
history.
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Interpret visuals including graphs, charts, timelines, and maps.
WH26C
Objective 3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of economic and social
influences on historical issues and events.
Correlates with World Geography TEKS for this Objective:
WH1B
 Identify changes that resulted from important turning points in world history such as the
development of farming; the development of cities; the scientific and industrial
revolutions; the political revolutions of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries; and the world
wars of the 20th century.
WH14C  Compare the relationships between and among contemporary countries with differing
economic systems.
Objective 4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of political influences on
historical issues and events.
None
Objective 5: The student will use critical thinking skills to analyze social studies information.
WH25C 
WH26C 
Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect
relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making
generalizations, and drawing inferences and conclusions (correlates with WG21A).
Interpret visuals including graphs, charts, timelines, and maps (correlates with WG21C).
Correlates with World Geography TEKS for this Objective:
WH11B  Answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns in world history shown on
maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases.
WH12B  Analyze the effects of physical and human geographic factors on major events in world
history.
WH12C  Interpret historical maps to identify and explain geographic factors that have influenced
people and events in the past.