Geography
The largest body of water on Earth
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The leader of the Executive Branch of the US Government
What is the President?
Political
What word has to do with government, politicians, or military?
The most famous battle of the Texas Revolution
What is the Alamo?
The first president of the US
Who is George Washington?
The seven continents of the World
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica
The way we divide the government
What is the 3 branches (Separation of Powers)?
Suffrage
What is the right to vote?
The two countries who explored Texas
What is Spain and France?
The name of the war which earned the US independence
What is the Revolutionary War?
The mountain ranges in North America
What is the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains?
The number of members of the Supreme Court
What is nine members?
Textile
What is a type of fabric or cloth?
The invention that closed off the open range
What is Barbed Wire?
One famous abolitionist from US History
Who is Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Abraham Lincoln, or John Brown?
The location of the earliest settlements
What is Mesopotamia?
The system through which the branches' powers are balances and kept in check
What is Checks and Balances?
Tariff
What is a tax on imports?
The year Texas became a state
What is 1845?
One cause of the Civil War
What is Slavery, Tariffs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Election of Lincoln, Industry vs. Agriculture, or States Rights?
A major desert in Asia
What is the Gobi Desert?
The name of the US Legislature
What is Congress (Senate & House of Representatives)?
Manifest Destiny
The location of an important 1901 Texas discovery, Oil
What is Spindletop?
The government policy that supported American Manufacturing and hurt trade, and led to the Nullification Crisis of 1832
What are protective tariffs?