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Vocab
Branches of government
Mexican War
Texas
Pop Culture
100
What word means provides money for public schools?
What is permanent school fund.
100
What are the three branches of government?
What is Legislative, Executive and Judical branches.
100
Who was the United States president during the Mexican War?
Who is James Polk.
100
What event made Texan soldiers pick beans out of a jar?
What is the black bean episode.
100
What tv show is shutting down for the season?
What is Two and a Half Men.
200
What word means permission to decide for themselves?
What is popular soverignty.
200
What branch has the authority to veto a law?
What is the Executive branch.
200
Who did President Polk send to Mexico to offer to buy Mexico?
Who is John Slidell
200
Who was the first president of the Republic of Texas?
Who is Sam Houston
200
What team did the Texas Rangers lose to on their opening game?
Who is the Kansas City Royals.
300
What word means the belief that the United States had the right and the duty to expand to the Pacific Ocean?
What is manifest destiny.
300
What branch is seperated into two houses?
What is the Legislative branch.
300
When did Congress declar war on Mexico?
What is May 13, 1846
300
Texas was the _____ state to join the United States?
What is the 28th.
300
Who won best movie at the Oscar's last night?
What is the King's Speech
400
What word means to be forced to leave the country?
What is exiled
400
What branch deals with the court system?
What is the judicial branch.
400
Who did President Polk send on a secret mission to Texas and they reported from behind enemy lines?
Who is Jame Cazneau.
400
What dates was Texas its own republic?
What 1836-1845.
400
Who won best leading actress at the Oscar's last night?
Who is Natalie Portman
500
What word means the authority to prevent the passage of a law?
What is a veto.
500
Who was the first governor of Texas?
Who is James Pinckney Henderson.
500
What two things did the 1848 treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo establish?
What is Mexico recognized Texas as part of the United States and agreed to the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas.
500
In order who were the four presidents of the Republic of Texas?
Who are Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, Sam Houston and Anson Jones.
500
What movie top the box office last weekend?
What is "Gnomeo and Juliet." Weekend gross of $14,213,000