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Vocabulary 1
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Branches of Government
History Hodge Podge
Bias or Not Bias
100
A district within a country
What is a province?
100
An outlaw
Who is a Renegade?
100
The branch of government that makes the laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
The purpose of this document is to provide a written plan for organizing groups or the government
What is the constitution?
100
NASA Space Center is located in Houston (Bias or Not Bias)
What is Not Bias?
200
A Spanish military outpost or military base
What is a Presidio?
200
Public land you can use
What is an open range?
200
The branch of government that enforces laws
What is the Executive Branch?
200
Federal, State, County, City, and Special Districts are
What are various levels of government in the United States?
200
Hurricane Ike caused so much destruction (Bias or Not Bias)
What is Not Bias?
300
The official document that gives a person the right to own land (proof it was given)
What is the title?
300
To move cattle in large herds to railroad towns, which were connected to the stockyard by rail
What is a drive?
300
The branch of government that interprets laws
What is the Judicial Branch?
300
A major crime in criminal law
What is a felony?
300
Everyone in TX owns a gun and rides a horse. They are all stupid cowboys. (Bias or Not Bias)
What is Bias?
400
The original group of anglo colonists that moved to TX in the mid 1820's
Who are The Old 300?
400
A holding pen for cattle awaiting shipping or slaughter
What is a stockyard?
400
The person who holds the executive position for the Federal Branch of Government
Who is the President?
400
Individual rights, popular sovereignty and limited government are examples
What are prinicples of government that affect individual citizens the most?
400
Houston is a country town. Dallas and San Antonio are bigger and richer. (Bias or Not Bias)
What is Bias?
500
A person who was given land for new settlers
Who is an empresario?
500
Enforced Isolation to prevent the spread of disease or pest
What is a quarantine?
500
The law-making body that represents the legislative branch at the Federal level of government
Who is Congress?
500
This important document has been amended hundreds of timesin just over 130 years
What is the Texas Constitution?
500
Ms. Milstead is the greatest history teacher ever. (Bias or Not Bias)
What is Not Bias? She is the best!!!