Your activity for today: Please use your iPad or previous notes from your journal to answer the following questions in your notes... These notes will be a good study guide for the Final Assessment on Tuesday. You may work quietly with a partner or by yourself.
- Name the three branches of government and describe how each branch can check the others (Checks and Balance)
- What is a mission and why did Spain build them throughout Texas?
- Why were most early cities in Texas built around rivers? Is that similar to big cities today?
- Define the word Republicanism
- Define Popular Sovereignty
- What were some reasons that caused the annexation of southern states before the Civil War?
- What are states' rights, and how did they contribute to the outbreak of the Civil War?
- What is Manifest Destiny? What President was its greatest supporter?
- Describe Freedom of Religion?
- Why were railroads to important to Texas and what years did they have the most rapid growth?
- Describe the Constitution's Separation of Powers
- What happened to the population of Texas after the Civil War?
- Explain why cattle drives were used during the mid to late 1800's
- Compare and Contrast President Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
- Who fought in the US-Mexican War (Mexican-American War) and what was the conclusion?