Texas History Spring Semester Exam

Which branch of the government makes the laws?

• legislative

• executive

• judicial

Which branch of the government functions to carry out laws passed by the legislature?

• legislative

• executive

• judicial

Being added to the U.S.

• revenue

• ratify

• recognition

• annexation

Which branch of the Texas government functions to interpret laws?

• legislative

• executive

• judicial

What grants full citizenship to all individuals born in the United States?

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Sixteenth Amendment

What philosophy meant that the United States was set apart to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific?

• Manifest Destiny

• America's Obligation

• joint occupation

• annexation

Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War

• pardon

• freedman

• black codes

When a government branch can limit the powers of the other branches this is called the principle of ____________________.

• limited government

• federalism

• checks and balances

• popular sovereignty

June 19^th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas

• black codes

• scalawag

• Juneteenth

The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• Unionists

• Reconstruction

• sectionalism