Mexican American War Quiz

How well do you know about the Mexican American War ?

• Who was U.S. President when the Mexican War began ? = James Polk (1795-1849)
• Why did the United States declare war on Mexico ? = U.S. Annexation of Texas (December 1845) – Manifest Destiny – Border Dispute
• When was the war started and ended ? = April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848
• What does “Manifest Destiny” mean ? = United States was destined to expand across North America to the Pacific Ocean.
• Who won the war ? = United States
• What was the name of the treaty that ended the war ? = The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• What did America gain after the Mexican American War ? = Land from Texas to California

Why do clocks Spring Forward ?

Daylight and Save Energy

Who proposed the idea of Daylight Saving Time, and when ? = Benjamin Franklin (1784) – George Vernon Hudson (1895) – William Willett (1905)

Body Mass Index (BMI) Chart

Why Do Snowflakes Always Have 6 Sides ?

A Water Molecule

  

Sleep Cycle

 Explore the cycles and 5 stages of sleep

Why Are Rainbows Curved ?

Because sunlight shines into raindrops.

A rainbow is curved due to angle between 40 and 42 degrees. Light from the sun that bounces through a drop of water, comes into your eye, and appears red must bounce at a specific angle.

     

Who painted The Starry Night ?

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh painted his iconic The Starry Night in 1889, while in an asylum in Saint-Remy, France. The Starry Night is the most famous painting of all time. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was brilliant but unstable Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His best-known works are sunflowers, self portraits, and landscapes.

 

Who invented the Telephone ?

Alexander Graham Bell

• On March 1876, the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) who was a Scottish-born American scientist, inventor, engineer, innovator, and teacher of the deaf. As a boy, Alexander Graham Bell was fascinated by the mechanics of speech and sound. As an adult, he followed in his father’s footsteps and taught elocution to the deaf and hard of hearing.
• Working with his assistant Thomas A. Watson, he discovered the potential for sound waves to travel over a wire. He did this because he wanted to talk to people near and far without writing letters.
• “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you ! “. These historic words, the first articulate sentence ever spoken over an electric telephone, were uttered by Alexander Graham Bell when he spilled on his clothes some sulphuric acid which was part of the transmission apparatus. It was the night of March 10, 1876. The receiver was a tuned reed.
• Alexander Graham Bell achieves the invention of telephone, graphophone, and twisted pair.

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