Texas Government Chapters 1- 3

________ is important because it effects how people in politics and how individuals and institutions interact.

A belief that government is designed to promote the public good describes the ______ culture.

Traditionalistic political cultures, according to Daniel Elazar, are typically found in the

Political culture is a tem used to describe

Which of the following best characterize traditional, individualistic political culture?

Which of the following is the best description of Texas political culture?

Which of the following does NOT reflect one of the historic characteristics that make up Texas political culture?

By _______, all major statewide elected offices in Texas were controlled by Republicans.

Provincialism is best defines as

Which of the following political groups have traditionally had the LEAST influence on Texas politics

Which of the following has traditionally dominated the political culture of Texas?

Texas has four distinct physical regions EXCEPT

Which economic industry does NOT originate in the Gulf Coast Plains region?

Texas's political life grew out of which region?

Houston is found in the Texas

Which city is located in the Great Plains region of Texas

Big Bend is found in what region of Texas?

Politically, urban areas and suburban areas in Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth can be characterized as _______ and ________ areas.

Since late Twentieth and early twenty- first century, the Boarder region, including El Paso, McAllen, and Brownsville, has remained politically a _______bastion.

Which technological change did NOT help define and redefine the Texas political economy over the last 150 years?

________ is the system, common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, by which farmers would lent land and equipment in exchange for part of the profits.

Who led the Grange and Populist movement of the late nineteenth century?

When in Texas history did cattle become big business?

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the spread of cattle ranching in the nineteenth century?

Which event occurred at Spindletop, Texas

The regulation of oil and energy in Texas is performed by

________ was the chief economic product of Texas during the early twentieth century.

The largest royalty for Texas university endowment comes from which economic product?.

Which two Texas metropolitan area are national centers for the high-tech industry?

Technological change in Texas is best evidenced by

Which Texas metropolitan area is known worldwide for its medical center and expanding research facilities in the medical field?

What year was the North American Fair Trade Agreement (NAFTA) SIGNED

NAFTA established

Which of the following contributed most to the increase in the population of Texas?

Approximately what percentage of the current population in Texas us Hispanic?

in 1944, the Supreme Court case Smith v. Allwright ended

Which racial or ethic group in Texas is concentrated in East Texas?

What was Stephen F. Austin's role in the development of Texas

In 1950, the Supreme Court case Sweatt v. Painter

Which city in Texas currently has the highest population?

Which of the following is NOT a function of the state constitution>

The system of distributing powers between states and central government is called?

The supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution states that

Which event did NOT signal the break with Britain and the emergence of the United States as a confederate republic

The current Texas Constitution borrowed all of the following from the Constitution of 1827 EXCEPT

Which province of the 1836 Constitution was the most important adaption of Spanish-American Law for the Texas Republic

The majority of delegates to the Convention of 1836 that drafted the Constitution for a newly independent Republic of Texas were from

Texas became an independent republic in _________ and became part of the United States in ___________.

The main problem that stalled the admission of Texas into the United States was

Which of the following was NOT part of the annexation agreement between Texas and the Unites States?

_________ dominated the secession convention of 1861.

Which of the following statement about the Texas Constitution Convention of 1865 is FALSE?

Who were the Radical Republicans?

The Texas Constitution of 1869 was created

Which of the following statements best describes the post-Civil War governorship of E.J. Davis?

The domination of Texas politics by Republicans after the Civil War ended

What was Texas's most progressive constitution in terms of power and organization?

Who made up the Grange, and what effect did they have on the writing of the Texas Constitution?

In what year was Texas's current constitution ratified

What principle of government is the key to understanding the drafting of the Texas Constitution of 1876?

The Mexican War of independence against ________ grew out of the _________

Which of the following statement best describes the structure of the Texas legislature?

The Texas Constitution was written to

Which of the following was NOT a goal for those writing the Texas Constitution?

What is the major difference between the bill of rights in the Texas Constitution and the U.S. Bill of Rights?

Which of the following describes a significant difference between the structures of the Texas executive department and the structures of the U.S. executive branch?

Under the Texas Constitution, who has the power of impeachment?

The Texas Constitution requires which of the following for amendment?

The Texas Constitution is

In the United States, checks and balances allow each branch of government to limit the other branches and in so doing support the principle of

The Texas Constitution Convention of 1974

What was the main criticism of the current Texas Constitution behind the Ratliff-Junell proposal for a new constitution

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the low level of voter turnout for constitutional amendment?

The Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) ruled all of the following EXCEPT that

________ percent of the world's population lives in the countries that are organized around a federal principle where there is a national government and regional government.

Congress gained the power to tax income through

Both the federal and state government obtained sovereignty directly from

A defining characteristic of federalism is that

Which amendment was commonly referred to as the States' Rights Amendment?

During the nullification Crisis in 1833, South Carolina tried to assert the right to veto (or nullify)

In the Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), Chief Justice John Marshall argued that

In his famous landmark cases, Chief Justice John Marshall generally

In the case of Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), the Supreme Court decided that

Which Supreme Court case in 1869 voted Texas's secession from the Union?

According to the Tenth Amendment, any powers not delegated to the national government by the Constitution

Which of the following styles of federalism characterized the immediate pre-Civil War era?

Under the New Deal, federalism is frequently described as

For eligible participants, the Social Security Act of 1935 instituted all of the following EXCEPT

During which of the following president's administration did the federal government's power, especially with regard to the economy, increase the most?

The use of block grants, allowing states considerable leeway in how federal money is spent, was championed by President __________ under the name New Federalism

A federal program that gives a state government federal funds to address a specific need but gives the state wide latitude in deciding how the funds will be spent is known as a

Which of the following requires state governments to spend their own money to meet standards imposed on them by the federal government

The supremacy clause, stipulated in Article VI of the following Constitution, holds that

Until a national database was created, background checks under the Brady Act were suspended following the Supreme Court's ruling in

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

The legal doctrine at issue in the Plessy v. Ferguson case is the

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson in

In the Brown v. Board of Education case, segregated school districts were ordered to

In Plyer v. Doe, the Supreme Court held that Texas may not deny free public education to the children of illegal aliens. How did the courts justify its decision?

As federal regulations became more intrusive, forcing states to change their policies in order to meet national goals, some people began calling our system a ___________ federalism.