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Texas Government Exam 1 Ch. 1, 2, 3 Questions and Answers
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Texas Government Exam 1 Ch. 1, 2, 3Questions and Answers
NAFTA has created a free-trade market throughout North and Central America. -
Answers -False
Oil was the primary industry in Texas during the 1800s. - Answers -False
Which factor contributed most to the increase in the population of Texas? - Answers -A
natural increase in births in proportion to death.
When compared to the rest of the nation, the population of Texas - Answers -is
relatively young.
Which city in Texas currently has the largest population? - Answers -Houston
Agriculture accounts for 35 percent of the contemporary Texan workforce. - Answers -
False
What are the three things Texans believe in? - Answers -Liberty, Equality, Democracy
When Texas sold public land to public land to private owners, it also retained ownership
of the mineral rights, these rights would provide funding for? - Answers -Education
Houston is found in which part of Texas? - Answers -Gulf Coastal plains
The second largest city in Texas today is? - Answers -San Antonio
Since late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the Border region, including El
Paso, McAllen, and Brownsville, has remained politically a ___ baston - Answers -
Democratic Party
Which of the following has played a prominent role in the political culture of Texas? -
Answers -Business Leaders
Texas's political life grew out of which region? - Answers -The Gulf Coastal Plains
Houston is the second largest city in the Unties States. - Answers -False
Cotton is one of the oldest grown crops in Texas. - Answers -True
, The white primary, which was the practice of excluding African Americans from
Democratic Party primary elections in Texas, was found unconstitutional as a result of
which court case? - Answers -Smith v. Allwright
The Fifteenth Amendment protects the rights of the citizens to vote regardless of race or
order. - Answers -True
Under the New Deal federalism is frequently describes as? - Answers -Cooperative
federalism
What is the New Deal? - Answers -The New Deal was a series of programs and
projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that
aimed to restore prosperity to Americans.
Governors and state officials would tend to favor which type of federal funding, since it
provides flexibility in terms of how the funds can be used? - Answers -Block Grants
in his landmark cases, Chief Justice John Marshall generally - Answers -supported the
authority of the federal government over that of the state government.
Unfunded mandates requiring states to meet the federal guidelines without financial
support are associated with coercive federalism. - Answers -True
Federalism is often used in countries that have? - Answers -Ethnic or cultural divisions
In which 1989 court case did the Texas supreme court unanimously declare that the
huge disparities between rich and poor school districts were unacceptable and order
changes in the financing of Texas public schools? - Answers -Edgewood v. Kirby
The understanding of the national government and state government are both sovereign
within their sphere of influence is called? - Answers -Dual federalism
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. - Answers -Coercive
The social security act of 1935 created which of the following for eligible participants? -
Answers -Unemployment insurance
Texas is among several states that have decided to take what action in response to the
Affordable Care act? - Answers -Refuse to expand access to Medicaid
The Nullification Crisis of 1833 was caused by South Carolina's attempt to ignore key
provisions of the New Deal. - Answers -False
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