Chapter #1
Which city is located in the Panhandle region of Texas?
Amarillo
Which city is located in the Basin and Range Province region of Texas?
El Paso
What is the percentage of the Latino population in Florida?
22 percen
moralistic
A belief that government is designed to promote the public good describes the __________ political culture.
Which city is located in the Basin and Range Province?
El Paso
According to Hobbes: The state of nature is a state of total harmony and human compassion.
False
The Lower Rio Grande Valley is found in what region of Texas?
Gulf Coastal Plains
Houston is found in the Texas
Gulf Coastal Plains.
What was Stephen F. Austin's role in the development of Texas?
He worked with the Spanish government to bring American settlers into Texas
Which city in Texas currently has the largest population?
Houston
personal freedom and material wealth
Individualistic political culture, which began in the middle states, focuses on government policies that promote
Which of the following is a physical region of Texas?
Interior Lowlands, Basin and range province
Which political philosopher inspired the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke
As a percentage, which racial group will be the majority in Texas by 2050
Latino
What are the three core values in American Politics?
Liberty, Equality, and Democracy
According to the census data, what geographic region has experienced a consistent decline in percentage of population?
Midwest
The three major purposes of governments are: a) Maintaining Order (establishing the rule of law to preserve life and property); b)Providing Public Goods; c)Promoting Equality
True
Sharecropping
__________ is the system, common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, by which farmers would be lent land and equipment in exchange for part of the profits.
What is meant by the "Great Recession"?
a time of chronic economic problems beginning in late 2007 that drew analogies to the Great Depression of the 1930s
The cattle industry became big business
after the U.S. Civil War
In then-mayor Julian Castro's television debate with state senator Dan Patrick, Castro accused Patrick of
appealing to exclusionist and racist rhetoric in order to win the election.
Which of the following has traditionally dominated the political culture of Texas?
business interests
The Texas economy of the twenty-first century is centered oN
computers, electronics, and other high-tech products
Which historic event in state history occurred at Spindletop, Texas?
discovery of oil
NAFTA established
free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
Which of the following helped to undercut provincialism in Texas?
growing influence of minorities, women, and gays in state politics
The availability of land grants during the early nineteenth century in the Gulf Coastal Plains region was responsible for which of the following?
growth and development of political life in Texas
Which of the following had a positive influence on cotton production in Texas?
political independence and statehood the development of barbed wire and railroads increased immigration of white Americans into Texas
Population growth in Texas is explained by all of the following EXCEPT
slavery and indentured servitude
Who led the Grange and Populist movements of the late nineteenth century?
tenant farmers
The regulation of oil and energy in Texas is performed by
the Texas Railroad Commission.
The term creative destruction refers to the process by which
the capitalist system undergoes periodic waves of transformation caused by new technologies.
Dallas developed in the late nineteenth century as a result of
the intersection of two railroad lines
Social contract theory is one of the main pillars in American government
true
