texas government

The right to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

15th amendment

The women suffrage amendment

19th amendment

Anti poll tax amendment

24th amendment

states cannot deny citizens 18 years of age or older the vote on the basis of age

26th amendment

Where and when was spindletop? Whats its significance?

3 miles south of Boumont along the Gulf coast. Januarty 10,1901 Texas first oil boom

cooke county is a Micrometropolitan area with ______-_____

4,000-49,000

What percent of the world's population live within a federal system?

40%

If you have a cluster of towns with ________ people or more its considered a metropolitan area

50,000

What percentage of the Texas population lives in metropolitan areas?

85%

What political party dominates the border area

Democratic party

Arson on a private residence is a federal crime

Jones v. U.S.

latin for "to leave alone"; government is leaving business alone; political conservatism

Laissez faire

miscegenation law

prohibited blacks and whites from getting married

government promotion of business

pseudo-Laissez faire

What is "preemption"

where the national governement imposes its priorities and prevents the state from acting in a particular field.

What do metropolitan areas tend to be?

younger

national market

impersonal economy

certain qualifications to get money

"Red tape"

give a reward (money) to encourage them to do certain things, if you don't do what you're supposed to you won't get the money.

"carrot or stick"

Congress is not allowing states to do certain things

preemption

structures of Government

- unitary or centralized - conderate - federal

What promoted the growth of cotton in Texas

1. Barbed wire 2. rail roads 3. new plow design

What were two important consequences of the farm tenant or share cropping system?

1. It condemned many dual Texans to lives of social and economic dependency 2. Fueled radical political discontent in real areas, sparking both grange and populist movements.

What three major waves of technological change in the Texas economy

1. cotton and cattle 2. oil industry 3. High tech digital economy

What fraction of the Texas population was slave at the time of the Civil War

1/3

What fraction of the Texas population was space at the time of the Civil War?

1/3

How many deep water ports are in Texas? Which are the largest?

12; Port of Houston

this is one of the most important amendments to the constitution. "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the US, NOR SHALL ANY STATE DEPRICE ANY PERSON OF LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAWS."

14th amendment

one state can't treat visitors from other states like 2nd class

privileges and immunities

What is "provincialism" and how has it weakened?

A narrow and limited self interested view of the world ofter associated with real values and notions of limited government. The growing influence of minorities, women and gays in state politics, increasing urbanization, and Texas revenue in global economy.

Theres more flexibility in terms of what you can get; generally don't get as much money as categorical grants

Block grants

What is the "boom" aspect and the "bust" aspect of the petroleum industry?

Boom: rual areas were unprepared for the population explosion that followed the oil discovery Bust: large amounts of oil could lead to a drop in prices

What does the term "creative destruction" mean and its significance?

Capitalism was an economic system that underwent periodic waves of transformation filed by technological innovations in production and distribution. It not only creates a new economic and social world; it destroys old ones

where a few have siproportionated amount of power; Government usually upper class

Elitism

Categorical grants

Federal highways act

What is "coercive federalism?"

Federal policies that force states to change their politics to achieve national goals

refers to money

Fiscal Federalism

only state and local government; it's the power to protect the health, safety, convenience, and morality of people

General police power

states responsibilities to each other

Horizontal federalism

west texas

IT

explanation of Political System

Is the government and the external things which influence it

civil rights act 1954 is based on what?

It is based on interstate commerce

federal

National gov. over state gov.

Only three U.S. cities are larger in population than houston. What are they?

New York, Los Angeles, Chicago

What are the dimensions north to south, and east to west?

North to South: 801 Miles East to West: 773 Miles

NIMBY stands for what?

Not In My Back Yard

What were the provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act?

Outlawed literacy and other similar devices that historically were used to disfranchise minorities.

knows as "brotherly love"

Philidelphia

freezing out the state. only national government can do it

Preemtion

What two things do the Meadows Foundation, the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, and the Bass Performance Hall have in common?

Private philanthropies who's one came from oil

Where and when did the transcontinental rail road meet?

Promontory Point, Utah; 1869

which political party is dominant in Texas, and why is it more conservative than it use to be?

Republican party; tea party influence

east texas

TI

Why is Texas characterized and having a "traditionalistic individualistic culture?"

Taxes are kept low and social services are minimized. Political elites and guided by tradition. It's origin is the south

What are the 3 mega states?

Texas, Florida, Part of Cali.

What is "marble cake federalism"

The boundaries between the national government and state government have become blurred

What was the "Sanford dictum" in 1925

The first amendment right of free speech was a fundamental right that applied to the states

How do Democrats criticize the Texas Voter ID law?

The law actually was designed not to reduce almost nonexistent voter fraud, but to disfranchise many minority voters who vote democrat

How do Republicans defend the new Texas Voter ID law?

The law was passed to reduce voter fraud

definition of Government

The political arm of society

gun free school zones act is unconstitutional

U.S. v. Lopez

National Labor Relations act

Wagner act

What state was the first to give women the right to vote?

Wyoming

What is federalism?

a system of government in which power is divided between a central government and a regional government

What forms a triangle which is the heart of the Texas economy?

i35 from San Antonio to Dallas, i45 from dallas to houston, i10 from houston to san antonio

spanish architecture

adobe, mission style

older texas elite

based on real estate, oil, banking and insurance

What does the term creative destruction mean and its significance

capitalism was an economic system that underwent periodic waves of transformation fulded by technological innovations in production and distribution. It not only creates a new economic and social world; it destroys the old ones

the opposite of preemption is?

concurrent power

Interstate commerce clause

congress has the authority

Wickard v. Filburn

congress is trying to regulate how much crops farmers could grow

What are "categorical grants"

congressionally appropriated grants to states and localities on the condition that expenditures be limited to a problem or group specified by law

all the grant programs cause this

cooperative federalism

another version of cooperative federalism

creative federalism

Where you have a police in an area that affects a police in an unrelated area

cross-over sanction

confederate

decentralized, states over national gov.

conflict over who has the power. the supreme court decides who has the power

dual federalism

legal process to get a fugitive from another state

extradition

less than 15,000 people

fronter counties

status doesn't change of you move to a different state

full faith and credit

link different forms of government

intermodal transportation

deals with a regional problem; this is how several states can agree on something

interstate compacts

In the beginning what two things did people expect from the government

keep us out of war and deliver the mail

old wealth

liberal

What are the "four legs" of the San Antonio economy

national military bases, educational institutions, tourism, and a large medical research complex

What are the "four legs" of the San Antonio economy?

national military bases, educational institutions, tourisms, and a large medical research complex

People who leave the north during the winter months are called?

snow birds

outlawing discrimination

social legislation

generally where are people in the US moving?

southwest

Intrastate commerce

state has the authority

company exempt from taxes for x amount of years

taxabatement

Local government has to pay

unfunded mandates