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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


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