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
