GOVT 2306 Exam 1

________ percent of the world's population lives in the countries that are organized around a federal principle where there is a national government and regional government.

40

Discussion of the judicial department is in Article ________ of the Texas Constitution.

5

Which article of the Texas Constitution discusses free public education?

7

Which statement best describes the post-civil war governorship of E.J. Davis?

Davis was a Republican who used the centralized powers of the governorship to maintain control over his regime.

According to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, it is still possible to sue a state in district court if a voting procedure change negatively affects minority voters.

False

Dallas is located in the Basin and Range Province.

False

During the Nullification Crisis of 1833, South Carolina and several northern states attempted to nullify key provisions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.

False

Houston is the second-largest city in the United States.

False

Oil was the primary industry in Texas during the nineteenth century.

False

Over the last thirty years Texas has dispensed more on oil and gas for jobs than it did in the years previous.

False

The U.S. Supreme Court in Texas v. White et al. (1869) ruled that Texas did secede from the union.

False

________ provide(s) states constitutional protections that go above rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

Independent state grounds

Texas has four distinct physical regions EXCEPT

Interior Highlands

Which city is located in the Great Plains region of Texas?

Lubbock

Which country is the top importer of Texas exports?

Mexico

The use of block grants, allowing states considerable leeway in how federal money is spent, was championed by President ________ under the name New Federalism.

Nixon

The Reconstruction governor who initially refused to leave office after being ousted by voters was

Richard Coke

Which court case in 2013 struck down the formula for determining the states covered under the Section 5 preclearance requirement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

Shelby County v. Holder

The white primary, which was the practice of excluding African Americans from Democratic Party elections in Texas, was found unconstitutional as a result of which court case?

Smith v. Allwright

Which court case involved the University of Texas at Austin encouraging African American students to attend a black law school that had been set up by Texas to provide a separate but equal education for black Texans?

Sweatt v. Painter

Which of the following statements about the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1865 is FALSE?

Texas had to return to the federal government parts of Oklahoma seized by Texas Confederate soldiers.

Which Supreme Court case in 1869 resolved the debate over whether states can secede from the Union?

Texas v. White

Which is a true statement about the powers of the national government?

The amount of power the national government has exercised has grown over the last 200 years as a result of the "necessary and proper clause."

What is the major difference between the bill of rights in the Texas Constitution and the U.S. Bill of rights?

The texas constitution grants texans rights that are not found in the US constitution.

Although James Madison personally did not believe that the Tenth Amendment was necessary, he urged that it be adopted.

True

Cotton is one of the oldest crops grown in Texas.

True

Creative destruction provides a useful way to think about the economic changes that have shaped and reshaped the Texas economy.

True

In recent times, oil and gas royalties have created some of the largest university endowments for all University of Texas and Texas A&M schools.

True

New Federalism was President Richard Nixon's attempt to give individual states greater control over how they spent federal money.

True

On average, Texans are younger than the rest of the citizens of the United States.

True

One advantage that a federal system has over a highly centralized government is that it allows states to experiment with ways to improve public policy.

True

One of the major issues of the Civil War was how the federal system was to be understood.

True

Replacing the Articles of Confederation in 1787, the new U.S. Constitution allowed both the federal government and state governments to retain significant measures of sovereignty.

True

Since 2002, all major statewide elected offices have been controlled by Republicans.

True

The Texas Constitution created a plural executive, consisting of multiple elected executive officers.

True

The Texas Constitution creates two top appellate courts, one for civil cases and one for criminal cases.

True

The Texas Constitution of 1869 was written by members of the Republican Party, including ten African Americans.

True

There are rights guaranteed to Texans in Article 1 of the Texas Constitution that go far beyond those of the U.S. Constitution.

True

Unfunded mandates infringe upon state sovereignty.

True

Provincialism is defined as

a narrow view of the world.

Which factor contributed to the increase in the population of texas?

a natural increase of births in proportion to deaths

According to the Tenth Amendment, any powers not delegated to the national government by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states,

belong to either the people or the state.

Following the civil war, the ______ industry took off.

cattle

Under the New Deal, federalism is frequently described as

cooperative federalism

The 1819 McCulloch v. Maryland case ________ the powers of the federal government.

expanded

The Texas Constitutional Convention of 1974

failed to agree on a proposed constitution.

Controversy surrounding the Affordable Care Act is an example of the friction inherent in

federalism

The system of distributing powers between states and a central government is called

federalism

Which technological change did NOT help define and redefine the Texas political economy over the last 150 years?

large-scale irrigation from underwater reservoirs, particularly the Ogallala Aquifer

During the Nullification Crisis of 1833, South Carolina tried to assert the right to veto (or nullify)

national legislation passed by Congress.

Traditionalistic political cultures, according to Daniel Elazar, are typically found in the

south

Article VI of the U.S. Constitution contains the

supremacy clause

Who led the Grange and Populist movements of the late nineteenth century?

tenant farmers

The main problem that stalled the admission of Texas into the United States was

that Texas would be a proslavery state.

The regulation of oil and energy in Texas is performed by

the Texas Railroad Commission

In the case of Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), the Supreme Court decided that

the federal government's authority to regulate international and interstate commerce bestowed on it some power to regulate intrastate commerce.

Which provision of the 1836 Constitution was the most important adaptation of Spanish-American Law for the Texas Republic?

the idea of community property

Which of the following statements about republican government is INCORRECT?

the right to republican government is not guaranteed in the Texas bill of rights.

Which of the following requires state governments to spend their own money to meet standards imposed on them by the federal government?

unfunded mandates

The domination of Texas politics by Republicans after the Civil War ended

with the election of governor Richard Coke in 1873.