Chapter 1

Question 1

broadly shared values, beliefs and attitudes about how government and society should function

Answer 1

political culture

Question 2

what kind of political culture does Texas have?

Answer 2

Traditionalistic Individualistic

Question 3

what kind of state is Texas?

Answer 3

Hybrid State

Question 4

what court case ended all white primaries?

Answer 4

Smith vs Allwright

Question 5

includes a sense of obligation for community welfare. This obligation extends to a general readiness for policy initiatives in the “public interest” even when such action is not demanded by state electorates

Answer 5

moralistic political culture

Question 6

emphasizes private initiative with a minimum of government interference. Governments role should be limited to protecting individual rights and ensuring that social and political relationships are based on merit

Answer 6

Individualistic political culture

Question 7

views the role of government as the preservation of tradition and the existing social order. Government leadership is in the hands of a social elite, and the level of participation by ordinary citizens in the policymaking process is relatively low

Answer 7

Traditionalistic political culture

Question 8

would rather compromise their principles than lose elections (would do whatever it takes to win)

Answer 8

brokerage parties

Question 9

would rather lose elections than compromise their principles (this is what you believe in, if you don’t like it, join another party)

Answer 9

ideological parties

Question 10

a narrow view associated with rural values and notions of limited government (Texas’s political culture was once defined as this)

Answer 10

Provincialism

Question 11

a set of underlying orientations, ideas and beliefs

Answer 11

ideology

Question 12

how popular is the state of Texas

Answer 12

2nd most popular state

Question 13

the white-only primary and the poll tax actively discouraged what by latinos?

Answer 13

voting

Question 14

tax paid when casting a ballot

Answer 14

poll tax

Question 15

laws which governed the conduct of African Americans

Answer 15

black codes

Question 16

became the first Mexican-American to be elected to the Texas Senate in modern times

Answer 16

Henry B. Gonzalez

Question 17

was mexico for slavery or against it?

Answer 17

anti-slavery

Question 18

how many African American men were registered voters

Answer 18

100,000+

Question 19

by law

Answer 19

de jure

Question 20

by fact

Answer 20

de facto

Question 21

supreme court held that “separate but equal” accommodations for blacks and whites were constitutional

Answer 21

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Question 22

case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 22

Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954)

Question 23

case where Sweatt successfully integrated Texas pubic law schools after the U.S. Supreme Court began to chip away at the “separate-but-equal” doctrine

Answer 23

Sweatt v. Painter

Question 24

Federal District Judge William Wayne ordered the complete desegregation of all Texas public schools

Answer 24

United States v. Texas

Question 25

The Supreme Court struck down the Texas White Primary Law under the Equal Protections Clause of the 14th Amendment

Answer 25

Nixon vs. Herndon (1927)

Question 26

amendment which prohibited the use of poll taxes

Answer 26

24th Amendment

Question 27

like most African Texans, Latinos were relegated to the lowest-paid jobs as either service workers or farm workers

Answer 27

Raymondville Peonage cases

Question 28

gave Latino Americans full citizenship and civil respect

Answer 28

Hector Garcia and the American GI Forum

Question 29

In its ruling, the United State Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students into separate “Mexican schools” was unconstitutional

Answer 29

Mendez v. Westminster (1947)

Question 30

case where the US Supreme Court recognized Mexican Americans as a class whose rights Anglos had violated through Jim Crow practices

Answer 30

Hernandez v. State of Texas (1954)

Question 31

this case served as a forerunner of future decisions prohibiting discrimination by gender, disability, and sexual orientation

Answer 31

Hernandez v State of Texas (1954)

Question 32

Woman’s suffrage amendment (Texas was one of the first southern states to ratify this amendment)

Answer 32

19th Amendment

Question 33

the act granted married women equal rights in insurance, banking, real estate, contracts, divorce, child custody, and property rights. This was the first such comprehensive family law in the US

Answer 33

The Marital Property Act

Question 34

support same sex marriage

Answer 34

Lawrence & Garner vs Texas

Question 35

case that ruled that states must offer marriage license to same sex couples

Answer 35

Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

Question 36

rests on the principle of majority rule and respect for minority rights

Answer 36

Democracy

Question 37

protect from gov. interference (gov is negative)

Answer 37

civil liberties

Question 38

protections by the government (gov is postive)

Answer 38

civil rights

Question 39

amendment which black males get the right to vote

Answer 39

15th Amendment

Question 40

theory that shows in democracies the aggregate distribution of political opinion forms a bell-shaped curve, with most voters possessing moderate opinions

Answer 40

Downs Theory