Chapter 1

Question 1

How are the policies that Texas government adopts determined?

Answer 1

By the people involved in the decision process and the political culture in Texas

Question 2

What is a political culture?

Answer 2

It reflects the political values and beliefs of a people

Question 3

What has always been Texas’ political culture?

Answer 3

The government should be marginalized

Question 4

What is the modern Texas’ political culture?

Answer 4

Individualistic and conservative

Question 5

Texas individualistic culture

Answer 5

It values the individual over the society in general

Question 6

What does individualistic philosophy mean?

Answer 6

This philosophy expects each individual to earn his way in life without benefit of government help

Question 7

What should happen in a individualistic culture?

Answer 7

It should be minimized, taxes should be low, and government benefits should be low

Question 8

Texas conservative culture

Answer 8

It favors in continuing rule of those in power, whether that is political or economic

Question 9

Where does conservatism derive from?

Answer 9

The Old South and Mexico

Question 10

How is Texas changing today?

Answer 10

Increased urbanization, immigration from other states and countries, and technological change all bring new ideas and concepts to Texas

Question 11

What was the economy and political power of early Texas based on?

Answer 11

Cattle, cotton, and oil

Question 12

What is the modern challenge of Texas?

Answer 12

An absolute need for increased education funding and a historical unwillingness to support that such an effort

Question 13

How was Texas government often seen?

Answer 13

As apart of the problem and not the solution

Question 14

What do a new economy and new demographics require?

Answer 14

Major changes in the the way that the state does business

Question 15

How are the current challenges of education, poverty, and environment being met?

Answer 15

With governmental structure not designed to change or resolve problems

Question 16

What term describes the dominant political values and beliefs in a nation or state?

Answer 16

Political culture

Question 17

Which is an incorrect statement about social conservatives in Texas?

Answer 17

They do not support the use of state power to restrict gambling

Question 18

What percentage of Texans say they are “in the middle” between conservative and liberal viewpoints?

Answer 18

25 percent

Question 19

Fifty-three percent of Texans believe we spend too little on which specific public policy?

Answer 19

Elementary and secondary education

Question 20

According to Daniel Elazar which of the following distinct political subcultures does not exist in Texas?

Answer 20

Modernistic

Question 21

Which of the following is not considered an aspect of the moralistic subculture?

Answer 21

Association with more religious attitudes

Question 22

What is a correct statement about the individualistic political subculture?

Answer 22

Government’s prime objective is to further private enterprise

Question 23

What is not considered a belief of the traditionalistic political subculture?

Answer 23

This subculture believes in public rather than personal solutions to problems

Question 24

According to Daniel Elazar, what is the subculture of Texas?

Answer 24

Traditionalistic and individualistic

Question 25

What is a true statement about political participation due to Texas’s political subculture?

Answer 25

Participation in politics is not as highly regarded as in those states with a moralistic culture.

Question 26

What is not a correct statement about Texas, according to D.W. Meinig?

Answer 26

There is such a thing as a “typical” Texan

Question 27

Which region of Texas is an extension of the old South?

Answer 27

East Texas

Question 28

Which region of Texas has experienced continuous growth because of Spindletop?

Answer 28

Gulf Coast

Question 29

Due to its growth by migration from other regions and nations, Houston street signs can be seen in all of the following languages except

Answer 29

German

Question 30

What describes a Mestizo?

Answer 30

An individual of both Spanish and Native

Question 31

What of the following is not correct about modern South Texas?

Answer 31

The Rio Grande is now one of America’s least ecologically endangered rivers

Question 32

Which region of Texas is socially and politically conservative and a stronghold of the Texas Republican Party?

Answer 32

German Hill Country

Question 33

Which city advertises itself as the “Sheep and Wool Capital of the World”?

Answer 33

San Angelo

Question 34

Which region is called the “core area” of Texas?

Answer 34

Central Texas

Question 35

During the period of the Texas Republic, married women had all of the following rights except the right to

Answer 35

Serve on juries

Question 36

What group supported Governor James Ferguson’s impeachment?

Answer 36

Politically power UT graduates, suffragists, and anti-corruption advocates

Question 37

Which Act granted married women equal rights in insurance, banking, real estate, contracts, divorce, child custody, and property rights?

Answer 37

Martial Property Act

Question 38

Which individual successfully overturned Roe v. Wade in 1973?

Answer 38

Sara Weddington

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Smith v. Allwright

Question 40

Which court case validated the exclusion of African Americans from the Texas Democratic primary?

Answer 40

Nixon v. Herndon

Question 41

Which individual was not one of the “Big Four” African Americans who shaped the civil rights struggle in the1950s and 1960s?

Answer 41

Wiley Bishop