Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
govt 2306: quiz 1
quiz 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| politics | The process by which individuals and political parties nominate and elect public officials and formulate public policy. |
| government | A public institution with authority to allocate values by formulating, adopting, and implementing public policies. |
| public policy | Government action designed to meet a public need or goal as determined by a legislative body or other authorized officials. |
| alien | A person who is neither a national nor a citizen of the country where he or she is living. |
| political culture | Attitudes, habits, and general behavior patterns that develop over time and affect the political life of a state or region. |
| moralistic culture | This political culture influences people to view political participation as their duty and to expect that government will be used to advance the public good. |
| individualistic culture | This political culture looks to government to maintain a stable society but with minimum intervention in the lives of the people. |
| traditionalistic culture | A product of the Old South, the traditionalistic political culture uses government as a means of preserving the status quo and its leadership. |
| political inefficiency | The inability to influence the nomination and election of candidates and the decision making of governing bodies. In Texas, this has been a major problem for minorities and low-income groups. |
| frontier experience | Coping with danger, physical hardships, and economic challenges tested the endurance of nineteenth-century Texans and contributed to the development of individualism. |
| Jim Crow | “Jim Crow’ laws were ethnically discriminatory laws that segregated African Americans and denied them access to public services for many decades after the Civil War. |
| patron system | A type of boss rule that has dominated areas of South Texas. |
| physical region | An area identified by unique geographic features, e.g., the Gulf Coastal Plains and the Great Plains. |
| Gulf Coastal Plains | Stretching from the Louisiana border to the Rio Grande, Texas’s Gulf Coastal Plains area is an extension of the Gulf Coastal Plains of the Unites States. |
| interior lowlands | This region covers the North Central Plains of Texas extending from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex westward to the Abilene area and northward to the Wichita Falls area. |
| great plains | A large area in West Texas extending from Oklahoma to Mexico, the Great Plains is an extension of the Great High Plains of the United States. |
| basin and range province | An arid region in West Texas that includes the Davis Mountains, Big Bend National Park, and El Paso. |
| spindletop field | Located near Beaumont, this oil field sparked a boom in 1901 that made Texas a leading petroleum producer. |
| railroad commission of texas (RRC) | A popularly elected, three-member commission primarily engaged in regulating natural gas and petroleum production. |
Created by:
stephparnell