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Governing Texas Ch 1
quiz 1
Question | Answer |
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African-American must be admitted to the University of Texas Law School in spite of the separate but equal doctrine (because the facilities Texas provided were in fact unequal) was... | Sweatt v. Painter |
While Texans typically are not supportive of state spending in general, they have supported strong action by the government in... | enforcing traditional values |
A Texan who supports energetic government activity to enforce their view of moral behavior by advocating government restrictions on, for example, pornography and same-sex relationships is a... | social conservative |
The "separate but equal" doctrine was established by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in... | Plessy v. Ferguson |
The traditionalistic subculture believes politics is the special responsibility of... | the social and economic elite |
Spindletop initiated Texas's... | age of the oil industry |
The standard term used by the federal government to describe persons whose heritage is from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, and other Spanish-speaking countries is... | Hispanic |
The region of Texas that is largely a social and cultural extension of the Old South, basically rural and biracial, is... | East Texas |
After the settling of South Texas, a ranchero culture developed in which most of the ranch work was performed by... | Mestizas |
The traditionalistic subculture predominates in which region of the U.S.? | The South |
The traditionalistic political subculture chiefly values... | maintenance of the predominant social and religious values |
In the Republic of Texas, women could do all of the following except... | get a job without her husband's consent |
Southern West Texas, below the Caprock Escarpment in the vicinity of the cities of Snyder, Midland and Odessa, is the major ___ area of Texas. | oil-producing |
Someone moving to Texas looking for the region most dominated religiously by Baptist Fundamentalism would be most likely to find it in... | West Texas |
The economy of the Gulf Coast has long been dominated by... | the petrochemical industry |
Status, wealth, and rights were traditionally monopolized in Texas by... | Anglo men |
A Texan who believes that government can be used as a tool to benefit the population as a whole by supporting, for example, state policies to abate pollution, enforce worker and consumer rights, and protect against discrimination is a... | Liberal |
Geographer Donald W. Meinig and political scientist Daniel J. Elazar describe modern Texas regional political culture as being largely determined by... | migration patterns |
By at least 2020, the largest demographic group in Texas is projected to be... | Hispanic |
The individualistic subculture predominates in which region of the U.S.? | The Middle Atlantic States |