Unit 3
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| show | increased immigration.
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| The degree to which members of the Texas Republican Party have become more conservative, and members of the Texas Democratic Party have become more liberal, is referred to as | show 🗑
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| show | Latinos
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| show | In a one-party state, the winner of the primary will most likely win the general election.
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| show | proportional representation system
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| Most Texas Democrats today would be classified as | show 🗑
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| show | Hispanic democratics
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| show | Dwight Eisenhewr
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| The most important role for political parties in Texas elections is to | show 🗑
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| show | White Flight
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| which of the following is not usually considered a function of political parties? | show 🗑
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| show | single-member district systems result in two-party systems.
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| show | whites in East Texas.
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| show | Whites
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| _____________ elections are elections in which the party affiliations of candidates are not listed on the ballot. | show 🗑
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| The most local voting district is called the | show 🗑
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| Conservative Democrats in Texas are also known as | show 🗑
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| show | Wall Street and big business
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| show | litigate against unfavorable policies.
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| The Latino movement known as La Raza Unida occurred during the | show 🗑
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| Providing a label that helps voters identify those seeking office is an important function of | show 🗑
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| The Libertarian Party can be considered | show 🗑
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| ()()Which of the following is not true? | show 🗑
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| ()()During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Texas was | show 🗑
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| show | select delegates for the county convention.
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| Most of Texas’s African American population is concentrated in all of the following areas EXCEPT | show 🗑
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| show | State Convention
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| show | Civil Rights
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| show | Political Socialization
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| During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Texas was | show 🗑
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| show | The Wealthy
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| show | Presidental Repulicanism
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| show | Democratic
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| Texans are increasingly identifying themselves as | show 🗑
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| show | select delegates for the county convention.
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| show | County Convention
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| In Texas, the most oppressive restriction on the franchise was | show 🗑
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| ()((Officially, Texas has a | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is not a type of election found in Texas? | show 🗑
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| Approximately what percentage of the state’s voting-age population is registered to vote? | show 🗑
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| show | March
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| show | Presidential elections
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| The poll tax was made illegal in federal elections with the passage of the | show 🗑
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| Early voting in Texas has been shown to produce | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is the purpose of special elections? | show 🗑
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| The Motor Voter Act of 1993 | show 🗑
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| Preclearance is required by | show 🗑
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| Which statement concerning women’s suffrage is correct? | show 🗑
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| show | Poll Tax
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| The process of ______ involves recalculating how many congressional districts each state will receive based on the state’s population. | show 🗑
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| General elections are held | show 🗑
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| Early voting increases the polling period from twelve hours to | show 🗑
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| ______ is the traditional start of the general election campaign in Texas. | show 🗑
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| Name recognition often gives ______ a distinct advantage in Texas elections. | show 🗑
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| The procedure by which certain states, such as Texas, are required to obtain approval every time they make changes to districts is called | show 🗑
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| Kinky Friedman and Carole Keeton Strayhorn ran for governor as ______ in 2006. | show 🗑
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| show | Not sometimes there is no one willing to run for major statewide office./ parties become more important
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| Major statewide officials are elected in nonpresidential election years because | show 🗑
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| The ______ election decides who is elected to an office. | show 🗑
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| show | general election
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| Which of the following was NOT regularly used in Texas as a method of disenfranchising many minorities before the 1960s? | show 🗑
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| show | not property owneship
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| show | Voting Rights Act 1965
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| The two most important factors that determine whether someone votes are | show 🗑
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| Highly partisan legislation passed in 2011 now requires Texans to | show 🗑
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| When are elections for state offices held? | show 🗑
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| show | not Democratic; Republican
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| The most recent renewals to the Voting Rights Act require | show 🗑
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| show | the signature/petition requirements are often too stringent.
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| Campaigns attempt to reach voters through all of the following EXCEPT | show 🗑
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| Texas was the first state in the South to | show 🗑
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| All of the following are modern-day tactics for preventing certain groups from voting EXCEPT | show 🗑
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| show | 19th amendment
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| Women were given the right to vote in the United States with the passage of the | show 🗑
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| )() In Texas elections, the ______ play(s) the largest role in running campaigns. | show 🗑
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| ______ was the first Republican to hold the office of Texas governor since the end of Reconstruction. | show 🗑
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| What is the purpose of a primary election? | show 🗑
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| According to political scientist Daniel Elazar, Texas’s political culture is traditionalist and | show 🗑
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| show | He distributed $10,000 checks to state senators while lobbying them on a bill.
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| show | former legislators and government officials
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| show | Incumbents
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| What is the function of EMILY’s List? | show 🗑
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| The largest and most effective public employee interest group in Texas is made up of | show 🗑
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| show | professional
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| show | civil rights groups
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| ______ was the former Texas Speaker of the House who was indicted for taking an illegal gift from a law firm that specialized in collecting delinquent taxes for local governments. | show 🗑
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| When individuals or interest groups take out ads concerning a campaign issue but do not tie them directly to any particular candidate, it is called | show 🗑
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| show | bundling.
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| ()() Which of the following is not a reason that interest groups are useful to politicians? | show 🗑
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| show | Public Cause
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| show | interest groups have greater legitimacy with politicians than citizens do.
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| show | are not challenged by powerful, organized interest groups.
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| Texas has ______ laws dealing with lobbying by former government officials. | show 🗑
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| show | not trial lawyers/Public employess
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| show | Labor Unions
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| ()() Which of the following is not a typical threat to an incumbent running for reelection? | show 🗑
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| Interest groups are often powerful in states | show 🗑
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| show | The Grange
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| A private group that raises and distributes funds for use in election campaigns is called a(n) | show 🗑
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| The 8F Crowd was | show 🗑
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| show | A PAC is allowed to donate unlimited amounts of money directly to a particular candidate.
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| Texas trial lawyers frequently ally with | show 🗑
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| Most PAC spending in Texas represents | show 🗑
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| On average, incumbents in the Texas House of Representatives are able to fund-raise ______ challengers. | show 🗑
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| What was the problem Speaker Sam Rayburn identified with the “steak men” at the beginning of the twentieth century? | show 🗑
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| Bribery is | show 🗑
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| Lobbyists can do all of the following except | show 🗑
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| show | An interest group gives contributions after the election to a winning candidate the group had earlier opposed.
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| Which of the following is not a common way for interest groups to gain access to politicians and policy makers? | show 🗑
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| show | It is typically active only at the national level of government.
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| show | Republican Primaries
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| show | La Raza
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| show | Media
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| show | The poll tax restricted the participation of poor people in the general election.
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| Texas elections, the ______ play(s) the largest role in running campaigns | show 🗑
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