Texas Government Questions with CORRECT Answers (Verified Update)
Q1: According to surge-and decline theory, voter turnout in the United States is highest in
__________.
Answer: U.S. presidential years
Q2: After a primary election, the next major election is a __________ election, in which the
nominees from the parties contest an election to determine who win office.
Answer: general
Q3: Redistricting occurs throughout the United States every _________ years.
Answer: ten
Q4: Today, ranked-choice voting is used _________.
Answer: in municipal elections and primaries in various U.S. jurisdictions
Q5: In Montgomery Independent School District v. Martin (1971), the Texas Supreme Court
upheld property ownership requirements to vote in municipal bond elections on what legal
basis?
Answer: only those with a tangible interest should be the ones permitted to vote on the bonds
Q6: Texas women could legally vote in all elections a year before passage of the Nineteenth
Amendment. (T/F)
A. True
B. False
Answer: B. False
Q7: How can a legal voter cast a ballot in Texas if they lack an acceptable form of voter
identification?
Answer: by filing a Reasonable Impediment Declaration (RID) form
Q8: In a democracy, ultimate power and authority rests with whom?
Answer: the people
Q9: In Texas, who or what redraw legislative districts?
Answer: the party in power
, Q10: Who was the most notable Republican governor of Texas during the Reconstruction era?
Answer: Edmund Davis
Q11: A mission statement is to a college or university as a _________ is to a political party.
Answer: platform
Q12: In recent elections, costs have ________.
Answer: increased immensely
Q13: In the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump won votes among poor white people in
the Rust Belt, traditionally a Democratic constituency, while many well-educated
middle-class conservative Republicans, turned off by Trump's divisive rhetoric may term the
2016 presidential election a ___________ election.
Answer: situating
Q14: Which 1872 event or action gradually led to the re-establishment of white rule in Texas?
Answer: the re- establishment of suffrage rights for ex-Confederates
Q15: "We just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a generation." President ________
uttered these words to an aide after signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson
Q16: Which party dominated Texas politics during Reconstruction?
Answer: Republican
Q17: As third parties in Texas history, both the Southern Farmers Alliance and the People's Party
_________.
Answer: focused on agrarian issues
Q18: When are social movements and interest groups most likely to form?
Answer: when interests are threatened by a change in the social and the economic environment
Q19: What happens when a bureaucratic agency is "captured?"
Answer: it acts in the best interests of the industry it is supposed to regulate
Q1: According to surge-and decline theory, voter turnout in the United States is highest in
__________.
Answer: U.S. presidential years
Q2: After a primary election, the next major election is a __________ election, in which the
nominees from the parties contest an election to determine who win office.
Answer: general
Q3: Redistricting occurs throughout the United States every _________ years.
Answer: ten
Q4: Today, ranked-choice voting is used _________.
Answer: in municipal elections and primaries in various U.S. jurisdictions
Q5: In Montgomery Independent School District v. Martin (1971), the Texas Supreme Court
upheld property ownership requirements to vote in municipal bond elections on what legal
basis?
Answer: only those with a tangible interest should be the ones permitted to vote on the bonds
Q6: Texas women could legally vote in all elections a year before passage of the Nineteenth
Amendment. (T/F)
A. True
B. False
Answer: B. False
Q7: How can a legal voter cast a ballot in Texas if they lack an acceptable form of voter
identification?
Answer: by filing a Reasonable Impediment Declaration (RID) form
Q8: In a democracy, ultimate power and authority rests with whom?
Answer: the people
Q9: In Texas, who or what redraw legislative districts?
Answer: the party in power
, Q10: Who was the most notable Republican governor of Texas during the Reconstruction era?
Answer: Edmund Davis
Q11: A mission statement is to a college or university as a _________ is to a political party.
Answer: platform
Q12: In recent elections, costs have ________.
Answer: increased immensely
Q13: In the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump won votes among poor white people in
the Rust Belt, traditionally a Democratic constituency, while many well-educated
middle-class conservative Republicans, turned off by Trump's divisive rhetoric may term the
2016 presidential election a ___________ election.
Answer: situating
Q14: Which 1872 event or action gradually led to the re-establishment of white rule in Texas?
Answer: the re- establishment of suffrage rights for ex-Confederates
Q15: "We just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a generation." President ________
uttered these words to an aide after signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson
Q16: Which party dominated Texas politics during Reconstruction?
Answer: Republican
Q17: As third parties in Texas history, both the Southern Farmers Alliance and the People's Party
_________.
Answer: focused on agrarian issues
Q18: When are social movements and interest groups most likely to form?
Answer: when interests are threatened by a change in the social and the economic environment
Q19: What happens when a bureaucratic agency is "captured?"
Answer: it acts in the best interests of the industry it is supposed to regulate
