POLS 207 LIM TAMU COMPLETE EXAM
REVIEW WITH FULL SOLUTIONS
●● opportunity
Answer: people come to US for _____; to have food, services, jobs, etc.
●● paid maternity leave
Answer: US is one of the 2 countries in the world where women are not
given _____ _____ _____; babies are liabilities to parents
●● decreasing
Answer: non-Hispanic white population percentage has been _____
(Texas 16.4%, US 10.4%)
●● stable
Answer: African-American population in Texas and US has been _____
(~13%); harder life elsewhere, but still lower life expectancy
●● minority groups
Answer: Hispanic population is one of the largest _____ _____ in Texas
(39.4%) and the US (18.1%) due to higher birth rates
●● fastest
,Answer: Asian Americans are the _____ growing group in America;
currently 5-6% of population
●● Chinese Exclusion Act
Answer: after people complained about Chinese railroad workers, law
was enacted that denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the
country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate
●● family reunification
Answer: law that permits spouses and family members to come into
country (increases population
●● infants
Answer: Chinese came to America because they wanted safe food to eat
and air to breathe; protein chemicals in food was causing liver failure in
_____
●● maternity immigration
Answer: Chinese mothers would come to America to have baby
(American citizen by birth), then take baby back to China. Would send
child back to America for school, then could apply for visa for parents
when they turned 21 (and parents could come to America)
●● children, immigration
, Answer: population size can grow through having _____ or through
_____
●● negative (inverse)
Answer: relationship between education and fertility (also stronger
correlation between education of women and lower fertility rate)
●● Texas population today
Answer: Anglo (~50%)
Hispanic (~35%)
Black (~10%)
Other (~5%)
●● Texas population in future
Answer: Anglo (~25%)
Hispanic (~60%)
Black (~7%)
Other (~8%)
●● Texas Demography
Answer: Hispanic increasing dramatically
Anglo decreasing (switch places with Hispanic)
Black stable
REVIEW WITH FULL SOLUTIONS
●● opportunity
Answer: people come to US for _____; to have food, services, jobs, etc.
●● paid maternity leave
Answer: US is one of the 2 countries in the world where women are not
given _____ _____ _____; babies are liabilities to parents
●● decreasing
Answer: non-Hispanic white population percentage has been _____
(Texas 16.4%, US 10.4%)
●● stable
Answer: African-American population in Texas and US has been _____
(~13%); harder life elsewhere, but still lower life expectancy
●● minority groups
Answer: Hispanic population is one of the largest _____ _____ in Texas
(39.4%) and the US (18.1%) due to higher birth rates
●● fastest
,Answer: Asian Americans are the _____ growing group in America;
currently 5-6% of population
●● Chinese Exclusion Act
Answer: after people complained about Chinese railroad workers, law
was enacted that denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the
country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate
●● family reunification
Answer: law that permits spouses and family members to come into
country (increases population
●● infants
Answer: Chinese came to America because they wanted safe food to eat
and air to breathe; protein chemicals in food was causing liver failure in
_____
●● maternity immigration
Answer: Chinese mothers would come to America to have baby
(American citizen by birth), then take baby back to China. Would send
child back to America for school, then could apply for visa for parents
when they turned 21 (and parents could come to America)
●● children, immigration
, Answer: population size can grow through having _____ or through
_____
●● negative (inverse)
Answer: relationship between education and fertility (also stronger
correlation between education of women and lower fertility rate)
●● Texas population today
Answer: Anglo (~50%)
Hispanic (~35%)
Black (~10%)
Other (~5%)
●● Texas population in future
Answer: Anglo (~25%)
Hispanic (~60%)
Black (~7%)
Other (~8%)
●● Texas Demography
Answer: Hispanic increasing dramatically
Anglo decreasing (switch places with Hispanic)
Black stable
