Texas Government 2306- Chapter 1 Quiz well answered 2023/2024

Texas Government 2306- Chapter 1 QuizQ: Texas's statehood in the United States - correct answer was not made official in 1846. Q: Traditionalistic political culture is characterized by - correct answer A: views more associated with the Old South. Q: Texas's secession from the United States - correct answer A: was formally established in 1861. Q: Which of the following political culture types is weakest in Texas? - correct answer A: Moralism Q: In the section Transitions to the Twenty-first Century, the authors write, "Texas spent the rest of the twentieth century in transition." Which of the following is noted in that section as a transition? - correct answer A: The growth of women's political rights and participation Q: Which of the following did not cause a major transition in Texas politics? - correct answer A: The rise to prominence of cowboys in Texas government in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Q: The rise of the Grange and the "Redeemers" was important because - correct answer A: it led to the writing the constitution that is still in use in Texas today. Q: Texas reduced its reliance on most forms of taxation in the first part of the twentieth century because of - correct answer A: a large influx of funds from the rapidly growing oil industry. Q: Texas history can be best understood as - correct answer A: a long string of transitions that often brought conflict between old ways and new ways. Q: The weakening of the influence of Civil War allegiances in Texas has led to the growing power of the Republican Party because - correct answer A: conservatives have been willing to abandon the Democratic Party. Q: In the authors' description of Texas during the Great Depression and New Deal, which of the following did not occur? - correct answer A: The booming oil industry spared the Texas economy from the effects of the Depression. Q: In the Texas Geography section of Chapter 1, the authors note the relationship between the land of Texas and the mentality of Texans. Which of the following is the authors' example of Texans' mentality being shaped by the state's geographic size? - correct answer A: The sense that Texas is a place of limitless potential Q: In the Mexican Independence section of Chapter 1, what was a noted motivation for Mexican independence from Spain? - correct answer A: The demand that those born in the New World be endowed with the same rights as those born in Europe Q: Which of the following are noted by the authors as contributors to the "birth of Texas traditions?" - correct answer A: Both the Spanish and the French Q: The question of whether or not the United States should annex Texas, was most heavily influenced and delayed by - correct answer A: the issue of slavery Q: In the past Hispanics have been __________ in political conflict in Texas, and in the future they are likely to be __________. - correct answer A: losers; winners Q: Compared to national averages for all states Texas - correct answer A: has a larger economy. Q: Which Texas constitution met the demands of Radical Republicans in Congress? - correct answer A: Constitution of 1869.