Texas Government 2306 chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 questions n answers 2023/2024

government - correct answer the system by which a state or community is governed politics - correct answer the practice and theory of influencing other people political culture - correct answer broadly shared values, beliefs, and attitudes about how the government should function and politics should operate; American political culture emphasizes the values of liberty, equality, and democracy moralistic political culture (definition) - correct answer the belief that government should be active in promoting the public good and that citizens should participate in politics and civic activities to ensure that good individualistic political culture (definition) - correct answer the belief that government should limit its role to providing order in society, so that citizens can pursue their economic self-interests traditionalistic political culture (definition) - correct answer the belief that government should be dominated by political elites and guided by tradition provincialism - correct answer a narrow, limited, and self-interested view of the world often associated with rural values and notions of limited government North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - correct answer trade treaty among the United States, Canada, and Mexico to lower and eliminate tariffs among the three countries impresario - correct answer an individual who promotes, organizes, or helps to finance a particular endeavor poll tax - correct answer a state-imposed tax on voters as a prerequisite for voting; poll taxes were rendered unconstitutional in national elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, and in state elections by the Supreme Court in 1966. urbanization - correct answer the process by which people move from rural areas to cities In terms of area, how does Texas rank among the 50 states? - correct answer Second to California. 268,601 sq. miles Which of Texas's physical regions is characterized by the presence of many of the state's largest ranches? - correct answer Interior Lowlands Which of Texas's physical regions is found in the western-most part of Texas? - correct answer Pine Belt Creative destruction - correct answer creates new economies and destroys old ones. Which industry controlled the politics and economy of Texas for most of the twentieth century? - correct answer oil Fracking and horizontal drilling have - correct answer reinvigorated Texas's oil industry. Unlike earlier eras, the Texas economy of the twenty-first century features - correct answer computers, electronics, and other high-tech products. NAFTA refers to - correct answer an international trade agreement. What is meant by the "Great Recession"? - correct answer a time of chronic economic problems beginning in late 2007 that drew analogies to the Great Depression of the 1930's Which of the following accounts for most of Texas's population growth? - correct answer natural increases as a result of the differences between births and deaths