Texas Government Questions with CORRECT Answers (Verified Update)
Q1: What is the most important communication tool during a campaign?
Answer: Television Ads
Q2: According to studies, negative commercials...
Answer: Draw voter preference away from the candidate being attacked
Q3: Organizations created to collect and distribute contributions to political campaigns are
referred to as...
Answer: Political Action Committees
Q4: What is false about the Campaign reform act of 2002?
Answer: It applies to candidates running for a seat in the Texas legislature.
Q5: In which case did the Supreme Court overturn a ban on unlimited independent expenditures
made by corporations, unions, and nonprofit organizations in federal elections?
Answer: Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission (2010)
Q6: Are there disclosure requirements on candidates given by the campaign finance regulations
for state offices?
Answer: Yes
Q7: As a percentage, Texas' Latino population is...
Answer: More than half of the state's total population
Q8: The Raza Unida Party was founded by several Latino leaders including...
Answer: Jose Angel Guiterrez
Q9: What is most likely the reason that the Raza Unida did not continue to be politically
effective?
Answer: The Texas Democratic Party has adopted issues appealing to Hispanic voters
Q10: The Latino community showed its political strength in May of 2010 by...
Answer: Having 28,000 protesters in Dallas opposing the Arizona immigration law
, Q11: What percentage of Texas' African American citizens say that they are Democrats?
Answer: 80%
Q12: For most Texans, their principal political activity consists of...
Answer: Voting in elections
Q13: The ability of almost all citizens 18 years of age and older to vote is referred to as...
Answer: Universal suffrage
Q14: Literacy tests were implemented to ensure that...
Answer: Minorities could not vote
Q15: Which amendments to the United States Constitution were intended to prevent denial of the
right to vote for African Americans?
Answer: Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Q16: In the United States Supreme Court case of Guinn vs. United States (1915), the court ruled
that
Answer: The grandfather clause was illegal
Q17: Which United States amendment prevents states from requiring payment of a poll tax as a
condition for voting?
Answer: 24th amendment
Q18: A device used in Texas to prevent many lower-income persons and blacks from voting during
much of the twentieth century was the
Answer: Poll Tax
Q19: During the first half of the twentieth century, large numbers of African American voters were
disqualified from voting as a result of...
Answer: Literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather clauses.
Q20: Texas employed what methods at one time or another during the twentieth century to deny
the vote to large groups of people?
Answer: Literacy tests, poll taxes and white primaries
Q1: What is the most important communication tool during a campaign?
Answer: Television Ads
Q2: According to studies, negative commercials...
Answer: Draw voter preference away from the candidate being attacked
Q3: Organizations created to collect and distribute contributions to political campaigns are
referred to as...
Answer: Political Action Committees
Q4: What is false about the Campaign reform act of 2002?
Answer: It applies to candidates running for a seat in the Texas legislature.
Q5: In which case did the Supreme Court overturn a ban on unlimited independent expenditures
made by corporations, unions, and nonprofit organizations in federal elections?
Answer: Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission (2010)
Q6: Are there disclosure requirements on candidates given by the campaign finance regulations
for state offices?
Answer: Yes
Q7: As a percentage, Texas' Latino population is...
Answer: More than half of the state's total population
Q8: The Raza Unida Party was founded by several Latino leaders including...
Answer: Jose Angel Guiterrez
Q9: What is most likely the reason that the Raza Unida did not continue to be politically
effective?
Answer: The Texas Democratic Party has adopted issues appealing to Hispanic voters
Q10: The Latino community showed its political strength in May of 2010 by...
Answer: Having 28,000 protesters in Dallas opposing the Arizona immigration law
, Q11: What percentage of Texas' African American citizens say that they are Democrats?
Answer: 80%
Q12: For most Texans, their principal political activity consists of...
Answer: Voting in elections
Q13: The ability of almost all citizens 18 years of age and older to vote is referred to as...
Answer: Universal suffrage
Q14: Literacy tests were implemented to ensure that...
Answer: Minorities could not vote
Q15: Which amendments to the United States Constitution were intended to prevent denial of the
right to vote for African Americans?
Answer: Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Q16: In the United States Supreme Court case of Guinn vs. United States (1915), the court ruled
that
Answer: The grandfather clause was illegal
Q17: Which United States amendment prevents states from requiring payment of a poll tax as a
condition for voting?
Answer: 24th amendment
Q18: A device used in Texas to prevent many lower-income persons and blacks from voting during
much of the twentieth century was the
Answer: Poll Tax
Q19: During the first half of the twentieth century, large numbers of African American voters were
disqualified from voting as a result of...
Answer: Literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather clauses.
Q20: Texas employed what methods at one time or another during the twentieth century to deny
the vote to large groups of people?
Answer: Literacy tests, poll taxes and white primaries
