2024 Texas Government 2306 Exam 1 questions and answers all are graded A+

What were the notable products Mexico began exporting in larger numbers due to NAFTA? - AnswerAvocados, shoes, beer, and mangoes were exported however, the main focus should be on avocados and shoes What are the four geographic sections of Texas? - Answer-Basin and Range Province, Great Plains, Interior Lowlands, and Gulf Coastal Plains What is provincialism? - Answer-A narrow, limited, and self-interested view of the world often associated with rural values and notions of limited government What does the role of creative destruction play in our economy? - Answer-In our economy, different products have shaped the Texas economy in the last 150 years. Certain products were the main fuel to the economy and then creative destruction played its part and new ones revolutionized the economy and totally transformed the social norms of Texas. What is creative destruction? - Answer-the idea that as new economic and social worlds are created the old ones are destroyed. What are the trends of economic developments in Texas? - Answer-Cotton and cattle were the economic staples of Texas for many years. However, that changed when oil became the money maker of Texas. Currently, the Texas economy is shaped and supported by high-tech industries. How did NAFTA and the Great Recession affected Texas? - Answer-NAFTA's effect on Texas had its pros and cons. For example, the textbook states that over 55,000 jobs were lost in Texas due to NAFTA. NAFTA accelerated the diversification of the Texas economy. It is that diversified economy that limited the effect of the Great Recession on Texas. Gulf Coastal Plain - Answer-Political life grew out here, plantation life, oil boom, rural conservatives. North Central Plains/Interior lowlands - Answer-Agricultural economy, state's largest ranchesGreat Plains - Answer-ranching, petroleum, large scale irrigation from Ogallaia Aquifer Basin and Range Province - Answer-rio grande, population overwhelmingly Latino, Guadalupe Range