POLS 2312 UTA -EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025/2026

POLS 2312 UTA -EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025/2026 first occupiers of Texas - Answers Native Americans for up to 10,000 years the first tribes to settle in Texas - Answers Caddo and Apache why was Texas popular for settlement - Answers plentiful hunting and farming land Caddos occupied land from - Answers Trinity River to Mississippi River and north to Red River Apache occupied - Answers south and west to the area now known as Big Bend the other two tribes - Answers Karankawa and Coahuiltecan these two tribes settled the - Answers coastal regions first explorers - Answers -Spanish: Alvar Nunez de Vaca -rescued near Galveston Island -Spain established missions, military bases and settlements throughout Texas and Mexico calling it New Spain Texans of Mexican heritage are called - Answers Tejanos most tejanos stayed out of the war between Texas and Mexico and preferred self governance called - Answers ayuntamiento tejanos who did not fight for Mexico were - Answers rewarded with land but their ancestral land was taken from them mexican govt promoted the ___ settlement in Texas - Answers Anglo who were these people - Answers american settlers why did mexicans support anglo settlement? - Answers raise revenue through taxes people who were granted the right to settle the land and recruit other settlers to come to Texas were called - Answers empersarios these settlements led to - Answers conflicts between Tejanos and Anglos if Texas were an independent nation today, our economy would rank - Answers 10th in the world our gross state product in 2017 was - Answers $1.7 trillion, 2nd highest in US texas is home to ___ of the top 50 companies on fortune 500 list - Answers 6 sources of texas economic strength - Answers 1. food and fiber(corn, cotton, timber) 2. fuel 3. cattle 4. manufacturing what is the texas miracle - Answers economic good fortune from 2001 to 2008. texas did not suffer from 2008 recession unlike other states due to the price of fuel half of the country's fastest growing cities - Answers Texas suburbs in 2016, Texas ranked ___ in energy consumption - Answers 6th fastest growing demographic in Texas - Answers Asians political culture - Answers set of shared values and practices held by people that informs their expectations of government and society do texans support death penalty - Answers 75% do Consitution - Answers a document that lays out the principles and responsibilities of government. Establishes the structure and rules for elected officials. bill of rights - Answers formal declaration of the rights of citizens social contract - Answers consent of the people to be governed and resign some freedoms in exchange for security and rights popular sovereignty - Answers the idea that all ultimate power rests with the people separation of powers - Answers power is divided between three branches plural executive - Answers power is divided amongst many statewide elected officials supremacy clause - Answers Federal law is supreme over state law (Article IV) statutes - Answers laws passed by states ordinances - Answers laws passed by local governments Coahuila y Tejas - Answers New state made up of Texas and the province of Coahuila (former Spanish provinces) Coahuila y Tejas Constitution (1827) - Answers Texas became part of Mexico - first constitution -very similar to the US constitution -separation of powers into 3 branches -freedom of speech -BUT established Catholicism as official religion -limited slavery roots of rebellion and declaration of independence for texas - Answers 1. citizens forced to adopt Catholicism 2. Stephen Austin incarcerated for no reason 3. no trial by jury 4. no public education system 5. dissolved congress of Coahuila y Tejas Texas Declaration of Independence (March 1836) or Constitution of the Republic - Answers - 2nd constitution -because demands were rejected -before Texas won the revolution -written quickly after battle of Alamo -included a declaration of rights -created strict separation of powers -no clergy allowed to hold office -citizens of Texas were in favor of joining US, but issue of slavery prevented this -slaves not allowed to be emancipated and all free slaves had to be sold back to slavery or leave who was elected president of texas - Answers Sam Houston New Constitution of Texas (1845) - Answers -James Polk was elected president of US -annexed Texas -had to construct a new constitution bc every state had to have one -remained very similar to 1836 version but all whites and Latino males were allowed to