TEXAS GOVERNMENT 2306 LATEST 2026 EVALUATION
TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔What is meant by the "Great Recession"? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔natural
increases as a result of the differences between births and deaths
✔✔True of False?
San Antonio has a larger white population that Latino. - ✔✔False
✔✔The three major metropolitan areas in Texas are - ✔✔Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth,
and San Antonio.
✔✔Texas politics is shaped by the state geography, such as - ✔✔size, location, natural
resources
✔✔True of False?
Texas shares the largest boarder with a foreign country - ✔✔True
✔✔What is the population of Texas? - ✔✔26 million
✔✔moralistic political culture (key beliefs) - ✔✔-rooted in New England Puritanism
-the common good (expressed through politics) is everyones concern
-government should promote the public good
-Example states: MN, IA, WI, CA, WA, ME, VT, NH
✔✔individualistic political culture (key beliefs) - ✔✔-focuses more on commercial
success
-government should provide order and protect property
-bureaucracy viewed as interference
-less concern for mass participation in politics
-Example states: NY, PA, OH, IL, NV, TX
✔✔traditionalistic political culture (key beliefs) - ✔✔-rooted in plantation values of social
hierarchy
-focused on tradition and maintaining existing social order (keep standing
arrangements)
-politics engaged in by established wealthy families
-Example states: TX, AZ, FL, MS, AL
✔✔True of False?
,Texas is both individualistic and traditionalistic. - ✔✔True. Some states are a blend of
both.
✔✔Texas: traditionalistic-individualistic mix: - ✔✔-Due to long lasting patterns in state:
a. the one party system (has changed)
b. provincialism (has changed)
c. business dominance (still true)
✔✔business dominance in Texas - ✔✔-unions are mostly absent
-consumers are environmental concerns not especially influential
✔✔provincialism in Texas - ✔✔-associated with Jeffersonian notions of limited
government and rural values
-low spending on social services and education
-intolerant of social hierarchy challenges, diversity
✔✔Population in 2010:
-Anglo:
-African American:
-Hispanic:
-Other: - ✔✔-25,146,000
-47%
-11%
-37%
-5%
✔✔Constitution - ✔✔the legal structure/framework of government, which establishes its
power and authority as well as the limits of power
✔✔Roles of Constitution - ✔✔-define political institutions
*Separation of Powers
-delegate power
-prevent the concentration of power
*Checks and Balances
-define the limits of power
✔✔Three sources of population growth is Texas - ✔✔-natural increase
-international immigration (outside the U.S.)
-domestic immigration (one U.S. state to another)
✔✔separation of powers - ✔✔the division of governmental power among several
institutions that must cooperate in decision making
✔✔checks and balances - ✔✔the constitutional idea that overlapping power is given to
different branches of government to limit the concentration of power in any one branch
, ✔✔tyranny - ✔✔according to James Madison, the concentration of power in any one
branch of government
✔✔federalism - ✔✔a system of government in which power is divided, by a constitution,
between a central government and regional governments
✔✔supremacy clause - ✔✔Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, which states that the
Constitution and laws passed by the national governments and all treaties are the
supreme law of the land and superior to all laws adopted by any state or any subdivision
✔✔necessary and proper clause - ✔✔Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution; it
provides Congress with the authority to make all laws "necessary and proper" to carry
out its powers
✔✔unicameral - ✔✔comprising one body or house, as in a one-house legislature
✔✔bicameral - ✔✔having a legislative assembly composed of two chambers or houses
✔✔Confederacy - ✔✔the Confederate States of America, those southern states that
seceded from the United States in late 1860 and 1861 and argued that the power of the
states was more important than the power of the central government
✔✔Radical Republicans - ✔✔a bloc of Republicans in the U.S. Congress who pushed
through the adoption of black suffrage as well as an extended period of military
occupation of the South following the Civil War
✔✔Grange - ✔✔a militant farmer's movement of the late nineteenth century that fought
for improved conditions for farmers
✔✔limited government - ✔✔a principle of constitutional government; a government
whose powers are defined and limited by a constitution
✔✔republican government - ✔✔a representative democracy, a system of government in
which power is derived from the people
✔✔plural executive - ✔✔an executive branch in which power is fragmented because the
election of statewide officeholders is independent of the election of the governor
✔✔impeachment - ✔✔under the Texas Constitution, the formal charge by the House of
Representatives that leads to trial in the Senate and possible removal of a state official
✔✔What idea is contained in both the U.S. and Texas constitutions? - ✔✔separation of
powers
TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔What is meant by the "Great Recession"? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔natural
increases as a result of the differences between births and deaths
✔✔True of False?
San Antonio has a larger white population that Latino. - ✔✔False
✔✔The three major metropolitan areas in Texas are - ✔✔Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth,
and San Antonio.
✔✔Texas politics is shaped by the state geography, such as - ✔✔size, location, natural
resources
✔✔True of False?
Texas shares the largest boarder with a foreign country - ✔✔True
✔✔What is the population of Texas? - ✔✔26 million
✔✔moralistic political culture (key beliefs) - ✔✔-rooted in New England Puritanism
-the common good (expressed through politics) is everyones concern
-government should promote the public good
-Example states: MN, IA, WI, CA, WA, ME, VT, NH
✔✔individualistic political culture (key beliefs) - ✔✔-focuses more on commercial
success
-government should provide order and protect property
-bureaucracy viewed as interference
-less concern for mass participation in politics
-Example states: NY, PA, OH, IL, NV, TX
✔✔traditionalistic political culture (key beliefs) - ✔✔-rooted in plantation values of social
hierarchy
-focused on tradition and maintaining existing social order (keep standing
arrangements)
-politics engaged in by established wealthy families
-Example states: TX, AZ, FL, MS, AL
✔✔True of False?
,Texas is both individualistic and traditionalistic. - ✔✔True. Some states are a blend of
both.
✔✔Texas: traditionalistic-individualistic mix: - ✔✔-Due to long lasting patterns in state:
a. the one party system (has changed)
b. provincialism (has changed)
c. business dominance (still true)
✔✔business dominance in Texas - ✔✔-unions are mostly absent
-consumers are environmental concerns not especially influential
✔✔provincialism in Texas - ✔✔-associated with Jeffersonian notions of limited
government and rural values
-low spending on social services and education
-intolerant of social hierarchy challenges, diversity
✔✔Population in 2010:
-Anglo:
-African American:
-Hispanic:
-Other: - ✔✔-25,146,000
-47%
-11%
-37%
-5%
✔✔Constitution - ✔✔the legal structure/framework of government, which establishes its
power and authority as well as the limits of power
✔✔Roles of Constitution - ✔✔-define political institutions
*Separation of Powers
-delegate power
-prevent the concentration of power
*Checks and Balances
-define the limits of power
✔✔Three sources of population growth is Texas - ✔✔-natural increase
-international immigration (outside the U.S.)
-domestic immigration (one U.S. state to another)
✔✔separation of powers - ✔✔the division of governmental power among several
institutions that must cooperate in decision making
✔✔checks and balances - ✔✔the constitutional idea that overlapping power is given to
different branches of government to limit the concentration of power in any one branch
, ✔✔tyranny - ✔✔according to James Madison, the concentration of power in any one
branch of government
✔✔federalism - ✔✔a system of government in which power is divided, by a constitution,
between a central government and regional governments
✔✔supremacy clause - ✔✔Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, which states that the
Constitution and laws passed by the national governments and all treaties are the
supreme law of the land and superior to all laws adopted by any state or any subdivision
✔✔necessary and proper clause - ✔✔Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution; it
provides Congress with the authority to make all laws "necessary and proper" to carry
out its powers
✔✔unicameral - ✔✔comprising one body or house, as in a one-house legislature
✔✔bicameral - ✔✔having a legislative assembly composed of two chambers or houses
✔✔Confederacy - ✔✔the Confederate States of America, those southern states that
seceded from the United States in late 1860 and 1861 and argued that the power of the
states was more important than the power of the central government
✔✔Radical Republicans - ✔✔a bloc of Republicans in the U.S. Congress who pushed
through the adoption of black suffrage as well as an extended period of military
occupation of the South following the Civil War
✔✔Grange - ✔✔a militant farmer's movement of the late nineteenth century that fought
for improved conditions for farmers
✔✔limited government - ✔✔a principle of constitutional government; a government
whose powers are defined and limited by a constitution
✔✔republican government - ✔✔a representative democracy, a system of government in
which power is derived from the people
✔✔plural executive - ✔✔an executive branch in which power is fragmented because the
election of statewide officeholders is independent of the election of the governor
✔✔impeachment - ✔✔under the Texas Constitution, the formal charge by the House of
Representatives that leads to trial in the Senate and possible removal of a state official
✔✔What idea is contained in both the U.S. and Texas constitutions? - ✔✔separation of
powers
