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________ is important because it effects how people in politics and how individuals and institutions interact.

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Political culture

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A belief that government is designed to promote the public good describes the ______ culture.

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Moralistic

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Traditionalistic political cultures, according to Daniel Elazar, are typically found in the

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South

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Political culture is a tem used to describe

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the broadly shared values and beliefs about government

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Which of the following best characterize traditional, individualistic political culture?

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Low taxes and deference to business leaders

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Which of the following is the best description of Texas political culture?

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Texas has multiple political culture within its boarders

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Which of the following does NOT reflect one of the historic characteristics that make up Texas political culture?

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The strong role of labor unions

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By _______, all major statewide elected offices in Texas were controlled by Republicans.

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2002

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Provincialism is best defines as

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A narrow view to the world

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Which of the following political groups have traditionally had the LEAST influence on Texas politics

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Labor unions

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Which of the following has traditionally dominated the political culture of Texas?

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Business interests

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Texas has four distinct physical regions EXCEPT

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The Interior Highlands

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Which economic industry does NOT originate in the Gulf Coast Plains region?

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Cattle raising

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Texas's political life grew out of which region?

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the Gulf Coastal Plains

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Houston is found in the Texas

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Gulf Coastal Plains

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Which city is located in the Great Plains region of Texas

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Lubbock

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Big Bend is found in what region of Texas?

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the Basin and Range Province

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Politically, urban areas and suburban areas in Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth can be characterized as _______ and ________ areas.

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Democratic: Republican

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Since late Twentieth and early twenty- first century, the Boarder region, including El Paso, McAllen, and Brownsville, has remained politically a _______bastion.

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Democratic Party

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Which technological change did NOT help define and redefine the Texas political economy over the last 150 years?

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The large scale irrigation from underwater reservoirs, particularly the Ogallala Aquifer

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________ is the system, common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, by which farmers would lent land and equipment in exchange for part of the profits.

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Sharecropping

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Who led the Grange and Populist movement of the late nineteenth century?

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Tenant farmers

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When in Texas history did cattle become big business?

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After the Civil War

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Which of the following did NOT contribute to the spread of cattle ranching in the nineteenth century?

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the antigrazing position of farm union

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Which event occurred at Spindletop, Texas

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Oil was discovered

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The regulation of oil and energy in Texas is performed by

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The Texas Railroad Commission

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________ was the chief economic product of Texas during the early twentieth century.

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Oil

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The largest royalty for Texas university endowment comes from which economic product?.

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Oil

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Which two Texas metropolitan area are national centers for the high-tech industry?

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Dallas and Austin

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Technological change in Texas is best evidenced by

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Development of a high-tech industry after a slump in oil prices.

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Which Texas metropolitan area is known worldwide for its medical center and expanding research facilities in the medical field?

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Houston

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What year was the North American Fair Trade Agreement (NAFTA) SIGNED

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1992

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NAFTA established

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Free trade between Mexico, the United States and Canada

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Which of the following contributed most to the increase in the population of Texas?

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natural increase to births in proportion to deaths

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Approximately what percentage of the current population in Texas us Hispanic?

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38%

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in 1944, the Supreme Court case Smith v. Allwright ended

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white primaries

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Which racial or ethic group in Texas is concentrated in East Texas?

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African Americans

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What was Stephen F. Austin's role in the development of Texas

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He worked with the Spanish government to bring American settlers into Texas.

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In 1950, the Supreme Court case Sweatt v. Painter

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Guaranteed African American admission to Texas's graduate and professional schools.

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Which city in Texas currently has the highest population?

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Houston

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Which of the following is NOT a function of the state constitution>

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To set the proper tax rates for sate and county authorities

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The system of distributing powers between states and central government is called?

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Federalism

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The supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution states that

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Laws passed by the national government are supreme over all state laws.

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Which event did NOT signal the break with Britain and the emergence of the United States as a confederate republic

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The bill of rights

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The current Texas Constitution borrowed all of the following from the Constitution of 1827 EXCEPT

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The establishment of Catholicism as the state religion.

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Which province of the 1836 Constitution was the most important adaption of Spanish-American Law for the Texas Republic

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The idea of community property

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The majority of delegates to the Convention of 1836 that drafted the Constitution for a newly independent Republic of Texas were from

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Slave-owning southern states.

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Texas became an independent republic in _________ and became part of the United States in ___________.

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1836: 1845

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The main problem that stalled the admission of Texas into the United States was

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That Texas would be a pro slavery state

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Which of the following was NOT part of the annexation agreement between Texas and the Unites States?

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Texas could maintain its own army and navy for twenty-five years

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_________ dominated the secession convention of 1861.

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Lawyers and slaveholders

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Which of the following statement about the Texas Constitution Convention of 1865 is FALSE?

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Texas had to return to the federal government part of Oklahoma seized by Texas Confederate soldiers

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Who were the Radical Republicans?

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Those Republicans after the Civil War who controlled Reconstruction policy in the former Confederate state

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The Texas Constitution of 1869 was created

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By members of the Texas Republican Party

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Which of the following statements best describes the post-Civil War governorship of E.J. Davis?

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Davis was a Republican who used the capitalized power of the governorship to maintain control over his regime.

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The domination of Texas politics by Republicans after the Civil War ended

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The Constitution of 1869

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What was Texas's most progressive constitution in terms of power and organization?

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The constitution of 1869

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Who made up the Grange, and what effect did they have on the writing of the Texas Constitution?

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They were an agriculture group who wanted a government that would improve the plight of farmers

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In what year was Texas's current constitution ratified

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1876

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What principle of government is the key to understanding the drafting of the Texas Constitution of 1876?

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The necessity of strong limitations on the authority of state officials

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The Mexican War of independence against ________ grew out of the _________

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Spain: Napoleonic Wars

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Which of the following statement best describes the structure of the Texas legislature?

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Since independence from Mexico , Texas has had a bicameral legislature.

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The Texas Constitution was written to

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Prevent the expansion of governmental authority and the return of a system of political power that was perceived as acting against the interest of the people

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Which of the following was NOT a goal for those writing the Texas Constitution?

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Giving independence to the judiciary by making all judges appointed, instead of elected

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What is the major difference between the bill of rights in the Texas Constitution and the U.S. Bill of Rights?

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The Texas Constitution grants Texans rights that are not found in the U.S. Constitution

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Which of the following describes a significant difference between the structures of the Texas executive department and the structures of the U.S. executive branch?

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In Texas, the executive department is made up of several elected offices, instead of just one.

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Under the Texas Constitution, who has the power of impeachment?

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The House of Representatives had the power to impeach, while the Senate has the power to try and convict.

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The Texas Constitution requires which of the following for amendment?

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A two-thirds vote in both houses of the state legislature and a majority vote from the voters of Texas

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The Texas Constitution is

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A long, complex, and detailed document

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In the United States, checks and balances allow each branch of government to limit the other branches and in so doing support the principle of

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Separation of powers

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The Texas Constitution Convention of 1974

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Failed to agree on proposed constitution

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What was the main criticism of the current Texas Constitution behind the Ratliff-Junell proposal for a new constitution

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The constitution was too restrictive and cumbersome for contemporary government.

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Which of the following is NOT a reason for the low level of voter turnout for constitutional amendment?

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Negative advertising in the media has had the effect of alienating possible voters

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The Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) ruled all of the following EXCEPT that

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Texas had to rewrite its voters ID law.

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________ percent of the world's population lives in the countries that are organized around a federal principle where there is a national government and regional government.

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Forty

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Congress gained the power to tax income through

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The Sixteenth Amendment

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Both the federal and state government obtained sovereignty directly from

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The consent of the people

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A defining characteristic of federalism is that

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Rather than being held exclusively or primarily by one body, governing authority is divided t different levels among several bodies.

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Which amendment was commonly referred to as the States' Rights Amendment?

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The Tenth Amendment

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During the nullification Crisis in 1833, South Carolina tried to assert the right to veto (or nullify)

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National legislation passed by Congress

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In the Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), Chief Justice John Marshall argued that

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The federal government had the right to charter a nation bank, and that state governments had no right to impede its functions through taxation.

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In his famous landmark cases, Chief Justice John Marshall generally

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Supported the authority of the federal government over that of state governments

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In the case of Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), the Supreme Court decided that

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The federal government's authority to regulate international and interstate commerce bestowed on it some power to regulate intrastate commerce.

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Which Supreme Court case in 1869 voted Texas's secession from the Union?

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Texas v. White

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According to the Tenth Amendment, any powers not delegated to the national government by the Constitution

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Belonged either the people or states

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Which of the following styles of federalism characterized the immediate pre-Civil War era?

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Dual Federalism

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Under the New Deal, federalism is frequently described as

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Cooperative Federalism

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For eligible participants, the Social Security Act of 1935 instituted all of the following EXCEPT

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Universal health care for all Americans

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During which of the following president's administration did the federal government's power, especially with regard to the economy, increase the most?

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Franklin Roosevelt

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The use of block grants, allowing states considerable leeway in how federal money is spent, was championed by President __________ under the name New Federalism

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Nixon

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A federal program that gives a state government federal funds to address a specific need but gives the state wide latitude in deciding how the funds will be spent is known as a

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Block grant

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Which of the following requires state governments to spend their own money to meet standards imposed on them by the federal government

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Unfunded mandates

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The supremacy clause, stipulated in Article VI of the following Constitution, holds that

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In a conflict between federal and state laws, the former will override the latter.

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Until a national database was created, background checks under the Brady Act were suspended following the Supreme Court's ruling in

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Printz v. United States

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

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Validated the Texas state- imposed racial segregation in public schools

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The legal doctrine at issue in the Plessy v. Ferguson case is the

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Separate but equal doctrine

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The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson in

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Brown v. Board of Education

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In the Brown v. Board of Education case, segregated school districts were ordered to

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Desegregate their schools with all deliberate seed

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In Plyer v. Doe, the Supreme Court held that Texas may not deny free public education to the children of illegal aliens. How did the courts justify its decision?

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The statute lacked a rational basis.

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As federal regulations became more intrusive, forcing states to change their policies in order to meet national goals, some people began calling our system a ___________ federalism.

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Coercive

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