Quiz 1

Question 1

Traditionalist Culture

Answer 1

Support the social and political status quo –> resist change

Question 2

Moralistic Culture

Answer 2

The idea that the government should do what’s best for everyone

Question 3

Individual Political Culture

Answer 3

Primacy of the individual in making decisions for their own life. Self-determination

Question 4

Estelle vs. Ruiz

Answer 4

Supreme Case where Texas was cited as having prison conditions that violated the 8th Amendment

Question 5

Republic of Texas

Answer 5

Created after the Texas -Mexico War- About a 10 years period when Texas was an independent country

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1846 US-Mexico War

Answer 6

Resulted in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 7

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Answer 7

Texas becomes a state, The US Mexico border set at the Rio Grande River, Mexico compensated for the land

Question 8

1876 Constitution

Answer 8

Poorly written and organized, written in reaction to the abuses of Reconstruction Era Governor E.J. Davis

Question 9

E. J. Davis

Answer 9

“crooked”, abusive and corrupt Reconstruction Era governor of Texas

Question 10

Right to own firearms

Answer 10

Citizens have an individual right to keep guns for protection of self, home and property

Question 11

1810 Mexican Revolution

Answer 11

Campesino revolution started by a priest against Spanish rule

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1821

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Mexican Independence from Spain

Question 13

Ideology

Answer 13

A set of ideas about what the government is, and should be

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1836 TX-Mexico War

Answer 14

Resulted in Texas becoming an independent republic

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Reconstruction Era

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Era directly following the Civil War, from 1865 to 1877

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Castle Doctrine

Answer 16

Texans may use deadly force when protecting home and property at their house

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Article I (TX)

Answer 17

Texas Bill of Rights

Question 18

Sportsmen’s Amendments

Answer 18

Citizens have right to hunt, fish, harvest wildlife and access lakes and beaches

Question 19

1989 TX vs. Johnson

Answer 19

Flag burning case where a Texas law prohibiting flag burning was overturned as violating the First Amendment —> symbolic speech

Question 20

Religious freedom

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Freedom of worship

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Amendment process for the TX Constitution

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Proposal requires 2/3 of both houses of the legislature. Ratification requires a majority popular vote (public vote)

Question 22

Funding for Religious Institutions

Answer 22

For clear secular purposes

Question 23

Obergafell vs. Hodges

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Supreme Court ruling that states must issue same sex marriage licenses and allow gay folks to get married

Question 24

2022 Dobbs vs. Jackson

Answer 24

Overturned Roe vs. Wade, allows states to criminalize abortion

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1990 Casey vs. Planned Parenthood

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Allows states to place regulations on access to abortion services so long as the regulations place no “undue burden” on women seeking reproductive health services

Question 26

Los Cinco

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5 Mexican-American who were elected to city council in Crystal City, TX and subsequently harassed and threatened by the Texas Rangers and white members of the community

Question 27

La Raza Unida

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A political party formed in Crystal City, TX by Jose Angel Gutierrez to advance the interests of Mexican Americans

Question 28

24th Amendment

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Prohibits poll taxes

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1947 Mendez vs. Westminster

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First desegregation case that desegrated schools in the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

Question 30

Chicano Movement

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A movement of Mexican Americans in California that emphasized that Mexican-Americans are a unique civilization of people

Question 31

1954 Hernandez vs. Texas

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Landmark Supreme Court case that established non-discrimination in public proceedings (like court for example)

Question 32

GI Forum

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Organization that advocates for fair treatment of veterans after Felix Longoria was denied burial in his home town because the cemetery was segregated

Question 33

Recognition

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When a group’s history, culture, heritage, creed and unique contributions to the country are acknowledged by society

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Multiculturalism

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The idea that all cultures are equal, and tolerated equally in society

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Plessy vs Ferguson

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The infamous “separate but equal” decision by the Supreme Court in 1896 upholding the constitutionality of segregation

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Brown vs. Board

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Desegregates all public schools --> segregation is “inherently unequal”.

Question 37

Article III

Answer 37

Establishes the structure and powers of the Texas Legislature

Question 38

Article IV

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Creates the Texas plural executive branch

Question 39

Article V

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Texas Courts

Question 40

Amendments

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Proposal phase: 2/3 of both houses of the legislature must vote in favor of proposing and amendment. Ratification Phase: A majority popular vote of TX citizens is required for approval

Question 41

LULAC

Answer 41

The League of United Latin American Citizens founded in 1929, helps economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, housing, health, and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs

Question 41

White vs. Regester 1972

Answer 41

Bexar County voting district violated the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights of Mexican American voters.