Vocabulary
Meeting every 2 years
What is a Biennial Session?
Number of senators in the Texas Senate
What is 31?
The first group of people to land/settle in Texas
What are the Spaniards?
Number of economic regions in Texas
What is six?
In Latin, means per day
A northerner that moved South after the Civil War to gain a political advantage
What is a Carpetbagger?
The only person to call a special session for the Legislature
An discovery of oil in 1901
What is Spindletop?
The rank of land density of Texas out of all the United States
What is 2nd?
The number of amendments on the Texas constitution
What is 507?
Written laws enacted by legislatures
What are statues/statuary law?
The yearly salary for a Texas representative
What is $7,200?
The reason the US was hesitant to add Texas into the states
What is Texas was a slave state?
main source of revenue for Texas in the past
What is agriculture/cattle?
The year of an economical recession which laid off many teachers
What is 2008?
The replacement of individual members of a legislature from one session to the next
What is Legislative Turnover?
What is an Informal Requirement?
In 1861, when Texas removed itself from the United States
What is secession?
Most popular religion amongst Texas politicians
What is Protestant?
As of 2010, the percentage of Texans who live in rural areas
What is 15%?
The redrawing of district lines to gain a political advantage over an area
What is Gerrymandering?
Represented by one elected member to the legislative body
What is a single member district?
The victorious battle that had let Texas gain its independence
What is San Jacinto?
Texas main source of revenue as of today
What is computers/electronics?
The political culture that Texas identifies with
What is Individualistic/Traditionalistic/Combination of both?