Texas History
This empresario recruited Anglo settlers into Mexican Texas and became known as the "Father of Texas."
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
This political culture emphasizes personal responsibility and limited government
What is Individualistic Political Culture?
These powers are specifically listed in the U.S. Constitution.
What are Enumerated Powers?
This constitution governed Texas while it was part of Mexico.
What is the Constitution of Coahuila y Tejas (1827)?
This principle holds that all governmental power originates with the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This event resulted in Texas becoming an independent republic in 1836.
What is the Texas Revolution?
This political culture seeks to preserve the existing social order and is often associated with East Texas.
What is Traditionalistic Political Culture?
These powers belong to the states under the Tenth Amendment.
What are Reserved Powers?
This constitution established the Republic of Texas.
What is the Constitution of 1836?
This principle divides governmental authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
This former president of the Republic of Texas strongly supported annexation to the United States.
Who is Sam Houston?
Texas is generally described as a combination of these two political cultures.
What are Individualistic and Traditionalistic Political Cultures?
This clause establishes that valid federal law takes precedence over conflicting state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This constitution was adopted when Texas joined the United States.
What is the Constitution of 1845
This feature divides executive authority among several independently elected officials rather than concentrating power in the governor.
What is the Plural Executive?
This June 1865 event marked the public announcement of emancipation in Texas.
What is Juneteenth?
This feature divides executive authority among several independently elected officials rather than concentrating power in the governor.
What is the Plural Executive?
This type of federal grant provides funds for a specific purpose with specific restrictions.
What is a Categorical Grant?
This Reconstruction-era constitution significantly increased the governor's power and centralized state authority.
What is the Constitution of 1869?
Unlike the U.S. Constitution, this article appears first in the Texas Constitution and protects individual rights.
What is Article I, the Texas Bill of Rights?
This period of Texas history led directly to the writing of the Constitution of 1876 and helps explain Texans' distrust of centralized government.
What is Reconstruction?
Texas is generally described as a combination of these two political cultures.
What are Individualistic and Traditionalistic political cultures?
This occurs when the federal government requires states or local governments to perform a task but does not fund it.
What is an Unfunded Mandate?
This constitution remains in effect today and was written in reaction to the centralized authority of the Constitution of 1869.
What is the Constitution of 1876?
Many critics argue that the Texas Constitution requires frequent amendments for issues that ordinary legislation could handle. What characteristic of the document primarily causes this criticism?
Is the Texas Constitution highly detailed and restrictive?