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MULTIPLE CHOICE
2. Which of the following ideas does NOT unite the U.S. and Texas constitutional experiences?
a. Political power in both the United States and Texas is derived from the people.
b. Political power is divided by both the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitutions into
three separate parts and placed in separate branches of government.
c. The idea of individual rights.
d. The subordinate role that Texas has in the federal system.
ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: The Role of a State Constitution
OBJ: Identify the main functions of state constitutions MSC: Understanding
3. What does the Texas Constitution contain that the U.S. Constitution does not?
a. Bill of Rights c. supremacy clause
b. separation of powers d. equal rights amendment
ANS: D DIF: Difficult REF: The Role of a State Constitution
OBJ: Identify the main functions of state constitutions MSC: Understanding
4. The system of distributing powers between states and a central government is called
a. federalism. c. constitutionalism.
b. separation of powers. d. filtration.
ANS: A DIF: Easy REF: The Role of a State Constitution
OBJ: Identify the main functions of state constitutions MSC: Remembering
8. The current Texas Constitution borrowed all of the following from the Constitution of 1827
EXCEPT
a. the establishment of Catholicism as the state religion.
b. a guarantee of citizens’ rights to liberty, security, property, and equality.
c. the curtailment of the spread of slavery.
d. the legislature’s order to promote education.
ANS: A DIF: Difficult REF: The Texas Constitutions: 1836–1876
OBJ: Describe the six Texas constitutions and their role in Texas political life
MSC: Analyzing
9. Which provision of the 1836 Constitution was the most important adaptation of Spanish-American
Law for the Texas Republic?
a. the idea of community property c. a four-tiered judicial system
b. a bicameral legislature d. a system of checks and balances
ANS: A DIF: Difficult REF: The Texas Constitutions: 1836–1876
OBJ: Describe the six Texas constitutions and their role in Texas political life
MSC: Understanding
10. Texas became an independent republic in ________ and became part of the United States in
________.
a. 1827; 1861 c. 1836; 1845
b. 1827; 1869 d. 1845; 1876
ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: The Texas Constitutions: 1836–1876
OBJ: Describe the six Texas constitutions and their role in Texas political life
MSC: Understanding
11. The main problem that stalled the admission of Texas into the United States was
a. the lack of enough people in Texas.
b. Texas’s overly large debt, which would have to be assumed by the federal government.
c. that Texas would be a proslavery state.
d. that foreign nations had refused to recognize an independent Texas.
ANS: C DIF: Easy REF: The Texas Constitutions: 1836–1876
OBJ: Describe the six Texas constitutions and their role in Texas political life
MSC: Applying
12. Which of the following was NOT part of the annexation agreement between Texas and the United
States?
a. Texas could divide itself into as many as five separate states.
b. Texas was responsible for paying all foreign debts it incurred while independent.
c. Texas could maintain its own army and navy for 25 years.
d. Texas would retain title to its public lands.
ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: The Texas Constitutions: 1836–1876
OBJ: Describe the six Texas constitutions and their role in Texas political life
MSC: Analyzing
14. Which of the following statements about the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1865 is FALSE?
a. Texas had to accept the abolition of slavery.
b. Texas had to repudiate the war debt incurred by the state.
c. Texas had to return to the federal government parts of Oklahoma seized by Texas
Confederate soldiers.
d. The state had to formally reject the right of secession.
ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: The Texas Constitutions: 1836–1876
OBJ: Describe the six Texas constitutions and their role in Texas political life
MSC: Evaluating
18. Which statement best describes the post–Civil War governorship of E. J. Davis?
a. Davis was a Democratic Confederate sympathizer who frequently clashed with the federal
Congress.
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