_____________ refers to the ideology and practice of the state playing a leading role to foster economic development by sponsoring vigorous industrial policy

The first permanent resident Asian Americans in Texas were likely Chinese who immigrated to the state as laborers for

A) railroad construction. B) agriculture. C) cattle ranching. D) the tanning industry. E) road construction.

Independent school districts were created in Texas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to __________.

A. place schools under the local control of county and city governments B. insulate school governance from partisan politics C. prevent school officials from taxing the residents of these districts D. serve the special interests of a small number of influential people