American Government Test 2

Front 1

Name three professional associations

Back 1

Ama (American Medical association), national educarion associassion, American Bar association.

Front 2

What are the goals of elected officials?

Back 2

Name recognition, reeelection, good policy

Front 3

According to responsible parties theory do cantina test self recruit to run for office?

Back 3

No

Front 4

How many senators does it take to defeat a filibuster?

Back 4

60

Front 5

What is the halo effect?

Back 5

When respondents give socially acceptable answers to surveys

Front 6

Compared to foreign interest groups American interest groups are

Back 6

More powerful

Front 7

What did the Republican coalition consist of?

Back 7

Social conservatives, dixiecrats, economic conservatives

Front 8

What are considered the gate keepers of legislation in congress?

Back 8

Committees

Front 9

Who argued that presidency should be a bully pulpit?

Back 9

Theodore Roosevelt

Front 10

Peta is a

Back 10

Single issue group

Front 11

What is grass roots mobilization?

Back 11

When interest groups appeal to a congressional members voters in hopes that they will put pressure on a politician

Hint 11

Example nra telling you to thank your senator for shooting down a policy on guns

Front 12

Who created the spoils system

Back 12

Andrew Jackson

Front 13

Who is the weakest interest group and why?

Back 13

Labor unions, because of outsourcing.

Front 14

Who was the president when the great depression began?

Back 14

Hoover

Front 15

Charisma is an example of what leadership

Back 15

Transformational

Front 16

What type of interest group co tributes the most to political campaigns?

Back 16

Business and trade organizations

Hint 16

Walmart, exxon

Front 17

What did the 1800 presidential election set precedent for?

Back 17

Peaceful transfer of power between parties

Front 18

What political party did George Washington belong to?

Back 18

Federalist

Front 19

What type of primary system is used in West Virginia?

Back 19

Closed Primary

Front 20

In the restraunt analogy, bureaucratic agencies were best described as

Back 20

Chefs/Waiters

Front 21

What three people ran in the 1912 Election?

Back 21

Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft

Front 22

T or F

Low income people vote more than high income people

Back 22

F

Front 23

Who is the most powerful person in the senate?

Back 23

The majority leader of the senate

Front 24

Who is the most powerful person in congress?

Back 24

The speaker of the house

Front 25

what is the free rider problem?

Back 25

a thorey that people will not join a group if the benifit of the group is already being provided

Front 26

are the united states political parties weaker or stronger than other countries?

Back 26

Weaker

Front 27

what did the 15th amendment do?

Back 27

gave black men the right to vote

Front 28

What committe do both members from the house and the senate take part in?

Back 28

Conferance committee

Front 29

What is the inefficancy of leadership problem?

Back 29

The theory that group do not neccessarily become more efficent as they grow larger

Front 30

What was the first Jim Crow law that was passed and where was in passed?

Back 30

Georgia,

Poll tax

Front 31

The spoils system was eliminated after the assasination of?

Back 31

President Garfield

Hint 31

an orange cartoon cat

Front 32

Smith vs Allwright made what unconstitutional?

Back 32

White primaries

Front 33

The republican party was born as a protest part to what?

Back 33

Slavery

Front 34

What was the first step in making elections more democratic?

Back 34

eliminating property Qualifications

Front 35

What groups made up the Democratic Coalition?

Back 35

Jews, Catholics, Farmers

Front 36

How many members are there in congress?

Back 36

535

Front 37

For a bill the have the best chance in the house it would need a....

Back 37

Restricted rule

Front 38

Due to a lack of a rules commitee every bill in the senate essentially has an...

Back 38

Open rule

Front 39

Who is the weakest actor in the Iron triangle?

Back 39

Buereaucratic Agencies

Front 40

What did the 24th ammendment ban?

Back 40

poll taxes

Front 41

over time how has participation become more democratic?

Back 41

Beginning

National

White

Male

21

State

all of above plus a landowner

Now

American Citizen

Over 18

Can't be a felon

Front 42

What is the spoils system?

Back 42

If you voted demo/ Repub they would give you a job

acted as unemployment agencies

Front 43

13, 14, 15th amendments

Back 43

slavery, citizens, vote

Front 44

In what two ways do jim crow laws target voters?

Back 44

Registaring to vote

and Voting

Front 45

The civil rights act of 1964 got rid of jim crow laws targeting

Back 45

registration

Front 46

The voting rights act targets what kind of jim crow laws

Back 46

actual voting laws

Front 47

what shapes our political views?

Back 47

family, religion, race, gender, geography, age, education

Front 48

Who votes

Back 48

old wealthy republicans white people more educated people

Front 49

who doesnt vote?

Back 49

young poor democrats minoritys less educated

Front 50

does responsible parties theory apply to us parties?

Back 50

no