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| The U.S. Presidential elections takes place every 4 years on the.... |
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| the tuesday after the first monday in November. |
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| About____ percent of eligible Americans vote regularly. |
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| In general, voter turnout is higher among those who are... |
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| In 1971, voting age was lowered to 18 by the _____ Amendment. |
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| currently make up the majority of the U.S. electorate. |
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| The primary reason college students say they do not vote is that... |
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| they feel like their vote doesn't make a difference. |
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| The Voting Right Act of 1965.... |
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| bans any procedure that impinges upon minorities' right to vote. |
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| The most important reason why people don't vote is.... |
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| Voter registration in the United States... |
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| must be done by the individual. |
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According to the Motor Voter Act, individuals can register to vote...
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| by mail, at their state's DMV, or at a military recruitment office. |
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| The most powerful predictor of vote choice is... |
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| An important voting trend from the 1950s to the 1990s is.... |
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| Voting based on what a candidate says that they will do if elected is called... |
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| A primary in which only a party's registered voters are eligible to participate is most accurately called... |
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| The method of primary election that gives the political parties the greatest power is the ____ primary. |
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| The process that allows citizens to propose legislation and submit it to the electorate for popular vote is called... |
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| The procedure by which the state legislature offers proposed legislation for voter approval is called a |
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| In some states, incumbents can be removed from office in the middle of their term by a popular vote called a... |
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| Most states today choose their nominee for the president through... |
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| Critics of the presidential primary argue that.... |
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| the quality of participation in primaries is low. |
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| In recent years, states have had a tendency to choose early dates for their presidential primaries in order to gain influence in the process. This is called.... |
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| Delegates to both of the national party conventions are: |
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| wealthier and more educated than most Americans. |
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| The influence of television on the nominating conventions includes... |
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| scheduling key affairs for prime time. |
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| The Electoral College was designed to... |
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| produce a nonpartisan president. |
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| In the event that a single candidate does not get a majority of electoral votes, the Constitution states that the ______ decides the winner. |
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| Reapportionment has moved political power from the Northeast to the... |
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| Abolishing the Electoral College... |
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| would require a constitutional amendment. |
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| Congressional elections differ from those for the presidency because... |
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| most candidates are not well known. |
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| One of the reasons that congressional incumbents have an electoral advantage is... |
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| The most common reason for drawing gerrymandered districts is... |
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| Which of the following is NOT an explanation for why many incumbents loose reelections? |
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| During midterm elections held in the sixth year of a president's term, the president's party usually.... |
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| loses seats in both houses of Congress. |
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| Which of the following states did Barack Obama carry in the 2008 election? |
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| Voter turnout in the 2008 presidential election was____than in 2006. |
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| higher(62 percent of eligible citizens participating) |
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| A form of journalism popular in the late nineteenth century that featured pictures, comics, color, and sensationalized, oversimplified news coverage was called... |
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| President_______ was the first to use the radio as a medium to connect with the American public. |
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| Most people get their information about politics from... |
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| lampoons conservative news talk host Bill O' Reilly. |
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| Gavel-to-gavel coverage of House and Senate sessions is provided by... |
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| In 2008, young voters relied more heavily than older voters on which sources for news about the campaign? |
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| The Daily Show and the Internet |
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| The so-called news generation gap reveals that... |
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| those over 65 appear to be more interested in the news. |
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| Local television stations that carry the programming of a national network are called... |
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| Private ownership of the media in the United States is.. |
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| a mixed blessing, bringing market pressures that make various networks compete for viewers, and detrimental to diversity in the news as smaller stations are brought up. |
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| Media consolidation has... |
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| led to fewer owners in the media sphere. |
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| The nightly gaggle of "experts" and pundits on the news... |
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| has been found to have as much impact os reports from the field. |
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| Narrowcasting has resulted in... |
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| polarization of public opinion and targeting news programs to specific audiences. |
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| The rise of Spanish language television and news programing.... |
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| is an example of narrowcasting. |
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| The Federal Communications Commission is empowered with... |
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| regulating how much market share any individual company can have. |
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| Television and radio are regulated by the federal government because... |
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| the airwaves a public property . |
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| The Telecommunication Act of 1996 sought to... |
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| provide an optimal balance between corporate and consumer intrest. |
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| In________, also called the Pentagon Papers Case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that only rare circumstances would prior restraint of the press be permitted. |
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| New York Times Co. v. U.S. |
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| Embedded journalist were found to have... |
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| filed stories lacking context and relying on anecdotes. |
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| A______ is a live event where the president addresses the nation directly. |
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| A factor that permits the modern press to undertake character investigations is a ruling by the Supreme Court that public officials would have to prove actual malice to win a libel suit. This has made it very hard for public officials to sue for libel. The case was... |
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| New York Times v. Sullivan. |
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| President George W. Bush... |
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| held a record low number of press conferences. |
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| The president receives the majority of press coverage, and... |
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| much of it is unfavorable. |
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| The congressional press corps has more than____ members. |
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| The lion's share of the media's coverage of Congress is concentrated on.... |
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| the leadership in both houses. |
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| Some have argued that the press has... |
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| a liberal bias and a conservative bias. |
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| In elections, how much influence do the media have on the public? |
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| Which of the following is a media effect? |
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| The press has a much greater impact on certain topics, such as... |
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| events in foreign countries. |
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| The influences of news sources on public opinion are known as.... |
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| When covering campaigns, most journalists' deepest bias is... |
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| a bias to get to the bottom of a good story. |
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| James Madison's chief concern at the inception of the United States was... |
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| the formation of political factions. |
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| Citizen involvement in community groups increases social capital.... |
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| and is called civic virtue. |
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| Political scientist David Truman's theory explaining why interest groups form is called... |
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| Disturbance theory posits that... |
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| groups form to counter the activities of other groups. |
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| The pluralist interest group theorist argued that... |
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| political power is distributed among a wide array of competing interest groups. |
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| Common Cause, peace groups, environmental organizations, and other such groups are examples of____ interest groups. |
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| Business groups, labor unions, trade associations, and other such groups are examples of_____interest groups. |
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| Cities, counties, and states actively lobby to Congress to... |
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| obtain earmarks and obtain block grants. |
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| The Federal Election Campaign Act made PACs legal in... |
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| One of the most well-known public interest groups that focuses on good government is called.... |
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| The 60s and 70s were characterized by.... |
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| the rise of public interest groups. |
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| In 1978, a number if conservative groups began to form in response to the successes of a number of liberal interest groups in shaping and defining the public agenda during the previous decade. One such group formed by the Rev. Jerry Falwell was called the... |
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| The strong political clout of the AFL-CIO... |
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| is diminished in the aftermath if the defection of many member union. |
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| Interest groups play an important role in American politics because they.... |
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| provide an avenue for participation, increased representation, increasing public awareness of issues, and help frame the public agenda. |
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| The activities of groups and organizations that seek to influence legislation and persuade political leaders to support a group's positions is most accurately called... |
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| The most often used lobbying technique at both the state and national level is... |
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| testifying at legislative hearings. |
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| Almost all interest group lobbying includes.... |
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| contacting government officials. |
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| Lobbying the executive branch has become more important because... |
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| that branch is easier to lobby that the legislative branch. |
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| Interest groups lobby the federal courts through... |
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| sponsoring lawsuits and filing amicus curiae briefs and paying for trips for judges to attend " international conferences" |
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| What is a form of pressure group activity that attempts to influence policy by getting individuals to contact their representatives directly? |
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| Modern grassroots lobbying often involves... |
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| Radical protest activism... |
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| has a strong history in the United States. |
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| Legally sanctioned organizations that allow corporations, labor unions, and interest groups to raise money and make contributions to candidates in national elections are called... |
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| political action committees(PACs) |
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| Many interest groups become more directly involved in elections through... |
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| candidate recruitment, rating candidates and officeholders, getting out the vote, and endorsements. |
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| PACs often provide more than half of an incumbent member of Congress's campaign spending. |
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| Interest group ratings of representatives and senators.... |
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| help to reveal a member's ideology. |
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| In 2007, Congress passed the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act. Among its key provisions were all of the following EXCEPT.... |
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| a ban on tickets to sporting events. |
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| The Lobbying Disclosure Act requires that... |
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| lobbyists should be defined by the percentage of time spent on lobbying activities. |
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| The key provisions of the Ethics in Government Act.... |
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| deal with financial disclosure and employment after government service. |
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| President Bill Clinton sought to fulfill his promise of heath care reform care reform by creating a task force led by.... |
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| The intentional course of action followed by government in dealing with problems or matters of concern is called... |
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| is the first stage of the policy-making stage. |
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| A set of problems to which policy makers believe they should be attentive is called... |
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| The crafting of appropriate and acceptable proposed courses of action to ameliorate or resolve public problem is called... |
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| gives policies legal force. |
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| Most public policies are implemented by... |
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| Encouraging charitable giving through the use of tax deduction is an______technique. |
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| One important evaluator of public policy is the... |
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| Government Accountability Office. |
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| Social Security was created in... |
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| The Social Security Act's core... |
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| is its compulsory old-age insurance program funded jointly by the federal government and employer and employee contributions. |
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| Health-care policy in the U.S. began formally first at the_______to deal with sick and disabled seamen. |
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| Medicaid was designed to provide health care.... |
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| Income security programs intended to assist persons whose income falls below a designated level are called... |
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| President George W. Bush's efforts to privatize Social Security... |
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| were resonated well enough with the American public to support such dramatic change. |
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| The cost of Social Security.... |
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| are expected to exceed revenues around 2015 or shortly thereafter. |
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| Unemployment insurance payments.... |
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| vary dramatically by state. |
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| The initial purpose of the food stamp program was to... |
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| expand domestic markets for farm commodities. |
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| Three days after the September 11th attacks, President George W. Bush authorized... |
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| warrant-less eavesdropping on the telephone calls of some Americans. |
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| Americans tend to be very proud of their ability to take advantage of a situation; this is called.... |
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| The U.S. often avoided participation in foreign affairs through a foreign policy of... |
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| The strategy of opposing Soviet expansion with military forces, economic assistance, and political influence was known as... |
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| The conflict in_____caused Americans to question the policy of containment. |
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| Which president initially engaged in a relaxation of tensions with Soviets in the late 1960s? |
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| The reduction of tensions and increased contact between the United States and the Soviet Union beginning in the the 1960's was called... |
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| President Jimmy Carter actively pursued policies favoring... |
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| The policy that the U.S. would provide military assistance to anti-communist groups fighting against pro-Soviet governments was called the... |
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| In in 1991, the U.S. military attacked... |
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| President Bill Clinton adopted a policy of active U.S. involvement in international affairs called... |
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| On September 11, who attacked the United States? |
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| The policy of using preemptive military action against a perceived threat to U.S. interests is known as the... |
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| The relationship between the U.S. and the UN can be characterized by all of the following EXCEPT... |
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| The United Nations withholding money from the U.S. |
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| was begun over weapons of mass destruction. |
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| The______was created after after 9/11 to combat terrorism at home and abroad. |
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| Department of Homeland Security |
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| The U.S. accounts for_____precent of the world's total military spending. |
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| The Cold War ended when communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed in... |
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| Congress exerts control on foreign policy through all of the following except... |
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| approving all military deployment. |
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| President______warned against the development of a military-industrial complex. |
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| The______approach advocates the U.S. acting single-handedly to protect its own interests. |
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