Which of the following statements about the partisanship of African Americans in the pre-World War I period is most accurate?

a. African Americans remained loyal to the Democratic Party even though the party was not committed to civil rights.
b. African Americans were equally divided between the parties depending on their income and where they lived.
c. African Americans were loyal to the Republican Party because of Emancipation and Reconstruction.
d. The inability of African Americans to vote meant that they had no existing partisan attachments.


c. African Americans were loyal to the Republican Party because of Emancipation and Reconstruction.

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A. The Constitution states that anyone who is twenty-five years of age or older can become president. B. The oldest person elected president was John F. Kennedy. C. The youngest person to hold the office of president was William McKinley, who was forty-two when he became president. D. The youngest person elected president was Ronald Reagan, who assumed the presidency at the age of forty-three. E. The average age at the presidential inauguration has been fifty-five.

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When your city elected a new mayor, his goal was to influence legislators to make decisions favorable to your municipality; therefore, he chose to join the National League of Cities, which is

a. a public lobbying group. b. an economic lobbying group. c. an ideological lobbying group. d. an issue-based lobbying group. e. an intergovernmental lobbying group.

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The most commonly used level of statistical significant is ______.

A. p < .01 B. p < .05 C. p < .10 D. p > .01

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Whips serve what function?

a. toact as official spokespersons for their chambers b. tohelp the Speaker schedule proposed legislation for debate c. tomeet with members of the executive cabinet d. topersuade party members to support the party's priorities

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