______ receives about 65 percent of the federal funds that are transferred to state governments.
a. Education
b. Medicaid
c. Medicare
d. Social Security
b. Medicaid
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Pollution that can be traced to a chemical company's discharge into a waterway is:
A. point source pollution. B. diffused pollution. C. thermal pollution. D. exempt from state regulation.
Governors and legislators became increasingly insistent in the 1990s that state colleges and universities be held accountable for the performances of their students, prompting public higher educational
administrators to pay greater attention to the development of new ways of assessing student achievement. Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Governance in which one party controls both the White House and both houses of Congress is referred to as what?
a. unified government b. checks and balances c. divided government d. autocracy
Many of the most ardent abolitionists who advocated an end to slavery still saw a distinction between economic rights, to which they felt African Americans were entitled, and political rights. How did they justify such a distinction in their minds?
a. Political rights, including suffrage, were somehow not viewed as natural entitlements. b. Economic factors made money for the abolitionists while political factors did not. c. Many abolitionists believed that economic freedom would come first, and then political freedom would follow. d. The abolitionists believed that slaves should be free to determine basic destinies, such as where they live and work, but they believed that African Americans would never win a political office and should be denied the right to vote. e. The abolitionists really only wanted partial freedoms for the slaves.