The Continental Congress financed the Revolutionary War by ________
A. issuing a tax on farm goods
B. running a lottery
C. non-lottery gambling
D. borrowing money from the French
E. receiving grants from the federal government
B
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What is one of the reasons that interest groups have proliferated over the past half century?
a. Developments in technology made interest group activities easier. b. The increasing power of political parties led to more interest group formation. c. A decrease in the scope of government brought out interest groups seeking to protect their interests. d. Legal restrictions on lobbying activities were lifted as part of the New Deal.
Which of the following represents a weakness of dependency theory?
a. Fernando Cardoso's failure to turn around Brazil's economy after being elected president and relying heavily on dependency theory to guide his policies b. The phenomenon of "dual economies" in the Third World c. Failure to explain why some "peripheral" countries in East Asia grew faster than the United States and Europe in the 1980s and 1990s d. Attribution of the North-South divide to historical imperialism and the nature of capitalist globalization e. The inability to account for the failure of many poor countries to benefit from global economic liberalization to the extent that orthodox liberal economic theory predicted
In recent years, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have become more
A. popular than they have been in decades. B. willing to promote bipartisanship. C. ideologically polarized. D. like they were in the 1950s. E. None of these answers is correct.
Whereas the merit system begun by the Pendleton Act initially only affected 10 percent of federal executive branch employees, it now covers _____ percent.
a. 10% b. 20% c. 70% d. 90%