What are colonias?
a. Mexican factories that have high death rates due to poor working conditions.
b. rural, unincorporated slums on the Texas side of the border that have substandard housing, roads, drainage, water, and sewer systems
c. poor factory workers who work long hours for little pay
d. several health epidemics that have broken out in South Texas due to poor sanitation
Answer:b
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Cabinet departments are
A. created by the president and report directly to the president. B. created by Congress, but report directly to the president. C. created by the president, but report directly to Congress. D. created by Congress and report directly to Congress. E. created by other departments of the bureaucracy to serve unfulfilled needs.
Although a convoluted concept, as a device, the Electoral College is designed to do which of the following?
a. mix state, congressional, and popular participation in the election process b. limit the ability of a majority to elect a president c. give the Senate the final say in presidential elections d. ensure that the Supreme Court resolves any controversy over presidential elections
Which of the following is an example of a faction?
a. the media b. an interest group c. the legislature d. the executive branch
Periods of realignment may be ushered in by ______, which signal a change either in the balance of power between two major parties or the emergence of a new party system.
a. essential events b. critical elections c. periods of polarization d. systems of innovation