The Federal Reserves controls ________________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: the regulating of interest rates on home mortgages and car loans.
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How does the amount of money an interest group has relate to its success?
a. Legislators are more likely to give access to well-funded interest groups. b. The more money an interest group has, the more activities and opportunities it can participate in. c. Limits on expenditures keep the success of interest groups equal. d. Money does not determine the success of interest groups.
Marginalization is . . .
a. The conquest and exploitation by the European states of poorer peoples and lands in Latin America, Africa, and Asia b. The forceful extension of a nation’s authority to other peoples by military, economic, and political domination c. The extraction of profits from the resources and labor of others in an unjust way d. The social process of making unimportant or powerless certain groups within a society, especially indigenous peoples and women
What was the primary cause for an increase in the public's support for a military invasion of Iraq during the six-month period leading to the start of the war?
A. grassroots efforts by conservative groups that argued it was necessary for greater national security B. mainstream media coverage of the actions of the Iraqi government C. the inability of the United Nations to discover strong evidence of weapons of mass destruction D. the Bush administration's efforts to press the case for war E. election-year posturing on national security issues by congressional candidates for office
The fight over the extension of slavery into the western territories and the resulting Civil War demonstrates that
a. some issues do not offer mutual gains through cooperation. b. politics is successful only when there are well-established political parties with a history of trust. c. the conformity costs were too low so Republicans refused to compromise on the issue of slavery. d. the lack of a focal point made coordination on the issue nearly impossible.