In 1883, Congress passed the ________, which began to move the federal government from the spoils system to the merit system
A. Taft-Hartley Act
B. Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
C. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
D. Affordable Care Act
E. Morrill Act
B
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Statistics help clarify the causes and effects of political decisions. 2. The scientific method is used to prove the relationship between two variables. 3. The dependent variable is the cause which affects the effect, which is also known as the independent variable. 4. The numerical characteristics of a full population are referred to as descriptive statistics. 5. Measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion are examples of univariate statistics.
Although interest groups are representative of a democracy, the representatives of interest groups often draw their membership from __________ and so reflect their biases
a. every level of society b. elite levels of society c. the government d. academia
Which of the following is NOT a statutory law?
a. the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution b. the 1964 Civil Rights Act c. the Patriot Act d. the Alien and Sedition Acts e. the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Geraldo is lost in the Big Thicket in Texas. In which of the following areas is he lost?
a. the South Texas Prairie b. the Edwards Plateau c. the Piney Woods d. the Llano Uplift