APGovCh.15.Juan.Jaimes

Question 1

AFL-CIO

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The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of fifty-five national and international unions, together representing more than 12 million active and retired workers.

Question 2

American Anti-Slavery Society

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The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS; 1833–1870) was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan

Question 3

American Federation of Labor

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The American Federation of Labor was a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union

Question 4

Christian Coalition

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The Christian Coalition is a nonprofit organization that serves as a powerful lobby for politically conservative causes

Question 5

Civic Virtue

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Civic virtue is morality or a standard of righteous behavior in relationship to a citizen’s involvement in society.

Question 6

Collective Good

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In philosophy, economics, and political science, the common good refers to either what is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community, or alternatively, what is achieved by citizenship, collective action, and active participation in the realm of politics and public service.

Question 7

Disturbance Theory

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Disturbance theory is a political postulation by David Truman that states that interest groups form primarily when there are changes in a social environment that upsets the well-beings of some groups of people.

Question 8

Economic Interest Good

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Economic interest groups are one of the five broad categories of interest groups in the US.

Question 9

Free rider problem

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In economics, the free-rider problem occurs when those who benefit from resources, public goods, or services do not pay for them, which results in an underprovision of those goods or services

Question 10

Honest Leadership and Open government act of 2007

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The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 is a law of the United States federal government that amended parts of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995

Question 11

Interest Group

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Interest group, also called special interest group or pressure group, any association of individuals or organizations, usually formally organized, that, on the basis of one or more shared concerns, attempts to influence public policy in its favour

Question 12

Jerry Falwell

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Jerry Lamon Falwell Sr. was an American Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Question 13

Lobbying

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seek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue

Question 14

Lobbying disclosure act

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The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 was legislation aimed at bringing increased accountability to federal lobbying practices in the United States. The law was amended substantially by the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007

Question 15

Lobbyist

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a person who takes part in an organized attempt to influence legislators.

Question 16

Marian Wright Edelman

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Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for the rights of children. She has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. She is president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)

Question 17

Moral Majority

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a political action group formed in the 1970s to further a conservative and religious agenda, including the allowance of prayer in schools and strict laws against abortion

Question 18

National Association of Manufacturers

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The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is an advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, with additional offices across the country

Question 19

Defense Policy

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Military policy (also called defence policy or defense policy) is public policy dealing with international security and the military. It comprises the measures and initiatives that governments do or do not take in relation to decision-making and strategic goals, such as when and how to commit national armed force

Question 20

Department of Defense

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Department of Defense. A department of the federal executive branch entrusted with formulating military policies and maintaining American military forces. Its top official is the civilian secretary of defense. It is headquartered in the Pentagon.

Question 21

Department of Homeland Security

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The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a cabinet department of the United States federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries

Question 22

Department of State

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The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues.

Question 23

Detente

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the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.

Question 24

Deterrence

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a thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something.

Question 25

European Union

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European Union. A political union, often called the EU, to which the member states of the EEC are evolving. Based on the Maastricht Treaty, it envisions the eventual establishment of common economic, foreign, security, and justice policies.

Question 26

Farewell Adress

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A Farewell speech or farewell address is a speech given by an individual leaving a position or place. ... In the Classics, a term for a dignified and poetic farewell speech is apobaterion, standing opposed to the epibaterion, the corresponding speech made upon arrival

Question 27

Foreign Policy

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a government's strategy in dealing with other nations.

Question 28

Foreign policy idealism

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Idealism in foreign policy holds that a state should make its internal political philosophy the goal of its foreign policy. For example, an idealist might believe that ending poverty at home should be coupled with tackling poverty abroad. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was an early advocate of idealism.

Question 29

Foreign policy realism

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the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.

Question 30

Free trade system

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Free trade policies generally promote the following features: Trade of goods without taxes (including tariffs) or other trade barriers (e.g., quotas on imports or subsidies for producers) Trade in services without taxes or other trade barriers. ... Trade agreements which encourage free trade

Question 31

Global war on terror

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The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the United States government after the September 11 attacks against the United States.

Question 32

Gulf War

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A war that began in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait and ended in 1991 when a coalition of countries led by the United States expelled the Iraqi army from Kuwait and destroyed much of Iraq's military capability. Also called Persian Gulf War.

Question 33

Human Rights

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right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person

Question 34

Iraq War

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Iraq War. noun. A protracted military conflict in Iraq that began in 2003 with an attack by a coalition of forces led by the United States and that resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. US combat troops were withdrawn in 2010.

Question 35

Iron Curtain

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the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989

Question 36

ISIS

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SIS in British. (ˈaɪsɪs) noun acronym for. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

Question 37

Isolationism

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a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

Question 38

Public Policy

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the principles, often unwritten, on which social laws are based