Executive Branch - Correct Answer Bureaucracy
cabinet - Correct Answer 1789 gave congress a _________
Advisors to the pres. - Correct Answer What is the cabinet
15 - Correct Answer How many departments are in the cabinet?
Andrew Jackson - Correct Answer First Pres to politicize administration?
When a pres demands absolute loyalty and gets rid of anyone who isn't loyal - Correct Answer What
does it mean to "politicize administration"?
spoils system - Correct Answer "Hiring and firing"
Spoils system - Correct Answer Machines were built on the __________ on a local level
Andrew Jackson - Correct Answer When the whigs won they cleaned the house because of the standard
set by
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - Correct Answer ban on the testing of nuclear weapons
The Garfield assassination - Correct Answer What tragedy led to the passing of the Pendleton Act
People should be staffed based on merit. Took political jobs out of office - Correct Answer Pendleton Act
Pendleton Act - Correct Answer What act prevented people getting hired or fired by politicians?
, Rogers act - Correct Answer What act created a foreign service that created merit system jobs with a set
term
Hatch act (1935) - Correct Answer What act did congress pass in the middle of the New Deal?
Hatch act - Correct Answer What act was a great idea that banned political bureaucrats appointees from
using their office to further political goals? Still exists today
Defense related - Correct Answer Half of all federal(career) bureaucrats work in ______________ jobs
Bureau Chief - Correct Answer Who is the highest career person who runs the department?
Inner cabinet - Correct Answer What are the 4 most prestigious positions in the presidents cabinet
called
Cabinet Members - Correct Answer Who serves the 2 roles of department heads and advisors to the
pres?
Congress - Correct Answer Who are the only people who can create, eliminate, or consolidate cabinet
departments?
Clientele groups - Correct Answer What groups benefit or deal with the cabinet dept?
Defense, State, Treasury, and Attorney General - Correct Answer What are the 4 most prestigious
positions in the presidents cabinet
Brownlow commission - Correct Answer Who was supposed to figure out a more efficient way to
appoint advice members?
Brownlow commission - Correct Answer Congress created a 2nd part of the executive branch under the