PLS CPP Exam 2 Questions With Correct Answers

symbiotic - Answer The mutually beneficial relationship between 2 or more organisms. 4 Types of Cabinets (3 types?) - Answer Independent Executive Agencies, Independent Regulatory Agencies, Government Corporations. How many cabinet departments are there? - Answer 15 Who is in charge of a cabinet? (14 of them, and what is the one exception) - Answer A secretary. Attorney General- Dpt. of Justice Name some Independent Executive Agencies - Answer NASA, CIA, Peace Corps Name some Independent Regulatory Agencies - Answer OSHA, FEA, SEC Name some Gov. Corps. - Answer USPS, Amtrack, FOIC What did the Pendelton Act aim to do? - Answer Designed to eliminate the spoils system and limit patronage. What does the Haten Act do - Answer Restricts the type and extent of political activity that federal bureaucrats may conduct. Capture - Answer Term used to describe when a bureaucratic entity establishes a symbiotic relationship with a private interest group. Sunshine Laws - Answer Laws and regulations requiring that bureaucratic hearings and operations are held in public of with public disclosure. Whistle Bower - Answer A bureaucrat who exposes waste, fraud, abuse, illegalities or other tawdry upsets to the Public or to other Gov. entities. De Facto - Answer In fact, what actually exists. De Jure - Answer By right, legally 13th Amendment - Answer Slavery is unconstitutional 14th Amendment - Answer Equal Protection Amendment 15th Amendment - Answer Granted the De Jure right to vote to African Americans Voting Discrimination (3 Types) - Answer 1) Grandfather Clause 2)Literacy Tests 3) Poll Tax Jim Crow Laws - Answer Generic term referring to laws that discriminated against African Americans Plessy v. Ferguson - Answer Supreme Court ruling that set the precedent of the "separate but equal" doctrine. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas - Answer S.C ruling overturned Plessy V. Ferguson and made racial segregation in public schooling unconstitutional. Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Answer Legislation passed by Congress to outlaw segregation in public facilities and racial discrimination in employment, education, and voting. Title 7 - Answer Prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.