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Example Question #1 : Bureaucracy
Which of the following is not true of the Federal Reserve System?
Its leadership is chosen by the President.
It consists of twelve branches located throughout the country.
It was established by the Constitution.
It has the power to set interest rates.
It has the power to adjust the supply of money.
It was established by the Constitution.
The Federal Reserve Bank was created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of the New Deal. It was a central component of Roosevelt's plan to reform the American banking system after the Great Depression.
Example Question #1 : Bureaucracy
The Department of Homeland Security was created during the Presidency of __________
Bill Clinton.
George W. Bush.
George H.W. Bush.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Richard Nixon.
George W. Bush.
The Department of Homeland Security was first proposed at the beginning of 2001 and was then expedited to meet the growing threat of terrorism after 9/11. Thus it was created during the Presidency of George W. Bush. The primary function of the Department of Homeland Security is to protect the citizens of the United States from terrorist attacks on American soil.
Example Question #2 : Bureaucracy
Which of the following was not an original Cabinet position?
Secretary of Treasury
Attorney General
These were all original Cabinet positions
Secretary of War
Secretary of State
These were all original Cabinet positions
The Cabinet has been greatly expanded in the years since 1789, but all of these answer choices were original cabinet positions. The Departments of State, Treasury, and Defense were all created in 1789.
Example Question #3 : Bureaucracy
Which of these Federal departments is responsible for negotiating foreign treaties?
The Department of Defense
The Department of Commerce
The Department of State
The Department of Justice
The Department of the Interior
The Department of State
The Department of State is responsible for negotiating foreign treaties, as well as advising the President on foreign policy in general.
Example Question #4 : Bureaucracy
Which of these Federal departments is responsible for carrying out the national census?
Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
Department of Commerce
Department of Treasury
Department of State
Department of Commerce
The national census is conducted by the Department of Commerce. The Department of Commerce is also responsible for issuing patents and granting trademarks, along with the research into and promotion of trade.
Example Question #5 : Bureaucracy
The belief that government agencies will inevitably grow in size and cost is called __________.
judicial restraint
runaway agency
Congressional oversight
agenda setting
bureaucratic imperialism
bureaucratic imperialism
The term, "bureaucratic imperialism," is used to describe the belief that government agencies will always and inevitably grow in size and cost. The idea is that government agencies grow, without taking into account whether their growth confers any added benefit.
Example Question #3 : Structure Of The Bureaucracy
The Department of Homeland Security was created during the Presidency of __________.
Bill Clinton
Dwight Eisenhower
George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
George W. Bush
The Department of Homeland Security was first proposed in the early months of 2001, and it was promptly expedited following the terrorist attacks of September 11th. It was created during the Bush Administration. The Department of Homeland Security, as its name suggests, is tasked with protecting American citizens from terrorist attacks and responding to such attacks, as well as to national disasters.
Example Question #8 : Bureaucracy
Which Executive body is tasked with protecting the American people from terrorist attacks on American soil?
The Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Defense
The Iron Triangle
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Department of the Interior
The Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security, set up in 2001, is tasked with protecting the American people from terrorist attacks on American soil. It differs from the Department of Defense, which deals with foreign conflicts and dangers to American lives abroad.
Example Question #9 : Bureaucracy
The Federal Reserve was created in response to __________.
a series of financial panics
the creation of the national bank
The Spanish-American War
The First World War
the United States using the gold standard
a series of financial panics
The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 to act as a central organization to regulate the money supply of the United States and to establish moderately long term interest rates. In the years before the Federal Reserve, financial panics were common and extremely detrimental to the growth of the economy; the Panic of 1807 is usually considered the direct tipping point. Over the years, the power of the Federal Reserve has greatly expanded, particularly during the Great Depression Era, to try to prevent economic depression and recession.
Example Question #635 : Ap Us Government
Who assassinated President James Garfield?
Charles Guiteau
Leon Czolgosz
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Wilkes Booth
Robert E. Lee
Charles Guiteau
President Garfield was assassinated by Charles Guiteau. Guiteau, who wrote an essay supporting Garfield’s campaign, believed he should be rewarded with a position in Garfield’s government, and when this was not granted he enacted personal revenge. The motivation behind the assassination was one of the main factors that inspired the government to enact into law a bill that stated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit alone, and not as gratitude for political favors. John Wilkes Booth was convicted of Lincoln’s assassination, Leon Czolgosz with the assassination of William McKinley, Lee Harvey Oswald with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Robert E. Lee was a Confederate general, and war hero, during the American Civil War.