AP GOV Chapter 14 Key Terms- Selena Gomez Per. 6

Question 1

Interest Groups

Answer 1

A collection of people or organizations that tries to influence public policy

The Boy Scouts of America are an example of an interest group.

Question 2

American Anti-Slavery Society

Answer 2

A major interest group, founded in 1833, to advocate for the abolition of the institution of slavery throughout the United States

The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tapan.

Question 3

Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Answer 3

A public interest group created in 1874 with the goal of outlawing the sale of liquor. Its activities included prayer groups, protest marches, lobbying, and the destruction of saloons

Many women in the Women’s Christian Temperance believed that alcohol was an evil substance that left men neglecting their families.

Question 4

The Grange

Answer 4

Founded in 1867 as an educational organization for farmers, The Grange evolved into the first truly national interest group by working to protect the political and economic concerns of farming communities and rural areas

The Grange was created after the Civil War had occurred.

Question 5

Lobbyist

Answer 5

Interest group representative who seeks to influence legislation that will benefit his or her organization or client through political and/or financial persuasion

The chairman of the committee asked security to remove a lobbyist who kept bothering him during lunch.

Question 6

Progressive Movement

Answer 6

A broad group of political and social activists from the 1890s to the 1920s who opposed corruption in government, supported regulation of monopolies, and sought improvement of socioeconomic conditions

Many new organizations and groups were formed due to the Progressive movement.

Question 7

Public interest group

Answer 7

An organization that seeks a collective good that if achieved will not selectively and materially benefit group members

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce are a public interest group.

Question 8

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Answer 8

Founded in 1886, the AFL brought skilled workers from several trades together into one stronger national organization for the first time. It merged in 1955 with the Congress of Industrial Organizations to form the AFL-CIO

Who founded the American Federation of Labor?

Question 9

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)

Answer 9

An organization founded in 1895 by manufacturers to combat the growth of organized labor

The childrens’ father was apart of the National Association of Manufacturers.

Question 10

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Answer 10

A major pro-business lobbying group founded in 1912

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was founded in the same year that the titanic sank.

Question 11

Trade Association

Answer 11

A group that represents a specific industry

Do you know of any Trade Associations?

Question 12

Jerry Falwell

Answer 12

A Southern Baptist minister who, in 1978, founded the conservative religious interest group the Moral Majority

Jerry Falwell passed away in 2007.

Question 13

Moral Majority

Answer 13

A conservative religious interest group credited with helping to mobilize conservative Evangelical Christian voters from its founding in 1978 through the presidency of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

You weren’t even alive when the Moral Majority was founded!

Question 14

Pat Robertson

Answer 14

A Southern Baptist minister and television evangelist who ran for president in 1988 and in 1989 founded the conservative religious interest group the Christian Coalition

Pat Robertson was in the the 700 Club.

Question 15

Christian Coalition

Answer 15

A religious interest group founded in 1989 to advance conservatives Christian principles and traditional values in American politics

You don’t seem like the kind of person who would be apart of the Christian Coalition.

Question 16

National Rifle Association (NRA)

Answer 16

The major gun-rights lobbying group in the United States, which opposes gun control an advances an expansive interpretation of the Second Amendment

The president of the National Rifle Association is Oliver North.

Question 17

AFL-CIO

Answer 17

A large labor union founded in 1955 by the merging of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and its one-time rival the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

The AFL-CIO is a nonporfit organization.

Question 18

Social Capital

Answer 18

Cooperative relationships that facilitate the resolution of collective problems

Do you know what a Social capital is?

Question 19

Civic Virtue

Answer 19

The tendency to form small-scale associations for the public good

An individual can exhibit civic virtue by voting.

Question 20

Pluralist theory

Answer 20

The theory that political power is distributed among a wide array of diverse and competing interest groups

I still have no clue what pluralist theory is.

Question 21

Disturbance theory

Answer 21

The theory that interest groups form as a result of changes in the political system

Mom, what is a disturbance theory?

Question 22

Transaction theory

Answer 22

The theory that public policies are the result of narrowly defined exchanges or transactions among political actors

The transaction theory is also called social cost theory.

Question 23

Collective good

Answer 23

Something of value that cannot be withheld from a nonmember of a group, for example, a tax write-off or a better environment

Public goods and collective goods are indispensable.

Question 24

Economic Interest group

Answer 24

A group with the primary purpose of promoting the financial interests of its members

Does the president have an economic interest group?

Question 25

Political action committee (PAC)

Answer 25

Officially recognized fund-raising organization that represents interest groups and is allowed by federal law to make contributions directly to candidates campaigns

I’m apart of the political action committee.

Question 26

lobbying

Answer 26

The activities of a group or organization that seek to persuade political leaders to support the groups position

In Georgia, lobbying is a felony by law.

Question 27

Marian Wright Edelman

Answer 27

A lawyer who in 1973 founded the Children’s Defense Fund to protect the rights of children, particularly those who are members of disadvantaged

Marian Wright Edelman was once my lawyer.

Question 28

Patron

Answer 28

A person who finances a group or individual activity

My mom is a patron for Girl Scouts.

Question 29

free rider problem

Answer 29

Potential members who fail to join a group because they can get the benefit, or collective good, sought by the group without contributing

The free rider added nothing to the team so he was fired.

Question 30

Lobbying Disclosure Act

Answer 30

A 1995 federal law that employed a strict definition of lobbyist and established strict reporting requirements on the activities of lobbyists

The Lobbying Disclosure Act was amended substantially in 2007.

Question 31

Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007

Answer 31

Lobbying reform banning gifts to members of Congress and their staffs, toughening disclosure requirements, and increasing time limits on moving from the federal government to be private sector

My brother doesn’t know what the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 is.