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Question 1

(AFL-CIO)

Answer 1

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.
sentence: The AFL-CIO has made up of fifty-five national and international unions.

Question 2

American Anti-Slavery Society

Answer 2

was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at its meetings.
Sentence: He became an abolitionist in 1835, after seeing an antislavery meeting at Utica broken up by a mob.

Question 3

american federation of labor(AFL)

Answer 3

an alliance of skilled workers in craft unions;
concentrated on bread-and-butter issues such as higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions
Sentence: The American Federation of Labor is a federal organization of labor unions.

Question 4

Christian Coalition

Answer 4

in the 1990s, Pentecostal minister Pat Robertson began a political movement and launched this organization.
Sentence: Christian Coalition was a minister who began a positive movement.

Question 5

Civic virtue

Answer 5

the willingness to do one’s part in supporting the public good, the willingness to do one’s part to combat corruption
Sentence: They must share an equal commitment to civic virtue in a democratic society.

Question 6

Collective good

Answer 6

something of value (money, a tax write-off, prestige, clean air, and so on) that cannot be withheld from a group member
Sentence: The collective good of these five companies overruled any other competing interest,

Question 7

disturbance theory

Answer 7

The theory that interest groups form in part to counteract the efforts of other groups.
sentence: The extent to which the disturbance spreads depends on the violence of the stimulation may be confined to a few leaflets or it may extend to all the leaves of the plant.

Question 8

Economic interest theory

Answer 8

A group with the primary purpose of promoting the financial interests of its members
Sentence: In my opinion, the government is being huge Economic interest theory

Question 9

free rider problem

Answer 9

the potential member fails to join a group because they can get the benefit, or collective good, sought by the group without contributing the effort.
Sentence: The free rider added nothing to the relationship so after a few months we had to remove him from our team.

Question 10

House leadership and Open Government Act of 2007

Answer 10

is a law of the United States federal government that amended parts of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.
Sentence: The act of the open government is a law of the US to close the act.

Question 11

Interest group

Answer 11

An organized group that tries to influence public policy

Sentence: So local governments and enterprises become an interest group.

Question 12

Jerry Farwell

Answer 12

A Southern Baptist Minister who, in 1978, founded the conservative religious group the Moral Majority
Sentence: Jerry Farwell is someone who found the religious group

Question 13

Lobbying

Answer 13

The activities of a group or organization that seeks to influence legislation and persuade political leaders to support the group’s position
sentence: By law, in Georgia, lobbying is a felony.

Question 14

Lobbying Disclosure Act

Answer 14

A 1995 federal law that employed a strict definition of lobbyist and established strict reporting requirements on the activities of lobbyists
Sentence: Lobbying disclosure act is s strict reporting and their requirements

Question 15

Lobbyist

Answer 15

Interest group representative who seeks to influence legislation that will benefit his or her organizations or client through political and/or financial persuasion
sentence : The lobbyist inovle the legislation that benefit his ornagizaations.

Question 16

Marian Wright Edelman

Answer 16

A lawyer who in 1973 founded the Children’s Defense Fund to protect the rights of children, particularly those who are members of disadvantaged groups
sentence : Marian Wright Edelman was a lawywe who protected children and thier rights.

Question 17

Moral Majority

Answer 17

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).
Sentence : Moral Majority was an religious interest group who helped christain voters.

Question 18

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)

Answer 18

An organization founded in 1895 by manufacturers to combat the growth of organized labor
Sentence: The NAM organizarion comabt the growth of labor.

Question 19

National Rifle Association (NRA)

Answer 19

The major gun-rights lobbying group in the United States, which opposes gun control and advances an expansive interpretation of the Second Amendment
Sentence: The NRA opposed the gun control that advances an expansive.

Question 20

Pat Robertson

Answer 20

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
Setence : Pat Robertson was someone who supported amd owner of the interest group .

Question 21

Patron

Answer 21

A person who finances a group or individual activity

Setence : the goveremt are the patron .

Question 22

Plurist thoery

Answer 22

The theory that political power is distributed among a wide array of diverse and competing interest groups.
Sentence : The plurist thoery is among the military an dinterest groups.

Question 23

Progressive movement

Answer 23

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
Sentence : The progressive movement were the poltical and socail activits .

Question 24

Poltical Action comitte (PAC)

Answer 24

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

Sentence : The PAC was a group who fund rasied organizations.

Question 25

public interest group

Answer 25

An organization that seeks a collective good that if achieved will not selectively and materially benefit group members
Sentence : The public interest group were a collective good that achieved will not selectively.

Question 26

social captial

Answer 26

cooperative relationships that facilitate the resolution of collective problems
Sentence : The social captial was the reslotion of collective problems.

Question 27

The grange

Answer 27

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

Question 28

trade assocaition

Answer 28

a group that represents a specific industry

Sentence : Trade assocaition was a group that represnts a specific indurty

Question 29

transactions thoery

Answer 29

The theory that public policies are the result of narrowly defined exchanges or transactions among political actors
sentence : Transactions thoery is the thoery that defined exchanges and political acotrs.

Question 30

U.S. Chamber of commerce

Answer 30

A major pro-business lobbying group founded in 1912

Sentence : The us chamber of commerce was found in 1912

Question 31

Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Answer 31

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
Sentence : The WCTU was a group that invloved everything.