Interest Groups

Question 1

Interest Group

Answer 1

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

An Interest group works together to get their ideas to the public.

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 worked to abolish slavery.

Question 3

Women´s Christian Temperance Union

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

The Women´s Christian Temperance Union fought the sale of liquor because they did not like how their husbands acted when they were drunk.

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 framing communities and rural areas.

The Grange was formed to regulate railroads and the grain warehouses.

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.

Lobbyist job is to persuade others to agree with their ideas.

Question 6

Progressive Movement

Answer 6

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

The progressive movement was started because their was a large amount of corruption in the United States during this time.

Question 7

Public Interest Group

Answer 7

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

Katy is trying decide if she should join a public interest group or just a regular interest group

Question 8

American Federation of Labor

Answer 8

Founded on 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 Organization to form the AFL-CIO.

My cousin Tom was able to get a job because of the American Federation of Labor.

Question 9

National Association of Manufacturers

Answer 9

An Organization founded in 1895 by manufactures to combat the growth of organized labor

My Uncle Mark joined the National Association Of Manufacturers when he was a teenager.

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 created by president Taft.

Question 11

Trade Association

Answer 11

A group that represents a specific industry.

The trade association is run by the business for the specific industry.

Question 12

Jerry Falwell

Answer 12

A southern baptist minister who, in 1978, founded the conservative religious interest group the Moral Majority.

Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority helped Ronald Reagan become president in 1980.

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

The Moral Majority was started by a baptist minister named Jerry Falwell in 1978.

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 group in Christian Coalition.

Pat Robertson loss the presidential election two times.

Question 15

Christian Coalition

Answer 15

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

The Christian Coalition was founded by Pat Robertson to help spread traditional values in American politics.

Question 16

National Rifle Association

Answer 16

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

The National Rifle Association is the longest standing civil rights organization in America.

Question 17

AFL-CIO

Answer 17

A large labor union founded in 1955 by the merging the American Federation of Labor and its one-time rival the Congress of Industrial Organization.

The AFL-CIO goal is to help the American working class in America

Question 18

Social Capital

Answer 18

Cooperative relationships that facilitate the resolution of collective problems.

Social Capital allows a society to work better together and solve problems together.

Question 19

Civic Virtue

Answer 19

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

Stacy practices civic virtue when she votes and volunteer to help the presidential campaign.

Question 20

Pluralist Theory

Answer 20

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

The pluralist theory is what allows many interest groups to be formed in America

Question 21

Disturbance Theory

Answer 21

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

The disturbance theory says that interest groups grow because of threats.

Question 22

Transactions Theory

Answer 22

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

Transaction theory was formed because of the dislike for the pluralist theory.

Question 23

Collective Good

Answer 23

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

An example of a collective good is a good environment.

Question 24

Economic Interest Group

Answer 24

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

Labor organizations are some of the largest economic interest group.

Question 25

Political Action Committee

Answer 25

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

The candidates Political Action Committee helped him to raise money for his campaigns

Question 26

Lobbying

Answer 26

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

Lobbying is what the the girl wanted to do when she grew up.

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 groups.

Marian Wright Edelman has defended many children who have been taken advantage of.

Question 28

Patron

Answer 28

A person who finances a group or individual activity.

The Patron of are club paid for us to go to New York for the competition.

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 effort.

Adam has a free rider problem which he enjoyed because he did not have to do much work.

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 lobbyist

Due to the Lobbying Disclosure Act Mark had to tell his boss all the lobbying he did at the end of the week.

Question 31

Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2017

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 the private sector.

Rachel got in trouble for sending gifts to congresswomen Monica because of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act