Under the spoils system, who was awarded jobs in the federal bureaucracy?
a. those who scored highest on aptitude tests
b. those who did not affiliate with a political party
c. those who previously served in the military
d. those who helped candidates win election
Answer: d
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The Anti-Saloon League, whose successful lobbying led to the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment, was successful in part because
a. it focused only on electing “drys” and defeating “wets.” b. it offered a broad platform that took a stance on virtually every important political issue of the day. c. it worked through an entirely new organizational structure and avoided the conflicts that already existed in many churches and local temperance groups. d. it insisted that any candidate receiving its endorsement had to be a publicly sworn nondrinker.
The idea that someone could be “too American to feel at home anywhere else, but too foreign to feel at home in America” is an example of issues with ______.
A. birthright citizenship B. inherited citizenship C. citizenship naturalization D. cultural citizenship