Test Bank for Party Politics in America, 18e

Test Bank for Party Politics in America, 18e by Marjorie Randon Hershey (All Chapters) Chapter 1

Multiple-Choice Questions

• Groups that are considered to be links between citizens and the people in

government who make the decisions are called:

• intermediaries
• members of Congress
• institutions
• bureaucracies

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

• Political parties in Europe have been more committed to keeping their elected

officials faithful to the party’s program, while in the U.S., the two major parties:

• substantially agree with one another on issues
• avoid conflict
• concentrate on election activities
• operate on the national level but not at the state or local level

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

• Recent Congresses have been among the ______ in American history.
• most polarized
• least polarized
• least partisan
• most well-loved (by the public)

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

4. George Washington felt that parties would:

• fight for what is noble and right for all Americans
• encourage people to pursue their narrow self-interest at other people’s

expense

• be tireless workers for the common good so that their candidates would win

office

• help manage a complex government by bridging the separation of powers

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy 1 / 4

• Which of these is NOT one of the three parts of parties?
• The county courts.
• The party organization itself.
• The party leaders in government.
• The people who identify with a party in the electorate.

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

• Republicans are usually linked with ______; and Democrats are usually linked with

______.

• labor and women; minorities
• the rich; small business
• business; labor and the disadvantaged
• minorities; labor

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

7. Parties and other political groups have these functions in common:

• they all try to educate citizens
• they all have the power to nominate candidates
• they are all extremely stable and long-lived
• they all promote all-inclusive ideologies

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

• The leader of the Federalists, the first group to resemble a party, was ______.
• George Washington
• Alexander Hamilton
• James Madison
• Thomas Jefferson

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

• In the early years of the U.S., the ______ party pushed for a central banking system

and high tariffs on imported goods.

• Republican
• Jeffersonian Republican
• Federalist
• Democratic-Republican

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

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• By what point in American history had nearly all national politicians aligned

themselves with an incipient political party?

• The late 1880s.
• 1860.
• 1932.
• The mid-1790s.

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

• The ______ were the party of farming interests, the less privileged and those on the

frontier.

• Whigs
• Democratic-Republicans
• Farmer-Labor Party
• Agrarians

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

• Why did American politics change markedly in the 1820s?
• The numbers of new political parties increased greatly.
• African Americans were given the right to vote in the urban South.
• Public officials were increasingly appointed rather than elected.
• Most states had eliminated the requirement that only landowners could

vote.

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

• This party had roots in the old Democratic-Republican Party but in a faction that

opposed the Jacksonians:

• Federalist Party
• Republican Party
• Whig Party
• Jeffersonian Party

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

14. The Electoral College:

• required each state to choose a number of presidential voters (electors)
• was eliminated as a way to elect presidents in 1820
• is not mentioned in the Constitution, though it came to be widely used anyway
• applies only to the election of governors, not presidents

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy 3 / 4

• The many immigrants who came to the United States before the Civil War were

welcomed primarily by the:

• Republican Party
• Democratic Party
• Whig Party
• Know-Nothing Party

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

• Like a social service organization that helped new arrivals with food and funds,

______ smoothed the way for new immigrants in the late 1800s.

• urban party machines
• Social Security
• Progressive reformers
• Know-Nothings

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

17. The Progressive reforms:

• tried to take power away from national party leaders
• were characterized by corruption and inefficient government
• tried to stop the spread of primary elections
• tried to take power away from the great urban party machines

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

18. Party machines:

• hated the immigrants and fought to keep them out of politics
• were a type of political organization that developed in the cities
• were composed of mostly Know-Nothings and Republicans
• were most active in western and frontier cities

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

19. In the 2020s, Republican core beliefs include:

• tax cuts
• support for labor unions
• a government that focuses on remedying inequalities
• support for abortion rights and gay rights

skill level: factual

difficulty: easy

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