Extra Credit Textbook Assignment #3

1. What is the name for a large organization that is structured hierarchically to carry out specific functions?
2. What are the three largest cabinet departments?
3. How many cabinet departments are there?
4. What is the largest agency in the federal government?
5. What do we call a federal agency that isn't part of a cabinet department and reports directly to the president?
6. What do we call an agency outside of the major departments that is charged with making and implementing rules and regulations?
7. What do we call a government agency that administers a quasi-business enterprise?
8. What do we call laws that have expiration dates?
9. What is the name for the system of judge-made law that originated in England and serves as the basis for our American system of law?
10. Other than laws, what to judges primarily rely upon in making their decisions?
11. What is the name for laws that come from government agencies?
12. What is the name for laws that come out of court decisions?
13. What do we call the power of a court to hear a case in question?
14. A person must have what before they can sue someone?
15. What percentage of appeals to the Supreme Court are denied?
16. How many women and minorities, combined total, have served on the Supreme Court?
17. Approximately how many Americans don't have health care?
18. What is the dollar value of all final goods and services produced in a one-year period called?
19. In the U.S., the bottom 70% of consumers use approximately what percentage of health-care expenditures?
20. What is the approximate number of homeless people in the U.S. (as an average of the high and low projections)?
21. What is the trend in violent crime rates in the 1990s and 2000s?
22. How many people are in American prisons and jails and what rank is that worldwide?
23. How do tax rates in the U.S. compare to other modern industrialized democracies?
24. What are the two key types of nonmilitary aid that the U.S. gives to other countries?
25. When were the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and who was behind them?
26. Prior to the beginning of the Iraq war, what were the two key reasons why terrorists target the U.S.?
27. What was the reason for the first Gulf War?
28. What are the three major ethnic-religious groups in Iraq?
29. Name three government agencies that have an influence on foreign policymaking.
30. What do we call the mutually beneficial relationship between the armed forces and defense contractors?

-Audrey Nichols, POS1041, Section 5