1. Chapter 11 & 12 Review

2. What is a lobbyist?

3. A person paid to represent the particular interests of a group

4. These people use money donated by their members to fund their favorite candidates

5. Political Action Committees

6. What do public interest groups do?

7. They promote the interest of the general public…PTA is an example

8. What is the sum total of what everyone thinks about a specific issue?

9. Public Opinion

10. What is propaganda?

11. Ideas that are spread with the specific purpose to influence people

12. A program lists only the casualties of the War in Iraq, and never mentions any of the accomplishments of the American soldier. This is called…

13. Card Stacking (propaganda)

14. The federal government gets most of their money from…

15. individual income tax

16. Why do governments tax us?

17. To raise money

18. What is “revealed propaganda”?

19. Making people aware that you are clearly trying to influence them

20. What do interest groups do?

21. They try to influence public policy, they sometimes support a specific candidate, but they are not a political party because they usually only support one or two specific interests

22. If you wanted to fool someone via propaganda, you would use what kind?

23. “Concealed Propaganda”

24. When you break the law, this is the type of tax you have to pay

25. a fine

26. The total of the interest we owe on the money we borrowed to pay for things that the taxes collected don’t cover, is called the

27. National Debt

28. When they take a general sample of what people think of an issue

29. A Public Opinion Poll

30. This is a collection of all the forms of communication that are used to try to influence us.

31. The Mass Media

32. What is a tariff?

33. A tax on goods that are shipping into this country

34. Oh, NO! We’ve run out of money! What is this called?

35. A deficit

36. The money that is raised through tariffs, taxes, fines, user fees, etc is called

37. Revenue

38. Do you remember the address for your US Senator was? You might want to commit that information to memory.

39. This is another name for an interest group

40. a Lobby ie. The tobacco lobby, the hi-tech lobby, the environmental lobby

41. The End