Question

Answer the following questions.

1) Select the best answer.

Which four groups form the federal bureaucracy?

the President, the vice president, the Cabinet, and the regulatory commissions

the Cabinet, the regulatory commissions, private industry, and government corporations

the executive branch, the legislature, the Cabinet, and the courts

the Cabinet, the regulatory commissions, independent agencies, and government corporations



2) Select the FOUR executive positions created in 1789 to form the first Cabinet.

secretary of homeland security

secretary of labor

secretary of education

secretary of war

secretary of state

secretary of the treasury

secretary of the interior

attorney general



3) Select the best answer.

The Constitution ____.

established 9 of the current 15 Cabinet departments

makes no mention at all of the ways in which the President is to disperse his power among others

only suggests the existence of an executive branch divided into major organizations

originally prohibited the President from dividing responsibilities among administrative agencies



4) Select the best answer.

Whose Presidency established the spoils system to reward supporters with government jobs?

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Jackson

Answer 1

1) the Cabinet, the regulatory commissions, independent agencies, and government corporations

2) secretary of war; secretary of state; secretary of the treasury; attorney general

3) makes no mention at all of the ways in which the President is to disperse his power among others

4) Andrew Jackson