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These are people who work in one of the federal bureaucracies...

Who are bureaucrats

100

This was a system where the president appointed friends and supporters to jobs as rewards...

What was the spoils system
100

These are the largest bureaucracies in the federal government...

What are executive departments
100
This executive department has the largest budget by far and is where most federal tax dollars are spent...
What is the Department of Defense (DOD)
100
This is the total sum of money the federal government owes...
What is the federal debt
200

Most workers in the federal bureaucracy are career employees in this branch of government...

What is the Executive Branch
200

This is a "system" of hiring based on merit for jobs in the federal bureaucracy...

What is the Civil Service
200

These bureaucracies oversee and manage a "specific aspect" of the federal government, like environmental protection...

What are independent executive agencies

200
This was established by the 16th Amendment and is the largest source of government income...
What is income tax 
200

This is another way the government makes money, where they borrow money and pay it back with interest...

What is a bond

300

We need bureaucracies primarily to...

What is to carry out laws

300
The heads of executive departments (the cabinet) are hired directly by...
Who is the president
300

These bureaucracies are run like businesses but are owned by the government...

What are government corporations

300
This type of tax increases with the more money you make...
What is a progressive tax
300
This is a type of spending required by law every year...
What is mandatory spending
400

The heads of the 15 executive departments are called...

What is the cabinet

400
To be hired under the Civil Service system, a person must...
What is take an exam
400

These bureaucracies regulate some aspect of the economy (like communications) and make their own rules...

What are independent regulatory commissions

400
This type of tax is applied at the same rate against all income, no matter how much or how little a person make...
What is a proportional tax
400
This is a type of spending not required every year and which is subject to the budget process...
What is discretionary spending
500

There are this many categories of federal bureaucracies and these are their names...

What is 4 (executive departments, independent executive agencies, independent regulatory commissions and government corporations)

500

This 1883 law was important in helping to put an end to the spoils system...

What was the Pendleton Civil Service Act 

500
NASA would be an example of...
What is an independent executive agency
500
A "proportional tax" or flat tax is an example of...
What is a regressive tax
500
The U.S. Postal Service is an example of this type of agency...
What is a government corporation