Imagine two charity groups. Group X is a national non-governmental corporation, and Group Y is a neighborhood association. Both want the government to conserve the habitat of a particular animal species. What option for impacting government would most likely be available to Group X that is not available to Group Y?

a. staging protests to build public support
b. sending petitions to their representatives
c. making contributions to political campaigns
d. hiring lobbyists to promote their views

Describe at least one way in which the executive branch is able to influence the actions of the legislative branch and at least one way in which it is able to influence the actions of the judicial branch

What would lead a historian to consider two events to have a relationship of correlation rather than causation?

"august 19th (1864)- how they quarreled and wrangled among themselves- alabama and mississippi, all were loud for joe johnston, save and except the long-haired, one-armed hero, who cried at the top of his voice: "oh! you all want to be kept in trenches and to go on retreating, eh? " "oh, if we had had a leader, such as stonewall (jackson), this war would have been over long ago! what we want is a leader! " shouted a (wounded man). they were awfully smashed-up, objects of misery, wounded, maimed, diseased. i was really upset, and came home ill. this kind of thing unnerves me quite." mary chestnut, a diary from dixie this entry from the diary of mary chestnut illustrates a) the lack of medical technology possessed by the confederacy. b) the military superiority of southern troops in the civil war. c) the effects of the emancipation proclamation on the southern economy and society. d) the loss of morale and confidence by the confederacy towards the end of the civil war.