_____ helps maintain the federal balance by instilling loyalty to nation, state, and locality.

_____ was characterized by a far more active federal government and blurred lines of authority.

________ conducts its elections entirely by mail.

________ does not have a competitive multiparty system.

________ dominated the secession convention of 1861.

________ is the practice of tailoring campaign messages to individuals in small, homogenous groups.

Which of the following measures of central tendency describes the average value in a batch of numbers?

A descriptive statistic is a number that, because of its definition and formula, describes certain characteristics or properties of a batch of numbers.

A relative frequency is the total proportion of observations at or below a value in a frequency distribution.

A frequency distribution is often a better way to present small amounts of data.

Which of the following was identified as an advantage of using closed-ended questions?