Electing a President
Becoming a President
Commander in Chief
The President as
Chief Executive
Chief Executive
Executive meets
Legislative
Legislative
100
The length of a Presidents term.
What is 4 years?
100
Joe Biden was President number ______ of the United States.
What is 46th?
100
Though Lincoln commanded extensive military operations during the American Civil War and thousands upon thousands of people died on both sides of the conflict, Congress never declared war against the _________________.
What is the Confederacy?
100
The President is responsible for carrying out the laws that ________ passes.
Who is Congress?
100
When no one wins a majority in the electoral college, the _______________________________ selects the president.
Who is House of Representatives?
200
The President must be a natural born citizen, at least 35 years old and have resided within the US for at least ______ years.
What is 14 years?
200
Who was the youngest person to ever become President?
100 Bonus points if you know his age.
Who was John Kennedy?
What was 43 years old?
200
The War Powers Act says that the President must inform leaders of Congress within _____ hours of any military actions he has taken.
What is 48 hours?
200
Describe the spoils system, from the saying, "To the victor (in battle) goes the spoils."
What is when the President cleaned house, fired people and appointed his political supporters?
200
Now that Congress convenes in January, the president gives his ___________________________speech a few days after the start of the congressional session.
What is State of the Union speech?
300
True or False
The requirements for the Vice President are different than that of the President.
What is FALSE.
300
Who was the tallest President?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
This President did not notify Congress within 48 hours of sending military advisors to El Salvador and had a lawsuit filed against him for a violation for the War Powers Act.
100 Bonus Points if you know the outcome of the lawsuit.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
The Federal Judge declined to become involved in what he saw was a political despite between President and Congress.
300
A staff of about ___ serve the first family in the Executive Residence.
What is 100?
300
True or False, The justices on the Supreme Court do applaud or cheer during the State of the Union speech?
What is False?
400
People often describe conservatives as being on the political _____ while liberals are on the _____.
What is the right and left?
400
The 22nd Amendment states that a person may be elected to the presidency no more than ______.
What is twice?
400
The President is also head of state, meaning he is in charge of carrying out diplomatic relations with ______ __________.
What is other countries?
400
The President has the right to grant a _______ or repreive to anyone convicted in federeal court.
What is a pardon?
400
For each State of the Union address, the president's administration selects one cabinet member who does not attend the speech, to maintain the line of _____________________________ in case of a national emergency.
What is presidential succession?
500
Each presidential election rests on the votes of _____ electors.
Hint...... It's a number.....
What is 538?
500
In 2001 the salary for the President increased to $____________.
What is $400,000?
500
The President and his representatives have the authority to pursue treaties with other governments. These must be ratified with a ______ vote by the Senate for them to take affect.
What is a 2/3rds vote?
500
Page 176 had a chart of Executive Orders issued per year by President. This President had issued the most as of 2023.
Who was FDR?
500
Gridlock in politics is when the President is of one party and the other party has majorities in ___________.
What is Congress?
600
A candidate must win _____ electoral votes to win the election.
Hint.... It's a number.
What is 270?
600
John Nance Garner, VP to FDR, said that the office of VP wasn't worth a bucket of ________.
What is warm spit?
600
The President can also sign a ____________ agreement with the head of another country. This agreement commits the U.S. to a certain course of action, but it does not require Senate approval.
What is an Executive Agreement?
600
Pardons are comonly issued a few ______ before leaving office.
What is days?
600
Line item veto would allow the President to veto ____________________ of a bill that Congress passed without having to veto the entire bill.
What is certain sections?
700
All states except Maine and Nebraska have a winner-take-all arrangement for their electors. This means that the candidate who wins the popular vote in a state, even if it is just by one vote, receives all of that state's_____________.
What is electoral votes?
700
This list is know as the _______________________________________.
What is Order of Presidential Succession?
700
President Obama concluded the Iran Nuclear Agreement in 2015. In 2018 this President withdrew the U.S. from this agreement with Iran, saying it had failed to protect American security interests.
Who was President Trump?
700
Bureaucracy literally means " government by _____ or ______."
What is desks or clerks?
700
In June of 1998, the U. S. Supreme Court did what to the line-veto.
What is struck down the line-item veto as unconstitutional? The court held that the Constitution gave the president the right to veto legislation, not parts of legislation.