Government Agencies
Regulates airline traffic and passenger safety.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
The system used to elect a President in the United State
Electoral College
The President is the head of this branch of government.
Executive Branch
True/False - Executive Orders must follow The Constitution.
True (Supreme Court can declare an Executive Order as unconstitutional)
Article II of the Constitution is about this branch of government.
Executive Branch
Handles disaster relief
Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA)
To win the Presidency, you need over half of the possible electoral votes. How many electoral votes are needed to reach this?
270
Main role of the President
Enforce/Execute the law
True/False: States can ignore executive orders because they are not laws passed by Congress
False - Executive Orders have the force of federal law.
Current Governor of Maryland
Wes Moore
This agency monitors pollution standards.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The most recent President to lose the popular vote but win the Presidential election.
Trump
Part of US government that must approve Presidential appointments (Be specific)
When the President makes a policy without Congressional approval.
Executive Order
51 individuals in the USA can grant pardons - who are they?
This agency monitors business competition and works to resolve disputes between labor and management.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Politicians often promote policies of certain special interest groups and political action committees. What do the politicians usually get in exchange for this?
Money
Role the President serves when in charge of the military.
Commander - in - Chief
The President appoints the following positions EXECPT:
Supreme Court Justice, Attorney General, Speaker of the House, Secretary of State, Chief of Staff, Heads of Executive Agencies.
Speaker of the House (chosen by members of the House of Representatives)
What government agency is this musician talking about:
"... They try to shut me down on MTV but it feels so empty without me... But it's just me, I'm just obscene.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
This agency was created after The Jungle was released by Upton Sinclair
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Following the primaries, political parties meet to announce their candidate for the general election. This is done at what event?
National Convention (DNC/RNC)
The only President (other than Trump) to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms (not in a row)
Grover Cleveland (22 and 24)
The most recent Supreme Court Justice that has been appointed.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
If a state is in crisis and order must be restored - who can the Governor call to come restore order (not the federal government)
State National Guard