Vocab
Presidential Powers
Qualifications/ Succesion
Cabinet
Random
100
Written Communication between president and a foreign diplomat.
What is a diplomatic note?
100
President can overrule a bill with this.
What is a veto?
100
Arnold Schwarzenager cannot become president because of this qualification.
What is the qualification that the president must be born in the USA?
100
Leaders of the executive departments are called secretaries except for the Department of Justice which is called this.
What is the Attorney General?
100
High ranking government official who represents the US abroad.
What is an Ambassador?
200
Written agreement between nations.
What is a treaty?
200
President addresses congress in annual speech promoting his programs and policies.
What is the State of the Union?
200
How old must a president be and how long must he be a citizen?
35 years and 14 years
200
Sets standards for for weights and measurements.
What is the Department of Commerce?
200
Department responsible for helping farmers and providing free/reduced lunch.
What is the Department of Agriculture?
300
Highest Ranking officers of the Army, Air Force and Navy.
Who are the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
300
Power of the president permitting him control over the Armed forces.
What is the Commander in Chief?
300
Gerald Ford was what before becoming president.
What is the Speaker of the House?
300
The national parks under the control of this department.
What is the Department of the Interior?
300
A document necessary for American Citizens to travel abroad.
What is a passport?
400
Art of dealing with foreign governments.
What is diplomacy?
400
Power that places President as the ceremonial head of the government.
What is the Chief of State?
400
The 25th amendment outlines what?
The new president taking over via presidential succession can nominate a new vice president.
400
Department responsible for issuing passports, conducting foreign relations, protecting U.S. citizens abroad.
What is the Department of State?
400
These are inside the Executive Branch yet are independent from the Executive departments.
What are Regulatory commissions and Independent agencies?
500
Presidential power to postpone carrying out of prison sentence.
What is a reprieve?
500
Power responsible for carrying out the nations laws.
What is the Chief Executive?
500
The President, Vice-President, and Speaker of the house all resign or die.
How President Pro-tempore becomes president?
500
Concerned with city planning and helping impoverished citizens find places to live.
What is the Department of Housing and Urban Development?
500
Regulatory commission that goes after violators of federal transportation laws.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
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