Qualifications and Presidential Roles
Presidential Roles
Responsibilities and Power
Cabinet Departments
Foreign Policy
100
What type of citizen must the president be?
Natural-born United States citizen
100
Identify the presidential role: President Roosevelt ordered troops to attack Germany and Japan in the 1940s.
Commander-in-Chief
100
President Obama recently gave a _________ to non-violent drug offenders
Pardon
100
Identify the department that would handle this law: Farmers are not allowed to use certain chemical pesticides to grow their crops because they have been linked to diseases in children.
Department of Agriculture
100
The United States will respond to each of the following scenarios with one of the following: Treaty, Military or Foreign Aid. More than 100 U.S. citizens died when the Germans sunk a passenger ship called the Lusitania in 1915, but President Wilson did not want to enter WWI. He convinced Germany to agree to stop the attacks.
Treaty
200
How many years of residency in the United States are required for the president?
14 years
200
Identify the presidential role: President Clinton balanced the budget in the 1990s and eliminated the national deficit.
Economic planner
200
President Woodrow Wilson helped negotiate the peace _______ for World War I.
Treaty
200
Identify the department that would handle this law: Employers must verify whether an employee is unemployed because they were fired or because they quit before that former employee can receive unemployment benefits.
Department of Labor
200
The United States will respond to each of the following scenarios with one of the following: Treaty, Military or Foreign Aid. In order to defeat Germany in WWII, President Roosevelt worked with Great Britain to plan a major invasion of Europe.
Military
300
How old does a person have to be to become president?
35 years old
300
Identify the presidential role: President Reagan reduced the size of the Cabinet departments because he supported limited government.
Chief Executive
300
President Obama will ___________ a person to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Scalia.
nominate/appoint
300
Identify the department that would handle this law: Companies that want to drill for oil have to submit a request to the federal government to review.
Department of Energy
300
The United States will respond to each of the following scenarios with one of the following: Treaty, Military or Foreign Aid. In 1990, Iraqi leader leader Sadam Hussein invaded and took over neighboring Kuwait. In January 1991, Congress authorized President George H. W. Bush to lead U.S. troops into Kuwait and force the Iraqi troops to leave.
Military
400
Identify the role of president: President Obama's election helped bring more Democrats into office.
Leader of the Party
400
Identify the presidential role: President Bush gave the State of the Union address 8 times as president.
Chief Legislator
400
When Congress submitted a bill to the President that he didn't like, he decided to _______ it.
Veto
400
Identify the department that would handle this law: The United States must send an ambassador to every other country regardless of the disagreements this country has with the other country.
Department of State
400
The United States will respond to each of the following scenarios with one of the following: Treaty, Military or Foreign Aid. In January 2010, a terrible earthquake devastated Haiti. The United States sent food, medicine and other supplies.
Foreign Aid
500
Identify the presidential role: President Clinton appeared at the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
Head/Chief of State
500
Identify the presidential role: President Nixon traveled to China to promote a positive relationship between the two countries.
Chief Diplomat
500
The Constitution lists powers of the President. These are called enumerated or formal powers. Powers that the President uses that are NOT listed in the Constitution are _________ powers.
Informal
500
Identify the department that would handle this law: All airplanes must undergo a 30-point check before a flight can take off.
Department of Transportation
500
The United States will respond to each of the following scenarios with one of the following: Treaty, Military or Foreign Aid. In 1949, after WWII, the United States and other democratic western countries formed NATO, an organization that promised if any of the countries was attacked by an outside nation, they would help defend each other.
Treaty
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