The Presidency
Presidential Leadership
Cabinet Departments Bureaurcracy
The Watergate Scandel
Electing the President
100
$400,000 received yearly for four years.
What is the President's Salary?
100
The title given to the presidential role when President Bush endorsed John McCain in the 2008 election.
What is Chief of Party?
100
This cabinet manages the monetary resources of the United States.
What is the Treasury Department?
100
The reason why the Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate Apartment complex were broken into and why the assailants were attempting to tap the room.
What is paranoia about Nixon's re-election?
100
The name of the organization responsible for electing the president.
What is the Electoral College?
200
You must have lived in the United States for at least this many consecutive years before running for President.
What is 14 years?
200
The title given to the presidential role when President Clinton spoke to foreign dignitaries.
What is Chief Diplomat?
200
This department was merged in 1947 combining the Department of War and the Department of the Navy.
What is the Department of Defense?
200
The newspaper that broke the Watergate Scandal linking it to President Nixon.
What is the Washington Post?
200
The government department who decides who becomes president when no candidate gets the necessary 270 electoral votes to win the election in the Electoral College.
What is the House of Representatives?
300
An informal qualification for the presidency.
What is 1. extensive experience in government and/or the military or 2. wide appeal and support in most regions in the U.S. or 3. highly educated with an extensive background in business?
300
The title given to the presidential role when President Carter welcomed the Pope to the White House on behalf of the U.S.
What is Head of State?
300
This department was created after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
300
The last names of the reporters who broke the Watergate Scandal which eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon
What is Woodward and Bernstein?
300
The general name given to a political party that could "steal" votes from a candidate of a major party but the likely hood of winning the presidential election is slim to none.
What is a Third Party or Minor Party?
400
This amendment determines the succession to the Presidency and was passed in 1967.
What is the 25th Amendment?
400
The title given to the presidential role when President Roosevelt created several new agencies under his New Deal program.
What is Chief Executive.
400
The number of current cabinet department in the United States government.
What is 15 cabinet departments?
400
The year in which Richard Nixon was re-elected to his second term in office, which he later resigned.
What is 1972?
400
The name given to the idea that whatever the majority of a states residents vote, all of the electoral votes will be given to that president.
What is "Winner Take All"?
500
According to your book, the Vice President's two assigned duties.
What is 1. to preside over the Senate and 2. decide whether the president is disabled and acts as the president should that happen.
500
The title given to the presidential role when President Reagan signed a health care bill.
What is Chief Legislator?
500
The secretary of this department is one of the president's most trusted advisers. This department is responsible for implementing foreign policy.
What is the Department of State - Secretary of State?
500
The real name of the FBI source that leaked information about the Watergate Scandal to reporters.
What is W. Mark Felt?
500
The name of the event in which the president-elect becomes the president of the United States and addressed the nation.
What is the Inauguration?
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