Presidents
He was known as "The Great Communicator" for his skill in connecting with the public.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
A candidate not running as a Republican or Democrat is known as this.
What is a third-party candidate?
The state delegates formally casts the votes that officially elect the President of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
This amendment, ratified in 1804, established separate electoral ballots for President and Vice President and specified that if no candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives would choose the President, and the Senate would choose the Vice President
What is the Twelfth Amendment?
The president’s salary and other fund are referred to as this.
What is compensation?
This president was a master of using radio to speak directly to the American people.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
In some states, there are private meetings run by political parties to select hopeful candidates for office.
What is a caucus?
If no candidate wins a majority of electoral votes, this part of Congress chooses the President.
What is the House of Representatives?
This amendment limits a president to two terms in office.
What is the Twenty-second Amendment?
These include a pension, travel allowance, and compensation.
What are the benefits of the presidency?
This president said, “Ask what you can do for your country” in his Inaugural Address.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This type of candidate has a better chance than an independent of winning the presidency.
What is a Democrat or Republican?
Most States have a “winner-take-all” system that awards all electors to the Presidential candidate who wins the State's popular vote. Name the two states that don't have this process.
Who is Maine and Nebraska ?
This amendment outlines how a vice president can become acting president or the presidential succession plan.
What is the Twenty-fifth Amendment?
The age, residency and natural born citizen to become president is considered this type of qualification or outline in.
What is a formal qualification? What is the Constitution?
He showed personal and political courage during his presidency to preserve the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This system of electing the president and vice president has been used for nearly 150 years.
What is the Electoral College?
This is the minimum number of electoral votes a presidential candidate must win to become president.
What is 270?
The Presidential Succession Act refers specifically to officers beyond the vice president acting as president rather than becoming president when filling a vacancy.
What is the Twenty-fifth Amendment?
This inaugural activity is most likely to inspire American citizens.
What is giving an inaugural address?
President Obama’s election was viewed as a sign of this American ideal.
What is diversity? What is a change?
The Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore raised concerns about this constitutional issue about the use of different standards of counting in different counties violated the
What is the Fourteenth Amendment (equal protection)?
True or False: A candidate can win the popular vote nationwide but still lose the presidency.
What is True?
A vice president becomes a temporary president in several scenarios, primarily
What if, the president is temporarily unable to fulfill their duties or when the president's office becomes vacant?
The President's salary and other compensations are determined by
Who is Congress ?