Famous Presidents And Decisions
This president is known for his 1803 decision to purchase the vast Louisiana Territory from France.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The president's power to reject a bill passed by Congress, which Congress can then override with a two-thirds vote.
What is a veto?
The official title for the leader of a Cabinet department.
What is a Secretary?
The Constitution assigns the Vice President the job of presiding over this chamber of Congress.
What is the Senate?
The Legislative Branch's ultimate check on the President that can result in removal from office.
What is impeachment and removal?
His Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 declared all enslaved people in Confederate territory to be free.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
As Commander-in-Chief, this is the group that the president directs and controls.
What are the armed forces (or military)?
This department is responsible for conducting U.S. foreign policy and handling international relations.
What is the Department of State?
This Amendment clarifies that the Vice President becomes President if the President dies, resigns, or is removed.
What is the 25th Amendment?
The specific power held by the Legislative Branch over Executive appointments and treaties.
What is Senate confirmation (or advice and consent)?
After World War II, this president made the decision to use atomic bombs on Japan to bring the conflict to an end.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
These are formal, signed directives from the President that manage operations of the federal government and carry the force of law.
What are Executive Orders?
The Cabinet member who acts as the chief legal officer of the federal government, heading the Department of Justice.
Who is the Attorney General?
The two official duties of the Vice President, according to the Constitution.
What are presiding over the Senate and succeeding the President (or helping determine presidential disability)?
The power of the Judicial Branch to declare a presidential action, like an Executive Order, illegal or unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
This president, after the Cuban Missile Crisis, signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The President can grant this, which legally forgives a person for a federal crime.
What is a pardon?
This is the department responsible for printing money, collecting taxes, and managing the national debt.
What is the Department of the Treasury?
This person is second in the line of Presidential Succession, immediately following the Vice President.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This check allows the President to appoint federal judges and Supreme Court justices.
What is the power to nominate judges?
In 1947, this president's doctrine pledged U.S. support for free peoples resisting subjugation, guiding early Cold War foreign policy.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The President's constitutional duty to tell Congress the state of the country and recommend necessary legislation.
What is the State of the Union?
This is the main purpose or role of the Cabinet concerning the President.
What is to advise the President?
The Cabinet official who is the first in the line of succession from the Cabinet, coming right after the President pro tempore.
Who is the Secretary of State?
This Legislative check is the power to review and monitor the actions of the Executive Branch agencies.
What is Congressional Oversight?