Roles
Qualifications/Election
Executive Branch
Miscellaneous
100
Head of armed forces.
What is commander-in-chief?
100
Name for the process in which the president is elected.
What is the electoral college?
100
What is an Iron Triangle?
100
Body that approves presidential appointments and treaties.
What is the Senate?
200
Negotiates deals with foreign leaders, appoints Secretary of State.
What is the Chief Diplomat?
200
Minimum age to be president.
What is 35?
200
Previous system for selecting government employees, where the president would give jobs to their political supporters.
What is the Spoils System?
200
Amendment that allows VP to determine presidential disability.
What is the Twenty-Fifth Amendment?
300
Role where the President symbolically represents the United States. Meeting with leaders, pardoning Turkeys, etc.
What is Head of State?
300
Besides Donald Trump, all Presidents formally had a job here.
What is the government (state, federal, military)?
300
The assistant to the president for national defense and security.
What is the national security advisor?
300
Agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the President of the United States on economic policy
What is the Council of Economic Advisors?
400
Provides a proposed budget to Congress.
What is Chief Economic Planner?
400
Court case that halted the recount in Florida citing the Fourteenth Amendment. Determined the 2000 election.
What is Bush v. Gore?
400
Department created to address housing needs. Also deals with poverty in cities.
What is the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)?
400
Following the September 11th Attacks, the US military/president increasingly participated in this type of warfare that is characterized by special operation troops, private contractors, and armed drones.
What is Shadow War?