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Famous Presidents
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This is the number of people that are currently contained in the Presidential Cabinet.
What is 15 members?
100
This is the President's salary.
What is $400,000?
100
The President runs the United States of America similar to how a CEO runs a company.
What is Chief Executive?
100
The President is elected by these individuals.
What are electors?
100
He took the role of Commander-in-Chief literally, as he lead national troops into Pennsylvania to put down the Whiskey Rebellion in 1791.
Who is George Washington?
200
This Cabinet position is the first in line to the Presidential succession.
What is Secretary of State?
200
The President must be at least this old to serve in the office.
What is 35 years old?
200
The President can negotiate these: Formal agreements between two or more nations.
What are treaties?
200
A Presidential candidate must receive this many votes in the Electoral College to win the Presidency.
What are 270 electoral votes?
200
This President kept Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri in the Union as Border States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
This Founding Father was the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
300
This Constitutional Amendment established term limits for the Presidency in 1951.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
300
The President determines relations with other nations including trade, aid, and war.
What is Director of Foreign Policy?
300
If a Presidential candidate does not receive the amount of electoral votes required, this body elects the new President.
What is the House of Representatives?
300
The limit on Presidential terms was established because of this President winning four consecutive terms.
Who is FDR?
400
This Cabinet position was established by George W. Bush in 2003.
What is Secretary of Homeland Security?
400
This Constitutional Amendment contains provisions for the Presidential succession beginning in 1967.
What is the 25th Amendment?
400
Passed in 1973, this piece of legislation gave Congress the right to be notified of troop commitments by the President.
What is the War Powers Act?
400
These two states supply nearly one-third of the required electoral votes needed for election.
What are California and Texas?
400
This President established the Meat Inspection Act after reading the horrors contained in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
500
This current Cabinet position was originally under Henry Knox and had a different name.
What is Secretary of Defense?
500
John Adams was the first individual to serve in this position for the United States of America.
What is the Vice Presidency?
500
This most recent Supreme Court justice was appointed by President Obama in 2010.
Who is Elena Kagan?
500
This Constitutional Amendment granted the District of Columbia a minimum of 3 electoral votes.
What is the 23rd Amendment?
500
This President won 49 of 50 states in the election of 1984.
Who is Ronald Reagan?