review tool on the presidency

1. Civics
&
Econ
JEOPARDY

2. The President
Qualifications & terms
War and foreign
policy
President’s rôles
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Checks n’ balances
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History
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Potpourri
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F. J.

3. What is 35
years of age?
The Constitutional age
requirement for the
President

4. What is a
President’s term of
office?
4 years

5. What is the Electoral
College?
Elects the President of the
United States

6. What is the 22nd
Amendment?
Limits the President to
two terms of office

7. What is the 25th
Amendment?
States that the Vice-president
becomes the President “in
case of the removal of the
President from office or his
death or resignation”

8. What is an executive
order?
Issued by the President to
enforce or carry out a law

9. What is Commander-inChief?
Title of the President’s
constitutional war power

10. What is a treaty?
Formal arrangement
between the United States
and another country

11. Daily
Double

12. What is the War Powers
Act?
Passed by Congress in
1973 to limit the
President’s war powers
and reclaim some of its
own

13. What is Most Favored
Nation status [MFN]?
Trade status given to
another country as a
reward or incentive

14. What is Chief of
State or Chief
Citizen? when
President’s role
attending the funeral of a
foreign leader

15. What is legislative
leader?
Rôle of the President
when he vetoes a bill

16. What is Chief
Diplomat?
Rôle played by the
president when concluding
an executive agreement

17. What is Chief
Executive?
Rôle of President when
carrying out the law

18. What is Chief
Administrator?
Rôle of the President
when hiring, firing and
running the Executive
bureaucracy

19. What is to appoint
justices to the Supreme
Court bench?
How the President
influences the Supreme
Court for many years

20. What is
impeachment?
The means by which a
President can be removed
from office

21. What are ways the
President can influence
legislation?
Veto, threaten to veto, appeal
directly to the American people,
make deals with members of
Congress

22. What is Senate
approval?
Needed to enact
Presidential
appointments and
treaties

23. What are the President’s
judicial powers?
Pardon, amnesty, stay,
and reprieve

24. What was the Vietnam
War?
The event that led to
passage of the War
Powers Resolution

25. Who was Franklin D.
Roosevelt?
The only President to
serve more than two
terms

26. What was the
resignation of Richard
Nixon?
The reason Gerald Ford
became President

27. Who was John F. Kennedy?
President during the
Cuban Missile Crisis

28. Who were John / John
Quincy Adams, and George
Bush, Sr. / George Bush,
Jr.?
The two father-son
President combinations

29. What is Article Two of the
Constitution?
The part of the
Constitution that
establishes the office of
President of the United
States

30. Daily
Double

31. What is the State of the
Union Address?
Formal speech in which
the President informs
Congress on the
condition of the nation

32. What is a 2/3 majority
vote in both the House
and Senate?
How Congress can
override a President’s
veto

33. What is the Judicial
Branch?
The branch of the federal
government that has no
successors to the
Presidency

34. What are trade
sanctions?
Economic tool the
President can use to
punish or persuade
another nation

36. FINAL
JEOPARDY

37. CATEGORY
History

38. The policy of
government programs
FDR proposed to lift
the nation out of the
Great Depression

39. What was the New
Deal?