ch7 Flashcards
The Executive Department known as the Treasury makes coins and paper money in an attempt to do what?
Help the economy and collect taxes
The Education Executive Department provides funding for what?
Public schools and a students college tuition with assistance
Our Foreign Policy is an overall plan to deal with who?
Other nations
270 Electoral votes are needed to win which office?
Presidency
The 25th Amendment allowed for a real historical occurrence of a politician potentially rising to what position without being elected?
Presidency
The Defense Executive Department keeps the US safe by utilizing what?
Armed forces
National Security is the basic goal of what?
American policy
Homeland Security is set up for what?
To protect the country and keep out borders safe
The Postal Service is an example of what type of corporation?
Government owned
Senate approves the Presidential appointment to who?
The supreme court
Who is the only president to be elected more than 2 terms?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
An Ambassador is an official what of a country’s government?
representatives
Which state does not allow the Electoral college “Winner Take All” System?
Maine
How long must a person be a resident prior to being allowed to running for president?
14 years
John F. Kennedy was the first of whom elected President?
Non-protestant
The Cabinet is a group of Presidential Advisors that include the heads of the 15 what?
Top level executive departments
An Embassy is the official office of who in another country?
An ambassador
A Pocket Veto is when no action is taken by who on a bill that has been passed by Congress?
president
A pardon is a declaration of what from punishment?
Forgiveness and freedom
What is the minimum age to become the President of the US?
35
Treaties are formal agreements between how many countries?
Two or more
In 1948, Harry Truman was able to integrate the Army utilizing what?
Executive order
NATO is a mutual defense treaty between who?
Us, Canada and Europe
Who is responsible for presiding over the Senate?
The vice president
Did Congress declare war for the Vietnam War?
NO
How many Electoral Votes does Louisiana have?
8
