Chapter 11 Terms

Question 1

Created as the result of the Brownlow report

Answer 1

Executive Office of the President

Question 2

Presidential Jet

Answer 2

Air Force One

Question 3

His/her primary duty is to enforce the laws

Answer 3

President

Question 4

This presidential retreat was originally known as Shangdi-La, and first used by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 4

Camp David

Question 5

Group of the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the president, currently there are 15 positions

Answer 5

Cabinet

Question 6

The ultimate check on the president, and has only happened to Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton

Answer 6

Impeachment

Question 7

Agency was originally created to stop counterfeiting but eventually became responsible for protecting the president

Answer 7

Secret Service

Question 8

This president created the National Security Council

Answer 8

Harry Truman

Question 9

He renamed the presidential retreat in honor of his grandson

Answer 9

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 10

He was the first president to die while in office

Answer 10

William Henry Harrison

Question 11

This amendment outlines the process for filling a vacancy in the Office of Vice President

Answer 11

Twenty-fifth Amendment

Question 12

He was the first president to resign from office

Answer 12

Richard Nixon

Question 13

The Radical Republicans sought to have him removed from office

Answer 13

Andrew Johnson

Question 14

Presidential Pullman railroad car

Answer 14

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 15

Means a written understanding with another head of state to carry out a particular action

Answer 15

Executive agreement

Question 16

This amendment restricts the president to two terms in office

Answer 16

Twenty-second Amendment

Question 17

Presidential helicopter

Answer 17

Marine One

Question 18

Appointed Vice President when Spiro Agnew resigned from office

Answer 18

Gerald Ford

Question 19

Failed to get the Senate to ratify the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 19

Woodrow Wilson