Unit 6 Quiz

Question 1

Which two institutional features of the U.S. presidency have allowed the office to become more powerful over time?

Answer 1

national election and singular authority

Question 2

According to the U.S. Constitution, if no one candidate receives a majority vote of the Electoral College, who chooses the president?

Answer 2

the U.S. House of Representatives

Question 3

In the modern era, the equivalent practice of using the presidency as a bully pulpit (Theodore Roosevelt) could best be summed up in the phrase, “ ________.”

Answer 3

going public

Question 4

Whereas today candidates rely on the media, previously they based their campaigns on

Answer 4

the party organizations

Question 5

The selection of the vice presidential nominee at the national convention is based on

Answer 5

the presidential nominee’s choice of a running mate.

Question 6

________ ended the practice of party caucuses in Congress and in state legislatures nominating presidential candidates.

Answer 6

Andrew Jackson

Question 7

What did the Supreme Court rule about executive agreements in 1937?

Answer 7

They are legally binding in the same way that treaties are.

Question 8

A president’s accomplishments have largely depended on

Answer 8

whether circumstances favor strong presidential leadership.

Question 9

The presidency is

Answer 9

an office in which power is conditional, depending on whether the political support that gives force to presidential leadership exists or can be developed.

Question 10

Candidate strategy in the early presidential nominating contests (such as New Hampshire’s primary) is designed chiefly to gain

Answer 10

momentum.

Question 11

Congress has formally declared war ________ times in U.S. history.

Answer 11

5

Question 12

Which of the following is a reason that the nation did not routinely need a strong president during most of the nineteenth century?

Answer 12

all of these factors: the small policymaking role of the federal government; the sectional nature of the nation’s major issues; and the U.S. government’s small role in world affairs

Question 13

The only two states that are exceptions to the unit rule are

Answer 13

Maine and Nebraska.

Question 14

The presidential advisory unit that, as a whole, has declined significantly as an advisory resource for the president in the twentieth century is the

Answer 14

the Cabinet (as a whole).

Question 15

What aspect of presidential election did Andrew Jackson try but fail to achieve?

Answer 15

elimination of the Electoral College