EXECUTIVE BRANCH STUDY GUIDE (QQT)
Q: What makes up the Executive Branch? A: The President, Vice President, The Cabinet, and Executive departments.
Q: What are the qualifications of the president/vice president? A: Must be 35 years old, a natural born citizen, lived in the US the last 14 years.
Q: How many years is one term for the presidency? A: 4 years
Q: What amendment limited the president to two terms or no more than 10 years? A: 22nd amendment
Q: As of 2001, what is the salary of the president? A: $400,000
Q: What is the order of the presidential succession? (in other words, if the president dies what is the order of leaders who can take his/her place? A: 1. Vice President, 2. Speaker of the House, 3. President pro tempore, 4. Cabinet secretaries in order of department origin (state, treasury, defense)
Q: The 25th Amendment of 1967 indicates that if the president cannot complete his term, what happens? A: The V.P. becomes President, or if the V.P. office is vacant, the President appoints one w/ Senate approval.
Q: Who became president due to Richard Nixon’s resignation? A: Gerald Ford
Q: What was the Watergate scandal? A: a political scandal that occurred in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in D.C. in 1972. Nixon’s administration attempted cover-up of its involvement.
Q: How did political parties form? A: Disagreements between cabinet members under George Washington’s presidency.
Q: Who formed the first two political parties and what were the names of the parties? A: John Adams and Alexander Hamilton formed the Federalist Party and Thomas Jefferson formed the Democratic Republicans
Q: What is the name given to the group of advisors that help the president? A: The Cabinet
Q: Is the cabinet mandated by the Constitution? A: No
Q: What is the head of the Department of State called? A: Secretary of State
Q: What does the Department of State handle? A: foreign policy, staffs embassies, analyzes data about American interests in other nations, speaks for the U.S. at the United Nations.
Q: Who was the first Secretary of State? A: Thomas Jefferson
Q: Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury? A: Alexander Hamilton
Q: Who was the first Secretary of Defense? A: Henry Knox
Q: Who was the first Attorney General? A: Edmund Randolph
Q: How many departments are there today? A: 15
Q: What does the Department of the Treasury handle? A: serves as financial division of the government, manages public debt, collects taxes, coins money, regulates the production and distribution of alcohol and tobacco
Q: What does the Department of Justice handle? A: oversees the nation's legal affairs, supervises the agencies that serve as the nation's police and prison system, enforces antitrust laws
Q: What does the Department of Defense handle? A: Protects the security of the United States, overseas the armed forces through the Joint Chief of Staff.
Q: What does the Department of the Interior handle? A: Protects public lands, and natural resources throughout the U.S. It also overseas relationships with Native Americans.
Q: What does the Department of Agriculture handle? A: Helps farmers improve incomes and production for home and abroad, safeguards the nation's food supply.
Q: What does the Department of Commerce handle? A: Promotes and protects the industrial and commercial parts of the economy; carries out the census.
Q: What does the Department of Labor handle? A: Ensures safe working conditions, oversees minimum wages and protects pensions, collects and analyzes data on employment.
Q: What does the Department of Health and Human Services handle? A: oversees programs concerned with health and social services of America; manages federal medicare and medicaid.
Q: what does the Department of Transportation handle? A: regulates America's transportation needs, policies and planning; works to ensure safe, efficient, and convenient land and air transportation.
Q: What does the Department of Energy handle? A: plans energy policy, researches and develops energy technology.
Q: Who is the closest agent to the president? A: White House Chief of Staff
Q: Who nominates advisors for the cabinet? A: The President
Q: Who votes for presidential nominations to the Cabinet? A: The US Senate
Q: What department is the newest and what does it handle? A: Department of Homeland Security and it focuses on counter-terrorism.
Q: What is foreign policy and what issues involve foreign policy? A: relationship between nation-states, issues that involve foreign policy are war, peace, trade, any general interaction
Q: According to the Constitution, the treaty-making power is divided between... A: the President and the Senate.
Q: A 1973 congressional resolution required the president to notify Congress upon ordering U.S. troops into military action. If Congress doesn't approve of this action, the president must withdraw the troops within how many days? A: 60 days
Q: What is an executive agreement? A: agreements with foreign countires that require only a presidential signature
Q: During what years did the Cold War happen? A: 1946-1989
Q: Who were the two main rivals during the Cold War? A. United States & Soviet Union
Q: What was the Cold War about? A: capitalism vs. Communism and mutual threats about destruction by nuclear warfare
Q: What is the policy of containment? A: U.S. policy that attempted to stop the spread of communism.
Q: What does CIA stand for and what does this agency do? A: Central Intelligence Agency, responsible for gathering and analyzing information about the political and military activities of other nations. It was created during the Cold War (National Security Act of 1947).
Q: After the Cold War ended, what did the US focus on? A: "Nation Building" - interventions designed to enhance democratic practices in other countries.
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