Executive Orders quick check

The Framers made executive orders available to:

• The Legislative branch only

• The Executive and Legislative branches

• The Executive branch only

• The Judicial branch only

• All three branches of government

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United States, signed an executive order changing the status of 3 million blacks in America. It was called the:

• Slavery Decree

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Presidential Decree

• Power Exchange

• African American Law

Which president used an executive order to desegregate the Armed Forces:

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harry Truman

• Lyndon Johnson

William Henry Harrison never issued an executive order because:

• He died in office after only 31 days

• He thought they were unconstitutional

• He worked well with Congress

• He passed close to 300 executive orders

Executive orders can be checked and balanced in the U.S. political system because:

• Congress can pass laws to counteract them

• Judges can deem them unconstitutional

• Citizens can protest against them

• Both A and B

• A, B, and C are true