SSCG10 Vocabulary Quiz

(a)   is comprised of electors from each state. Each state has as many electors as the number of House of Representative members plus Senators representing that state. The electors are expected to choose the candidates for President and Vice President who receive the most popular votes.

In this role, the President has direct and immediate control over all of the troops and nation’s military arsenal.

• Commander in Chief

• Commander

• Chief Diplomat

• Chief Executive

In this role, the President supervises the executive branch of government, prepares the executive budget, and appoints and removes executive officials.

• Chief Executive

• Chief Economic Leader

• Executive Branch

• Commander in Chief

Ratified in 1804 and provides for the election of the President and the Vice President by the Electoral College.

• 12th Amendment

• 25th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

The term for how a Presidential vacancy is filled. 

• Presidential Succession

• Elected

• Appointed

• Impeachment

Sets the dates at which federally elected offices end and identifies who succeeds the President if he or she dies.

• 20th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• 25th Amendment

Ratified in 1951 and addresses limits on presidential terms; ensures that no one person be elected to more than two four-year terms as President of the United States.

• 22nd Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

The President’s role as this includes: scheduling the agenda for the State of the Union address, determining policy initiatives of the government, and deciding which laws Congress should prioritize.

• Chief Legislator

• Chief Executive

• Biden's Law

• Chief of State

Ratified in 1967 and addresses presidential succession in more detail. This amendment allows for the Vice President to become President in the event of the President’s death, incapacitation, resignation, or impeachment. In the event of temporary presidential disability, this amendment outlines how the President can regain his or her office as President.

• 25th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• Constitution

• President's Law

The President is the ceremonial head of the United States government. He symbolizes all of the American people, American tradition, and ideals.

• Chief of State

• Chief of Party

• Executive Department

• Political Party