1. How Many Electoral Votes Are Needed to Win a Presidential Election? What Happens If

Chapter 7 Worksheet

Section 1

1. How many electoral votes are needed to win a presidential election? What happens if

no candidate reaches this number?

2. How many electors are part of the electoral college?

3. How many terms was Franklin Roosevelt elected to? What amendment now limits a

president to two terms?

4. How often do presidential elections take place?

5. What are the three qualifications of the president?

6. What branch of government is headed by the President?

7. What is meant by the “Winner Take All” system?

8. What is the president’s salary?

9. Who was the first Catholic president?

10. Who was the first female vice-presidential candidate?

11. Who was the first president of the United States?

12. Who was the first president to die in office?

Section 2

13. How many cabinet departments are part of the executive branch?

14. What is a reprieve?

15. What is an executive order?

16. What is the main job of the president?

17. What law was passed to limit the president’s use of the military?

18. What term means forgiveness from punishment?

19. Who has the power to declare war? How many times has this occurred?

Section 3

20. How can the president bypass Senate approval of a treaty?

21. List four other parts of the defense bureaucracy.

22. What does trade help to create within a country?

23. What is a nation’s plan for dealing with other nations?

24. What is a treaty? Who must approve them?

25. What is an embargo?

26. What is an official representative of a country’s government?

27. What is the primary goal of American foreign policy?

Section 4

28. How are government corporations different from private corporations?

29. What do we call all of the agencies and employees of the executive branch?

30. What do we call the head of the department of Justice? What title is given to the

heads of all other departments?

31. What group gathers information about the governments of other countries?

32. What group prepares the federal budget?

33. What president created the Executive Office of the President (EOP)?

34. What was the spoils system? What event led to the end of it?

35. Who is the most powerful person in the White House Office?