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Lesson 9-4: Guided Reading Activity
Review QuestionsDirections: Read each main idea. Use your text to supply the details that support or explain eachmain idea.
A. Main Idea: Most presidents have significant influence over the types of laws that are proposed and howthose laws are crafted.
Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.
1.Detail: The president usually describes legislative priorities in the annual ______address to Congress.
2.Detail:The president can suggest legislation, but ______may adopt or reject thoseproposals, and the federal courts can limit the president’s influence by ruling laws ______.
Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.
3.Detail:A president works to influence Congress by drafting and negotiating about legislation andsubmitting a suggested annual ______and economic reports.
4.Detail: The president’s power to ______legislation is an important tool in lawmaking.
5.Detail:If Congress adjourns during the ____ day period in which the president decides to sign orveto a bill, the president can exercise a ______by not signingthe bill.
Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.
6.Detail:Unlike most state governors, the president does not have a ______, which is the power to veto selected items in a bill.
Review Questions
Directions:Read each main idea. Use your text to supply the details that support or explain eachmain idea.
B. Main Idea: The president’s role as chief economic planner has developed over time.
7.Detail: The ______of 1935 gave the president authority toappoint the seven members of the ______and the group’s chairman.
8.Detail: The Employment Act of 1946 created a ______to study the economy and advise the president on domestic and internationaleconomic policies, and requires the president to give an annual economic report to ______.
Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.
9.Detail: The president supervises work on the annual ______, spending months withofficials deciding where to support and where to reduce government programs.
Review Questions
Directions:Read each main idea. Use your text to supply the details that support or explain eachmain idea.
C. Main Idea: The president serves as a leader of his or her political party.
10.Detail:The ______actively supports party members running for office and also selectsthe party’s ______.
Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.
11.Detail: Presidents use ______, or appointment to political office,to reward the people who have helped get him or her elected.
Summary and Reflection
Directions: Summarize the main ideas of this lesson by answering the question below.
12.How has Congress added to the president’s role as chief economic planner over the years?
Answer Key
2.Congress, unconstitutional
3.budget
4.veto
5.10, pocket veto
6.line-item veto
7.Banking Act, Federal Reserve System
8.Council of Economic Advisers, Congress
9.budget
10.president, national chair
11.political patronage
12.During the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Congress was persuaded to create many new socialprograms, regulate banks, and set up the federal agencies to run these programs. This led toAmericans’ expectation that presidents should take a firm hand in directing the nation’s economy.The Banking Act of 1935 gave the president the power to appoint the members and the chairmanof the Federal Reserve System. In 1946 Congress further expanded the economic role of the presidentwith the Employment Act, which requires the president to submit an annual economic report toCongress. The president also prepares an annual budget for the nation, supervising this work andspending many months with budget officials deciding which government programs to support andwhich to cut back.
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