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SS236 People, Power, and Politics - An Introduction to American Government

Unit 3 Quiz   

Question 1          Under the Articles of Confederation,

there were three branches of government.

there was no executive branch.

there were eighteen presidents with significant authority.

George Washington served temporarily as president.

the national government was supreme over the states.

Question 2          Removal of the president from office requires

a two-thirds vote in the House.

a simple majority in the House.

a two-thirds vote in the Senate.

a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress.

a three-fourths vote in the Senate.

Question 3          Agreements that the president concludes with foreign nations that do not require the advice and consent of the Senate are called

executive protocols.

executive orders.

treaties.

covenants.

executive agreements.

Question 4          White House staffers

are confirmed by the Senate, like all presidential appointees.

derive their power from personal relationships with the president.

number over 1,000.

are often former members of Congress.

possess independent legal authority.

Question 5          The first president to send a legislative package to Congress was

George Washington.

Abraham Lincoln.

Woodrow Wilson.

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Harry S Truman.

Question 6          The Pendleton Act established the principle of ________ in federal hiring.

patronage

merit

civility

partisanship

gender equality

Question 7          The ratification of the ________ Amendment in 1913 gave Congress the authority to implement a federal income tax, and thus allowed government to grow even more.

Tenth

Eleventh

Twelfth

Sixteenth

Nineteenth

Question 8          All Cabinet departments are headed by a secretary except for the Department of

Defense.

State.

Commerce.

Veterans Affairs.

Justice.

Question 9          The Environmental Protection Agency is a/an

independent regulatory agency.

independent executive agency.

government corporation.

Cabinet department.

iron triangle.

Question 10        The law enacted in 1939 to prohibit federal employees from becoming directly involved in political campaigns was called the

Campaign Reform Act.

Federal Employees Political Activities Act.

Pendleton Act.

Taft-Hartley Act.

Hatch Act.