Civics_Ch5_webquest3

=**Evaluation**= You should be able to answer the questions below:

1. Do you have to win the popular vote or Electoral vote to win the presidency? 2. How votes are necessary to win? 3. How many total votes are in this system? 4. How do you get that number? 5. How many are from PA? 6. Which body must approve of presidential appointments (judges, cabinet, ambassadors, and treaties)? 7. Why is the president called the Chief Executive? 8. Who is the current president? 9. Where does the president live (building and address)? 10. What is the name of the president's plane? 11. What is the name of the president's vacation spot between PA and MD? 12. What is the age requirement to be president? 13. What is the citizenship requirement to be president? 14. What is the residency requirement to be president? 15. How does the president have a check on congress in the lawmaking process? 16. Why did the Founding Fathers put the Electoral College system into the Constitution? 17, What is meant by the president being Commander-in-Chief? 18. List 2 presidents and their accomplishments.

ANSWERS

1. Electoral 2. 270 (over 50%) 3. 538 4. 435 from Hosue + 100 from Senate + 3 from D.C. 5. 20 6. Senate 7. President must faithfully execute the laws according to the Constitution. 8. Barack Obama 9. White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 10. Air Force One 11. Camp David 12. 35 13. Native born 14. Lived in U.S. for 14 years 15. President must sign a bill for it to become a law. 16. Compromise between election by popular vote and Congress voting. 17. Head of the military 18. Choose 2 from the last section of the web quest

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