[1 Point] (Question 1): Which statement BEST explains how congress uses its power of the purse to facilitate oversight of executive departments?
Answer 2B: By providing or withholding money from executive departments and agencies.
[1 Point] (Question 2): How did the constitution prevent the issue of taxation without representation?
Answer 2B: By putting the House of Representatives in charge of the allocation of the government funding.
[1 Point] (Question 3): Choose the answer that describes the concept of the bully pulpit.
Answer 2B: The president's use of the chief executive position to dominate an issue with the public and shape public opinion.
[1 Point] (Question 4): Choose the answer that identifies a historical example of a president using the Bully Pulpit.
Answer 3C: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's use of the fireside chats to achieve passage of legislation easing the Great Depression.
[1 Point] (Question 5): Choose the answer that BEST explains how historians would characterize the use of executive orders for the first 100 years of American presidential history.
Answer 2B: For the first 100 years of American history, despite significant societal changes, presidents deferred to congressional lawmaking to adapt to change.
[1 Point] (Question 1): Which statement BEST explains how congress uses its power of the pure to facilitate oversight of executive departments?
Answer 1A: By withholding all money from executive departments and agencies.
Answer 2B: By providing or withholding money from executive departments and agencies.
Answer 3C: By approving presidential budget requests.
Answer 4D: By deciding whether taxes will be raised.
[1 Point] (Question 2): How did the constitution prevent the issue of taxation without representation?
Answer 1A: By setting aside funds specifically for executive departments and agencies.
Answer 2B: By putting the House of Representatives in charge of the allocation of the government funding.
Answer 3B: By having a set budget and never changing it.
Answer 4D: By allowing citizens to vote directly on how to fund the government.
[1 Point] (Question 3): Choose the answer that describes the concept of the bully pulpit.
Answer 1A: The constitutional powers of the president to address the public.
Answer 2B: The president's use of the chief executive position to dominate an issue with the public and shape a public opinion.
Answer 3C: Congressional efforts to pressure the president to sign legislation.
Answer 4D: The use of the White House as a place of worship to preach to the American People.
[1 Point] (Question 4): Choose the answer that identifies a historical example of a president using the Bully Pulpit.
Answer 1A: President Lincoln's issue of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Answer 2B: President Trump's veto of the 2020 Fiscal Year Defense Bill.
Answer 3C: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's use of the fireside chats to achieve passage of legislation easing the Great Depression.
Answer 4D: President Lyndon Johnson's use of the personal appeals to Congress to pass Great Society legislation.
[1 Point] (Question 5): Choose the answer that BEST explains how historians would characterize the use of executive orders for the first 100 years of American presidential history.
Answer 1A: There were significant changes, such as the Second Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression, and Congress was unwilling to act.
Answer 2B: For the first 100 years of American history, despite significant societal changes, presidents deferred to congressional lawmaking to adapt to change.
Answer 3C: There was very little change in the first 100 years of American History, making the need for executive orders very small.
Answer 4D: For the first 100 years of American History, presidential employment of executive orders was the highest in American History.
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