Checks and Balances These questions are based on the information about checks and balances. If the situation described shows one of the checks that Congress has (even if Congress agrees to the action), write yes in the blank provided. If it is not, write no. I. Congress, dominated by the Radical Republicans, passed the Civil Rights Bill in March 1866. Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill, but in April Congress overrode the President's veto and voted the bill into law. 2. President Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1998 and tried on the impeachment charges by the Senate in 1998-99. He was acquitted. 3. Neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives can adjourn a session without consent of the other house. 4. In the 1930s, President Roosevelt wanted to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court so that his New Deal policies would not be declared uncon- stitutional. The Senate defeated a bill that would have given Roosevelt his way. 5. In 1964, relatively early in the Vietnam War, Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution that gave President Johnson almost all of the war-making powers that the Constitution gave to Congress. 6. In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, Congress passed the War Powers Act that limited the amount of time the President could send troops into a foreign coun try without the consent of Congress. 7. After a long and sometimes bitter debate in the Senate, that house confirme the President's appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. 8. Amendment 16 had to be ratified by the states before the federal governm could make people pay income taxes. 9. Henry Cabot Lodge worked very hard to stop the Senate from ratifying Treaty of Versailles that President Wilson had helped to write after World W 10. President Wilson tried to gain public favor for the Treaty of Versailles an League of Nations by making speeches to citizens throughout the United S 11. Electors choose the President after the popular election is held. No sena representative can serve as an elector. 12. Once a year the President appears before a joint session of Congress to speech on the state of the United States and to suggest ideas for laws would like to have Congress pass.

Checks and Balances These questions are based on the information about checks and balances. If the situation described shows one of the checks that Congress has (even if Congress agrees to the action), write yes in the blank provided. If it is not, write no. I. Congress, dominated by the Radical Republicans, passed the Civil Rights Bill in March 1866. Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill, but in April Congress overrode the President's veto and voted the bill into law. 2. President Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1998 and tried on the impeachment charges by the Senate in 1998-99. He was acquitted. 3. Neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives can adjourn a session without consent of the other house. 4. In the 1930s, President Roosevelt wanted to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court so that his New Deal policies would not be declared uncon- stitutional. The Senate defeated a bill that would have given Roosevelt his way. 5. In 1964, relatively early in the Vietnam War, Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution that gave President Johnson almost all of the war-making powers that the Constitution gave to Congress. 6. In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, Congress passed the War Powers Act that limited the amount of time the President could send troops into a foreign coun try without the consent of Congress. 7. After a long and sometimes bitter debate in the Senate, that house confirme the President's appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. 8. Amendment 16 had to be ratified by the states before the federal governm could make people pay income taxes. 9. Henry Cabot Lodge worked very hard to stop the Senate from ratifying Treaty of Versailles that President Wilson had helped to write after World W 10. President Wilson tried to gain public favor for the Treaty of Versailles an League of Nations by making speeches to citizens throughout the United S 11. Electors choose the President after the popular election is held. No sena representative can serve as an elector. 12. Once a year the President appears before a joint session of Congress to speech on the state of the United States and to suggest ideas for laws would like to have Congress pass.