Executive Branch of Government
for Kids
For Kids
The government of the United States is composed of three branches - the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch.
The executive branch sees that laws are carried out. The President of the United States is the head of the executive branch. The President is assisted by the Vice President. The president is the commander in chief of the armed forces. The president, with the approval of Congress, appoints cabinet members, each of whom is the head of an important department in government, including the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Labor, Commerce, Defense, Agriculture, the Interior, Health & Education & Welfare, the Attorney General and the Postmaster General. The president, again with the approval of Congress, appoints ambassadors to foreign countries, judges for the Federal court, and even members of special committees.
Executive Branch games & activities for kids
Take the Quiz, interactive (with answers)
Checks and Balances as provided by the Constitution
Free Interactive Online Games - flash games have been removed
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Creating a New Nation
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- The 13 Colonies
- Road to Revolution
- The American Revolution
Creating a New Government
Western Expansion
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- Louisiana Purchase
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- Gold Rush
Brink of the Storm and the Civil War
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- The Industrial Revolution
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- People of the Civil War - Lincoln, Davis, Grant, Lee, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Dred Scott and more
- 13th Amendment ending slavery forever
- Reconstruction, Carpetbaggers & Scalawags
- 14th & 15th Amendments
Growth in the West
The Nation Grows
World War I, The Great War
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The Great Depression
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Slavery in America
Segregation for Kids - Civil Rights
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