Vocabulary
These are the major organizations within the Executive Departments that aid the president in completing his job.
What are executive departments?
This executive departments ensures that America is safe from terrorists and outside threats.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
This department deals with school policies and student loans.
What is the Department of Education?
Within this role, the president sets the agenda for his party and campaigns on behalf of other people who agree with him.
What is party leader?
This person serves as the president of the Senate.
Who is the Vice-President?
This is the action a president takes when he refused to sign a bill into law.
What is veto?
This department is directly involved with the enforcing of the law. It is headed by the Attorney General.
What is the Justice Department? .
This department commands the military of the United States.
Within this role, the president prepares the annual budget, appoints the chairmen of the Federal Reserve, and ensures that American businesses and workers are being protected.
What is the economic leader?
This person is the second in line to become president if the president is not able to fulfill their duties.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This term refers to the leader of the cabinet departments.
What is Secretary?
This cabinet department provides leadership in food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, and nutrition. It is lead by Sonny Perdue.
What is the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture?
This department deals with America's power needs as well as it's nuclear weapons program.
What is the Department of Energy?
This role of the president involves him representing the needs of the United States to other nations and resolving foreign conflicts.
What is the Chief Diplomat?
What is the Cabinet?
These people believe that the law should be interpreted in a way that ensures the initial meaning of the document is used.
Who are originalists?
This executive department is designed to protect the financial goals and system of the United States. They are also in charge of printing and coining money.
What is the Department of the Treasury?
This department deals with the workforce of America by creating better working conditions and better opportunities for American employees.
What is the Department of Labor?
In this role, the president acts as the leader of the American military.
What is the Commander In Chief?
This is the person who is chosen to run the Senate in the absence of the Vice-President.
Who is the president pro-tempore?
This phrase describes when the president tries to sway the influence of the Supreme Court by appointing a Justice who will make rulings in their favor.
What is tilt?
This department's activities includes research and development, transportation, and influencing transit policy.
What is the Department of Transportation?
This executive manages federal land and conservation efforts.
What is the Department of the Interior?
In this role, the president enforces the law of the United States.
What is the Chief Executive?
This power enables the president to select ambassadors, federal judges, and Supreme Court Justices.
What is the appointment power?