U.S. Departments
Manages the nations highways, railroads, airlines, and sea traffic
What is the Department of Transportation?
This Department's mission is to encourage homeownership
What is the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)?
Collects, borrows, spends, and coins money
What is the Treasury Department?
Oversees retirement, disability, and survivor benefits
What is the Social Security Administration?
Final Jeopardy!
Article II, Section 2
Under Article II, section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the President has the Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in __________________?
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The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) replaced this agency in 1953
This department provides support for those who served in the military
What is the Department of Veterans' Affairs?
Deals with working conditions and wages of U.S. workers
What is the Department of Labor?
Regulates the stock market by ensuring that stock prices do not become too inflated, while also monitoring illagal activity like insider trading
What is the Security Exchange Commission (SEC)?
Who was the tallest President?
Who is the Abraham Lincoln?
Responsible for resolving issues related to the legacy of nuclear and radioactive materials left over from the Cold War
What is the Department of Energy?
The Attorney General is the head of this department
What is the Department of Justice?
This Department is charge of subsidy programs
What is the Department of Agriculture?
This organization that delivers mail, has the characteristics of a private business as well as a government agency
What is the United States Postal Service (USPS)?
The group that advises and discusses with the President on matters of National Security
What is the National Security Council?
In charge of National parks and forests
What is the Department of Interior?
In 2002, this was the last Department to be established
What is the Department of Homeland Security
The FBI falls under this Executive Department
What is the Department of Justice?
Enforces guidelines regarding pesticides, pollution, and toxic dump sites
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
President Obama concluded the Iran Nuclear Agreement in 2015. In 2018 this President withdrew the U.S. from the agreement with Iran, saying it had failed to protect American security interests
Who is President Donald J. Trump?
The first U.S. department to be created
What is the Department of State?
In fiscal 2015, this Department had a budget of $495.6 billion, or about one-eighth of total federal budget
What is the Department of Defense?
Works to prevent other countries form violating trade agreements, before they hurt American businesses
What is the Department of Commerce?
Enforces standards, recalls, hazard products, while instructing people on what they should do in response to such hazards
What is the Consumer Product Safety Commission?
President's role of receiving foreign leaders. An example would be when Jimmy Carter hosted the Camp David Accords between the leaders of Israel and Egypt.
What is the Head of State?