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The White House: Our Government WebsiteThe White House: Our Government Website
Publisher
The White House
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Websites
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Lexile Measures
1210L
Language
English, Spanish
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The White House: Our Government

Curated by ACT

Overviews of the major elements of U.S. government, compiled and published by the White House: three branches of the federal government (executive, legislative, judicial), the Constitution, federal agencies and commissions, elections and voting, and state and local governments.

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elections, local government, state government, voting

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executive branch, federal agencies, federal government, judicial branch, legislative branch, separation of powers, american government, u.s. government, white house, white house: our government

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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