The executive branch is apart of the three primary parts of the U.S government (in addition to the judiciary and legislative branch). The executive branch executes and performs the nation's laws. The chief of the executive branch is the president of the United States. Other members include the entire cabinet and the vice president. The vice president acts as support for the president, giving him advice too, and prepares to take on the roles of the president if the president must stop serving.
Washington had nothing to gain from the American Revolution, at least in a material sense. He had achieved both wealth and fame as a British subject in colonial Virginia. Yet he was among the first to raise the possibility of armed resistance and accepted command of the Continental Army. He served for the eight and a half years of the Revolution without pay. Though his army was inexperienced, often outnumbered, and poorly supplied, Washington was able to avoid defeat, wear down the British forces, and eventually achieve victory. With independence secured in 1783 by a peace treaty with Britain, Washington appeared before Congress and publicly resigned his military position, returning to Mount Vernon a private citizen of the new nation. His plantation had suffered greatly during his absence and the war.
Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was possible British recognition of the Confederacy In 1861, the Union went to war with the Confederacy primarily to preserve the Union.
