Explain the purpose of the state executive branch and give four examples of the jobs they perform. what do you believe
is their most important function? why?

To be the figurehead of the state and provide a duty to ones state in the form of foreign affairs, military commandment, as well as be a branch to keep the other two branches of the government balanced in political equilibrium.  

Explanation:

Being the figurehead of the state is the most important because the executive provides a person and a personification of ones country to look up to hold responsible for it's actions. As well as rely on in times of hardship.

dirty, contaminated water

contaminated food,

chlostrophobic living spaces,

mice infestation,

etc,

union blockade

explanation:

the union blockade in the american civil war was a naval strategy by the united states to prevent the confederacy from trading.

the blockade was proclaimed by president abraham lincoln in april 1861, and required the monitoring of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of atlantic and gulf coastline, including 12 major ports, notably new orleans and mobile. those blockade runners fast enough to evade the union navy could only carry a small fraction of the supplies needed. they were operated largely by british citizens, making use of neutral ports such as havana, nassau and bermuda. the union commissioned around 500 ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war.