Civil Rights Chapters

Are people born free? Do governments give rights to citizens or do citizens give-up some rights in exchange for good government? These are stories about people seeking and achieving their civil rights.

Germans force Jewish families to leave the Warsaw Ghetto on trains to a concentration camp.

8-4.1 Importance of agriculture in antebellum South Carolina

Dwellings are destroyed to ensure that the homeless of Ireland have no place to go.

Wallace is dragged through the city, tortured, hanged, beheaded, drawn, and quartered.

75 years ago - on 19 Feb 1942 - FDR signs Executive Order 9066 allowing military action against Japanese-American citizens.

Three strokes of the axe take Marys head, and Elizabeth guarantees there are no relics and no proper burial.

Evidence of the horrendous events and deaths that occur in labor camps comes from those who spent time in GULAGs.

"Conductors" are people who lead the slaves to safety; some include runaway slaves such as Harriet Tubman.

Most of the numerous women, such as Susan B. Anthony, who fight for women's rights never see victory.

FDR wants the Supreme Court to agree with all his social policies, so he proposes increasing the number of Justices. Cartoonists bring this court-pack...

Chapter 4

After Hitler's suicide, the war in Europe was over. During the final days of the Third Rheich, Nazis continued to harm concentration-camp victims, for...

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