Governments can be constitutional monarchies, dictatorships, federal republics, parliamentary democracies, constitutional republics. More than a system of rules and regulations, they help civilized people to live together peacefully. These stories explore different forms of government.
Days before his murder, President Lincoln recounts a dream he had about his own assassination.
Anthony lives in a Quaker home that believes in equal rights, hard work, and education.
Susan is from a Quaker family that believes men and women had equal standing before God.
South Carolina History Standard 8-5.2 Describe the economic impact of Reconstruction on South Carolina in each of the various social classes
Lawmakers begin to protect working children in the early 1900s with age limits.
General Eisenhower visits many Nazi death camps to document their existence and crimes.
Elizabeth Packard participates in an open-study Bible class where the teacher encourages many points of view.
Mary Tudor names Elizabeth as her successor; Elizabeth becomes Queen at age twenty-five and reigns for nearly 45 years.
Mary tries, unsuccessfully for 19 years, to get help from Elizabeth, who imprisons her.
Her father sends Packard to an insane asylum in Massachusetts when she is 23.
Though the President issues the proclamation, it is not a law and slaveholders in the South, who have left the Union, can (and do) ignore it.
Mary is to marry the sickly son of Henry VIII, but Catholic forces oppose it, resulting in a war.
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