Government Chapters

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.

Hitler's "final solution" is to erase the Jewish race in Europe by gassing them in concentration camps.

The Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh rallies the Vietnamese people and beats the French.

Despite half a million dead and injured and a 1953 Armistice, Korea remains divided.

Children help out by rationing, recycling, and helping to support their families.

After the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution becomes effective, in 1868, many people believe it does not give women the right to vote. Susan B. A...

Anthony illegally votes in 1872 election. Political cartoons of the time, and later, scoffed at "woman suffrage."

Carl Brashear is born in 1931 to sharecropping parents, who live in Kentucky during the time of restrictive "Jim Crow Laws."

Packard's husband tries to send her away without any money or her children.

Following FDR's Executive Order 9066, ten internment camps, located in seven states, received Japanese-American evacuees.

Hines' photographs allow us to travel back in time to view images of children working in canneries.

Hines photographs young children working in adult jobs in mills.

Lewis Hines takes pictures of children working in dangerous American mines.

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