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.

Families live in poverty in holes dug in the Irish bog.

The National Child Labor Committee works for change, but still expects children to hold jobs.

Concentration camp neighbors are forced to view the camps to prove that it happened.

Margaret steps down from her role as Prime Minister, and her husband Denis later dies of cancer.

Louis XVII, age 10, dies from tuberculosis after 2 years in Temple prison.

Madiba, as Mandela is affectionately called, forms a close friendship with Pienaar which lasts until Mandela's death.

Apartheid, a system ofracial segregation in South Africa, ensures blacks cannot vote or travel freely in their own country.

Mandela believes thatarmed resistance-including violence- is the only way to endthe problems caused by apartheid.

In 1994, Mandela becomes South Africa's first black president through a democratic vote.

The words and quotes of Thomas Hobbs show why man feels he has the right to torture others.

African Americans and their allies demonstrate in the nation's capitol

Margaret plans a career in politics after college, and marries Denis Thatcher.

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