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.

U.S. war posters highlight worries about food shortages and prompt people to avoid wasting anything.

In order to sever all ties with Great Britain, Congress approves the Declaration of Independence.

At fifteen, Marie Antoinette leaves her home in Vienna and marries Louis-Auguste of France in a large wedding at the Palace of Versailles.

Even though the American public may not approve, this does not mean the one in power is wrong.

Throughout United States history we express our frustrations and pride in our country through the media.

Top-secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam leads to many federal-government lies being exposed.

An explanation of what the Executive Branch is and what it does.

Pvt. Joseph McDonald receives the radar message from Opana Point but cannot get anyone to believe him about the incoming Japanese planes until it is t...

Jim Crow Laws, named after a character in a minstrel show, become a synonym for legal segregation.

In 1920, the 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony died before that happened.

Susan continues to fight for women's suffrage until she dies aged 86, fourteen years before passage of 19th Amendment in 1920.

South Carolina History Standard 8-5.3 Successes and Failures of Reconstruction in South Carolina

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