Law and Politics Chapters

What the law requires (or allows) is not always fair or just or honorable. Politics is often polarizing. Stories in this collection help us to examine the highs and lows of "the law" over the centuries.

Throughout their ordeal, slave voices show that the human spirit can overcome almost anything.

Slaves are sold as property as though they are animals; many are beaten and families are split up.

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

Illustrations help make learning law, and verifying legal statues, less tedious.

Powerful allies are unable to reunite Edgardo with his parents.

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.

Ireland successfully declares itself free.

8-3.4 Many factors arise to divide a new nation--Federalists and Anti-Federalists

In the early-to-mid 19th century, foreign powers controlled many areas of the Italian Peninsula. This led to revolutionary fervor on the part of Itali...

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