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.

Famine and poverty follow the failed potato crop of 1845.

Kapu means rules and learn how Hawaiians lived with them!

On November 28, 1872 Susan B. Anthony and 13 other women who vote are arrested.

After the arrest, Susan gives speech after speech to tell her story.

To control a near mutiny, the group creates the Mayflower Compact, the first known "American" self-governing document.

Amid worries about a strong central government, one Constitutional writer promises the federal courts will not control too much power.

Mary Dyer defies Puritan authorities and leaves Massachusetts with Hutchinson, but makes the mistake of going back to England.

If there is a threat against American interests in Southeast Asia, are we too cautious to invade North Vietnam?

This group of English citizens break the law by moving and forming their own church in Holland.

Mary is tried and convicted of treason; she is beheaded in 1587 and there are eyewitness accounts of her death.

Learn about Marie Antoinette's royal childhood and see the three palaces where she spends her time.

President Johnson's personal diary entries lack a sense of urgency concerning the alleged second attack in the Gulf of Tonkin on 4 August 1964.

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