Laws That Changed History

The right to fair wages for work. The access to clean
air and water. The ability for everyone to vote. The right to seek asylum.
Readers will explore laws that we may take for granted, but whose existence
hasn't always been assured?and may yet be challenged in the future. Unemployment
law and occupational safety laws changed the workplace. The U.S. government has
both protected our natural resources and whittled them away. Readers will learn
how the right to vote was established, and how it continues to be challenged.
These laws changed history, and they continue to do so every day.

• Give
teens the tools to become informed, thoughtful citizens, knowledgeable about
important laws and their history

• Chronologies help readers trace how laws
evolved over time?sometimes steadily, other times in fits and spurts

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Sidebars highlight specific examples and supply extra historical
information

• Illuminates important themes and topics in both civics and
history, such as the section on ?Processes, Rules, and Laws? in the Civics
dimension of the C3 Framework, as well as those on ?Change, Continuity, and
Context? and ?Causation and Argumentation? in its History
dimension