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Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum: Ranger History in Brief Form Part 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this historical account of the Texas Rangers, a group of lawmen who fought crime and lawlessness on the Texas frontier in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Lumen Learning: Encroachment and Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
In the latter part of the 1800s, settlers began to ignore treaties when expanding westward. The government followed suit by declaring they would no longer negotiate new treaties, that they had the power to enforce laws on reservation...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science 911: Cop Psychiatrists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate special conflict-resolution training for police officers and new high school programs designed to help resolve conflicts. Work in groups to develop possible solutions to real-life conflicts that have actually occurred at U.S....
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Every Mother's Son (A Lesson for Exploring Police Brutality)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Suggested lesson plan to be used with the P.O.V. documentary "Every Mother's Son" but may be adapted for use without. Students describe examples of police brutality and explore the larger systemic problems related to policing. They also...
Article
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Endowment: China & Intellectual Property Rights [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
In this paper the author argues that China is still weak on enforcing intellectual property laws and that foreign companies should take steps to protect their rights in the Chinese legal system. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Digital History

Digital History: The Whiskey Rebellion [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The Whiskey Rebellion was an early challenge to the new United States government. Read about the importance of whiskey in the back country and the need for the United States to find sources of revenues. This is a story of east vs. west,...
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Justia: Hollingsworth v. Perry

For Students 9th - 10th
The California Supreme Court held that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples violated the California Constitution; state voters then passed a ballot initiative, Proposition 8, amending the state constitution to define marriage as a...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Drugs, Politics, and Culture

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From mind-altering drugs for pleasure to the push for pharmaceutical drugs, while examining this course of history and its effects on the world, take advantage of these resources. Includes PDFs (require Adobe Reader).
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Siteseen

Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Salutary Neglect

For Students 9th - 10th
Salutary neglect was a long-standing British policy in the thirteen colonies which allowed the colonists to flout, or violate, the laws associated with trade. There were no effective enforcement agencies and it was expensive to send...
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Securities and Exchange Commission

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that was established in June 1934 as an independent government agency to enforce federal securities laws to regulate the Stock Market and to prevent fraud.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: Government and Constitution: Branches of Government

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article contains a useful guide to the functions of the three US Branches of Government that make, enforce, or interprets laws.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General George H. Sharpe

For Students 9th - 10th
General Sharpe, born in Kingston, N. Y., February 26th, 1828, was graduated at Rutgers in 1847; studied law at Yale College; was admitted to the bar in 1854, and practiced until he entered the army in 1861 as captain in the Twentieth New...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: St. Louis

For Students 9th - 10th
(1215-1270) French King who married Blanche of Castille. He is known for protecting the French clergy and strictly enforcing laws against blasphemy. He was canonized in1297.

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