The United States Government has special relationships with some American Indian or Alaskan Native tribes, and they call them Federally recognized tribes. These tribes have natural rights to govern themselves and are able to receive some benefits because …

 The first type of government in America was based mainly on state government. Before the signing of the Constitution, America had been made up of thirteen colonies, which had been ruled by England. Following the Revolutionary War, these colonies …

In this Learning Adventure, we’ll find out who designed the Branches of Government and why they’re so important. In 1787, when the United States was still a new country, a meeting of State delegates gathered to make decisions about how the Government …

The Constitution divided the Government into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. That was an important decision because it gave specific powers to each branch and set up something called checks and balances . Just like the phrase sounds, …

Some subjects have a special vocabulary that we use so we can talk about complex topics in simple ways. In math, some words are addition, fractions, and decimals . We can talk about math without using these words, but it can quickly get confusing. In the …