Green Mountaineer Online: Government

Does your town have a Town Meeting? Learn more about what happens there now - and what happened at Vermont's first town meetings.

• A Time To Be Heard
• Tything Men, Hog-Reaves, and Fence Viewers

Vermont legislators make important decisions in our State House in Montpelier. Where did they meet before Montpelier became our capital?

• The Great Vermont Statehood Debate
• Mom, There's a Legislator in our Kitchen
• Vermont Government Finds a Home

What do legislators discuss at the State House?

• Your State House, A Guide to the Legislature
• Protecting Vermont's Air, Land and Water
  
• The Serpent on the Sideboard: Prohibition and Temperance in Vermont
• Playing the Odds
  
• The Hermit Thrush: Vermont's State Bird

Two men from Vermont have become President of the United States. Can you name them?

• From Vermont Farm to the White House

Every 10 years, the United States conducts a census. The most recent one was in 2020. How - and when - did the US census begin?

• Counting Heads in 1791: The United States Census in Vermont

In 1777, the Vermont Constitution limited slavery in Vermont. But slavery was legal in the United States. In the mid-1800s, some slaves came to - or through - Vermont for freedom.

• Secret Road To Freedom

Now test your knowledge:

• Political Wordfind