Author Kevin O’Reilly—an experienced, award-winning teacher—has students tackle fascinating historical questions that put them in the shoes of a range of people from the past, from the rich and famous to ordinary citizens.
Example questions: Why did 16th-century Europeans assume the Yucatan’s stone temples were Egyptian? What were the three major compromises of the 1787 Constitutional Convention? How did the depression of the 1870s affect Reconstruction? Other questions involve true/false responses, matching, or ranking events in chronological order.
DBQ: Did the Progressives want a more just society? Or did they simply want one that was more efficient, better managed, and run by a "better" sort of leadership?
DBQ: "Women won the vote because by the early 1900s their independent roles in public life made it clear that they were already active as citizens and deserved to vote.
DBQ: "The Great Depression lasted a decade while New Deal program after program failed to do anything to end it.
DBQ: Did the war with Japan justify any of the fears that led to the internment of 112,000 people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast in 1942? Why or why not?
DBQ: "The war against German and Japanese militarism changed America in many ways, largely for the good.
DBQ: "Despite McCarthy’s excesses, America in those years did face great dangers from communism, both internally and externally.
DBQ: King was highly critical of Stokely Carmichael and other "Black Power" advocates.
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