DEBATING THE DOCUMENTS: U.S. History

DEBATING THE DOCUMENTS: U.S. History


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From the Pilgrims to post-9/11 America, students explore history through primary sources, structured debates, and DBQs that sharpen their analysis, writing, and understanding of multiple perspectives.

COMPLETE SET
The complete set includes the Colonial America–Civil War set (24 units) and the Gilded Age–Early 2000s set (27 units), totaling 51 reproducible units and 2 guides that immerse students in the debates, dilemmas, and developments that shaped the United States.

Each reproducible unit features:

  • Two groups of documents with differing perspectives
  • Six worksheets—two interpretive and one comparative for each document group
  • A background essay, teacher introduction, and student directions
  • Two DBQs with writing guidance and a DBQ scoring guide

Each guide also includes three whole-class debates and reproducible student handouts to support analysis and argumentation in a collaborative setting.

Perfect for DBQ practice, primary source analysis, and structured classroom discussion, this series builds students’ ability to form and defend evidence-based historical arguments while exploring the tensions and turning points of U.S. history.

COLONIAL AMERICA–CIVIL WAR SET
This set includes the following 24 units and a guide. Downloadable set available too.

  • THE PILGRIMS: Image and Reality
  • BANISHED: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Crisis
  • SLAVERY AND VIRGINIA’S ENLIGHTENED ARISTOCRACY
  • THE COVENANT CHAIN: The Iroquois and Colonial America
  • BEN FRANKLIN: A New American Identity?
  • LOYALISTS AND PATRIOTS
  • WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS: The Meaning of the Declaration
  • WHAT DID THE GREAT AWAKENING AWAKEN?
  • THE “GRAND COMPROMISE” AND THE MAKING OF THE CONSTITUTION
  • JOHN MARSHALL’S COURT
  • “A KNACK AT CONTRIVING”: Why Americans Invented Things
  • HENRY CLAY’S AMERICAN SYSTEM
  • THE MONROE DOCTRINE: Was It Necessary?
  • THE LOWELL EXPERIENCE
  • JACKSON AND THE INDIANS
  • REVIVALISTS AND UTOPIANS: Reform in Antebellum America
  • THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
  • CALHOUN VS. THE ABOLITIONISTS
  • THE WAR WITH MEXICO
  • UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
  • “BLEEDING KANSAS”: A Failure of Compromise
  • WAS JOHN BROWN A HERO?
  • BLUE OR GRAY: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
  • THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

GILDED AGE–EARLY 2000s SET
This set includes the following 27 units and a guide. Downloadable set available too.

  • THE IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON
  • ROCKEFELLER: Monster Monopolist or Marketplace Hero?
  • ARRIVAL: The Immigrant and the City
  • THE HAYMARKET SQUARE RIOT
  • WHY RECONSTRUCTION FAILED
  • DEMOCRACY & THE RAILROADS: Friends or Foes?
  • THE WEST: Paradise, or Paradise Lost?
  • WHY FIGHT FOR CUBA?
  • BRYAN’S CROSS OF GOLD
  • HOW “PROGRESSIVE” WAS PROGRESSIVISM?
  • WHY WOMEN WON THE VOTE
  • SHOULD WILSON HAVE KEPT US OUT OF WAR?
  • THE FIRST “RED SCARE”
  • THE SCOPES TRIAL
  • THE NEW DEAL: DID IT WORK?
  • AMERICA FIRST: ISOLATIONISM AND WORLD WAR II
  • THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT: Bigotry or Security?
  • HOW THE WAR CHANGED AMERICA
  • 1945: THE POST-WAR MOOD
  • ANTI-COMMUNISM: Mass Hysteria or Reasonable Fear?
  • MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND THE “BLACK POWER” DEBATE
  • TET: Victory or Defeat?
  • PLURIBUS AND UNUM: The Diversity Debate
  • IDEALS AND VIOLENCE: The Sixties Youth Rebellion
  • THE NEW FEMINISM AND ITS CRITICS
  • REAGAN AND THE FALL OF COMMUNISM
  • SUBURBIA: American Dream or Stifling Dead-End?
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Copyright

2004–07
Publisher

MindSparks
Grade

7–12

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