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Taking sides

Clashing views in U.S. history : The colonial period to reconstruction

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An edition of Taking sides (2006)

Taking sides

Clashing views in U.S. history : The colonial period to reconstruction

Sixteenth edition.
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[This book] is a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to controversies in world history. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading historians and commentators on world history, reflect a variety of viewpoints and have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate framework ... By requiring students to analyze opposing viewpoints and reach considered judgments, [this book] develops students' critical thinking skills.-Back cover.

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Pages
264

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Taking sides: Clashing views in U.S. history : The colonial period to reconstruction
2014, Mcgraw-Hill Education Create
in English - Sixteenth edition.
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views in United States History, Volume 2 (Reconstruction to the Present)
September 27, 2006, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, McGraw Hill Contemporary Learning Series
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Table of Contents

Is America exceptional?
Was conflict between Europeans and Native Americans inevitable?
Was the Colonial Period a "golden age" for women in America?
Were socioeconomic tensions responsible for the witchcraft hysteria in Salem?
Was there a great awakening in mid-eighteenth-century America?
Was the American revolution largely a product of market-driven consumer forces?
Was the Second Amendment designed to protect an individual's right to own guns?
Was President Jefferson a political compromiser?
Did the election of 1828 represent a democratic revolt of the people?
Did the Industrial Revolution provide more economic opportunities for women in the 1830s?
Was antebellum temperance reform motivated primarily by religious moralism?
Was the Mexican War an exercise in American imperialism?
Was John Brown an irrational terrorist?
Was the Civil War fought over slavery?
Are historians wrong to consider the war between the States a "total war"?
Was Abraham Lincoln America's greatest president?
Did Reconstruction fail as a result of racism?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
New York]
Series
Taking sides, Taking sides
Other Titles
Clashing views in United States history, United States history, Colonial period to reconstruction
Copyright Date
2014

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Dewey Decimal Class
973
Library of Congress
E178.6 .T35 2014 v.1

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Pagination
iii, 264 pages
Number of pages
264

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Open Library
OL37049790M
Internet Archive
takingsidesclash0000unse_z2d0
ISBN 10
1259217078
ISBN 13
9781259217074
OCLC/WorldCat
875351857

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