New Republic to Civil War Books-on-CD

New Republic to Civil War
Critical Thinking in United States History
- by Kevin O'Reilly

A thinking approach to learning history. Makes history fresh, relevant, and real!

Grades: 6th - 12th+
Subject: History
ISBN: 0-89455-915-X
Activities: 27
Pages: 200

Student Content with Answer Guide

Critical Thinking in United States History uses fascinating original source documents and discussion-base critical thinking methods to help students evaluate conflicting perspectives of historical events. This process stimulates students' interest in history, improves their historical knowledge, and develops their analytical skills for assessment tests.

Methods

For each lesson, students examine two or more perspectives of an event using analysis and evaluation skills such as identifying types of reasoning and evaluating sources. Through debating historians' evidence, inferences, analogies, and assumptions, students come away with a deeper understanding of specific events. They also learn to examine any historical, or current, event with a more critical mind.

Table of Contents/Skills


• How Did Early Industrialization Change New England Villages?
• What Were the Characteristics of the Ideal Woman in the Early 1800s?
• What Arguments Were Made for and against Women's Rights?
• Was Andrew Jackson a Representative of the Common People?
• How Did Slavery Affect Slaves?
• What Was It Like to Be a Slave?
• What Do Visual Sources Show about Slavery?
• Were Slaves Fed an Adequate Diet?
• Which Side Caused the Firing on Fort Sumter?
• What Do Historians Assume about the Causes of War?
• What Were the Causes of the Civil War?
• The Emancipation Proclamation and England's Involvement in the Civil War
• What Role Did Racism Play in the Civil War and Nineteenth-century America?

Instruction/Answer Guide

Includes objectives, teaching suggestions, focus questions, and answers. Use of the guides is highly recommended.

Book on CD

This Book on CD allows you to install and print the Student book and the Instruction/Answer Guide from your own printer. This book on CD is a useful alternative to photocopying.