Reconstruction to Progressivism 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: 0-89455-916-8
Activities: 27
Pages: 208

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


• Fourteenth Amendment
• How Corrupt Were Reconstruction Governments?
• To What Extent Was Reconstruction a Tragic Era?
• Should the Government Role Be "Laissez-faire" or "the General Welfare State"?
• John D. Rockefeller and the Oil Business
• What Were Conditions Like in the Meat-packing Industry?
• How Accurate is The Jungle in Describing the Meat-packing Industry?
• What Brought about the Progressive Movement?
• What Were American Cities Like in the Late 1800s?
• Should the United States Restrict Immigration?
• What Does the Omaha Platform Show about the Populists?

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.