Taking sides. Clashing views in United States history /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
McGraw-Hill Education Create,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Seventeenth edition. |
| Series: | Taking sides.
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1. The colonial period to reconstruction
- v. 2. Reconstruction to the present.
- v. 1. Is America exceptional?
- Was the Pequot War largely a product of Native American aggression?
- 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 a conservative movement?
- Was the Second Amendment designed to protect an individual's right to own guns?
- Was Alexander Hamilton an economic genius?
- Did the election of 1828 represent a democratic revolt of the people?
- Did educational opportunities for women expand their participation in antebellum society?
- Was antebellum temperance reform motivated primarily by religious moralism?
- Did African American slaves exercise religious autonomy?
- Was the Mexican War an exercise in American imperialism
- 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?
- v. 2. Did reconstruction fail as a result of racism?
- Did a "New South" emerge following reconstruction?
- Were nineteenth-century entrepreneurs "Robber Barons"?
- Were anarchists responsible for the Haymarket Riot?
- Were late nineteenth-century immigrants "Uprooted"?
- Did women adapt favorably to life in the American west in the late nineteenth century?
- Did the Progressives succeed?
- Was Woodrow Wilson responsible for the failure of the United States to join the League of Nations?
- Was the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s a mainstream organization?
- Did the new deal prolong the great depression?
- Was the World War II era a watershed for the civil rights movement?
- Was president Truman responsible for the cold war?
- Was rock and roll responsible for dismantling America's traditional family, sexual, and racial customs in the 1950s and 1960s?
- Did president John F. Kennedy cause the Cuban missile crisis?
- Did southern white Christians actively support efforts to maintain racial segregation?
- Did president Nixon negotiate a "Peace with Honor" in Vietnam in 1973?
- Has the women's movement of the 1970s failed to liberate American women?
- Were the 1980s a decade of affluence for the middle class?