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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
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Gillon argues that the Puritans massacre of a Pequot village during the Pequot War in 1637 set several kinds of precedents. How and why?
What made the Articles of Confederation as “truly dysfunctional”? How did the various groups attempting to fix the problem approach it?
Discuss some of the effects that the gold rush had on the United States. What negative impacts did it have? Positive impacts? Which outweighs the other and why?
Explain the importance of the Battle of Antietam as it relates to the Emancipation Proclamation.
Discuss why the outcome of the Homestead Strike in 1892 was significant for labor-management relations over the next few decades.
Explain why the transition from President McKinley to President Theodore Roosevelt had such a tremendous impact on American domestic and foreign policies.
Discuss why Gillon describes the Scopes trial and Dayton, Tennessee as the “new battleground in America’s first culture war.”
Why did Einstein and Szilard and so many other scientists who contributed to the Manhattan Project later regret their involvement?
In what ways did Elvis Presley help to create a new culture in America?
Why did the organizers of the Freedom Summer voting rights campaign decided to invite white civil rights advocates from the North to participate? How did this decision affect the course of the civil rights movement?
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