Critical Thinking Essay Questions – 1850s-1890s (ebook)

Challenge your students to go deeper into their study of the late 1800s with these critical thinking essay questions on twenty-five important events. A short overview of each event is given as well as essay questions to encourage reflection. Bonus questions about the entire 50-year periods as well as notebooking pages are also included.

Students take a look at the following events:

• David Livingstone
• The Crimean War
• The Great Exhibition of 1851
• The Suez Canal
• Factors Leading to the American Civil War
• The Māori in New Zealand
• Advancements in Chemistry
• Canadian Confederation and the Sale of Alaska
• The South-to-North Race Across Australia
• The United States Transcontinental Railroad and the Suez Canal
• Montreal Bread Riots
• The Telephone
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Otto von Bismarck and the German Confederation
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Krakatoa Erupts
• Johnstown Flood
• The Orient Express Makes Its First Run
• 1884 Berlin Conference
• The First Mechanical Dishwasher is Invented
• Corinth Canal
• The 1890 U.S. Census
• The Modern Olympics
• Klondike Gold Rush
• Depression of the 1890s in Australia

As they read the short overviews and conduct their own research, they are almost certain to discover some parts of history they have never explored before! Click to see a preview.

Also works great with Sonlight, The Mystery of History, Beautiful Feet, and TruthQuest History. Click for details.