In this lesson, you will read excerpts from two high school history textbooks written from very different time periods. As you read the documents, complete this chart.
Two Textbooks
Write responses to each question in the chart.
Excerpt 1 1
It was published in 1911
Excerpt 2
It was published in 1995
When was this textbook
published?
According to this source, why did
the war start?
How do the texts describe the
Mexicans?
Whom do the author's blame for
the outbreak of hostilities?
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john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.

abraham lincoln

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it provided for equal trade rights among nations in china.