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Every lesson incorporates important decision-making and critical-thinking skills such as evaluating cause-and-effect arguments, recognizing bias, and evaluating analogies, as students learn what happened in history.
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Posted February 16, 2026
Posted March 8, 2026
Did the stock market crash of 1929 cause the Great Depression? Evaluating cause-and-effect.
Posted October 6, 2025
Free Lesson! Why do democracies sometimes fall to autocracies? A survey of 14 countries. Evaluating cause-and-effect.
Posted October 27, 2025
How effective are checks and balances in preventing autocratic takeover?
Posted November 10, 2025
Why did democracy develop in British colonial America? Evaluating causes by analyzing Spanish, French and British island colonies.
Posted November 17, 2025
What were the causes of inflation from 2020 to 2024? Evaluating cause-and-effect against evidence.
Posted December 8, 2025
Create an interpretation of the main underlying causes of the Civil War, based on evidence provided.
Posted January 26, 2026
Will you support welfare reform proposals in 1996? A decision-making activity.
Posted February 16, 2026
SHORT LESSON: (Only 2 pages. Simplified, 10-minute version of the lesson to the left.)
What were the main causes of the 1981 air traffic controllers’ strike?
Which argument makes the strongest cause-and-effect connection about 1840s immigration?
What were the main causes of the 1981 air traffic controllers’ strike?
Posted February 9, 2026
Posted February 23, 2026
Will you support the air traffic controllers’ strike in 1981? A decision-making activity.
Posted March 1, 2026
Will you support the CIA plan to overthrow the Iranian government in 1953? A decision-making activity.