DIRECTIONS: The below passage describes how one historian prefers to see the history of the United States written. Use the passage to help you answer Question 19. I would prefer to try to tell the story of the discovery of America from the standpoint of the slaves, of Andrew Jackson as seen by the Cherokees... of the rise of industrialism as seen by the young women in the Lowell textile mills... the Gilded Age as seen by southern farmers... the New Deal as seen by blacks in Harlem... the postwar American empire as seen by peons in Latin American..... Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States 1980 How might the topic you selected be interpreted from two different perspectives? Explain how the two perspectives would lead to different historical interpretations of the topic.
