STUDENT TOPICS Issue #1 Was Columbus an Imperialist? Name 1) Patricia Colby 2) Maria Dutt 3) Andrew Gabriel 4) Alfredo Molina 5) Nicholas Pupik 6) Collen Dowds 7) James O'Mara 8) Yvonne Sorgie Position Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes No Issue #2 Was the Colonial period a “Golden Age” for Women in America? CLASS DISCUSSION Issue #3 Were Socioeconomic Tensions Responsible for the Witchcraft Hysteria in Salem? Name 1) Allison Hogeman 2) Nicholas Pupik 3) Andrew Gabriel 4) Sarah Esposito 5) Heather Rose 6) Timothy English 7) Michelle Hendershot 8) David Houle Position Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No Issue #5 Was There a Great Awakening in Mid-Eighteenth-Century America? Name 1) Andrew Hill 2) Carolyn McGinley 3) Collen Filush 4) Stephanie Falcone 5) Position No No Yes Yes Issue #6 Was the American Revolution a Conservative Movement? Name 1) Joseph Fortenbaugh 2) Mitchell Bernett 3) Michael Angel Position No No Yes 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) Andrew Gabriel Nicholas Pupik Erin Haught Jonathan Anisko Joshua Murphy Yes No No Yes Yes Issue #7 Were the Founding Fathers Democratic Reformers? Name 1) James O'Mara 2) Carloyn McGinely 3) Brendon Kur 4) Collen Dowds 5) Robert Cowan 6) Mitchell Bernett 7) Michael Angel 8) Nicholas Pupik Position No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Issue #8 Was Thomas Jefferson Committed to Bringing an End to Chattel Slavery? Name 1) Patrica Colby 2) Erin Haught 3) Allison Hogeman 4) Hathleen Lynch 5) 6) Steven Warnek 7) Matthew Yoder 8) Position No Yes Yes No Yes No Issue #9 Was Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Policy Motivated by Humanitarian Impulses? Name 1) Sarah Esposito 2) Jonathan Anisko 3) Timothy English 4) Brendon Kur 5) 6) 7) Alfredo Molina 8) Heather Rose Position No Yes Yes No No Yes Issue #10 Were the Abolitionists “Unrestrained Fanatics”? Name 1) Matthew Yoder 2) Maria Dutt 3) Daniel Hodorawis 4) Stephanie Falcone 5) Collen Filush 6) Andrew Hill 7) James O'Mara 8) Position Issue #11 Was Slavery Profitable? Name 1) Michael Angel 2) Mitchell Bernett 3) Robert Cowan 4) Daniel Hodorawis 5) David Houle 6) Steven Warnek 7) Chieh Wu 8) Nicholas Mangold Position Issue #12 Was the Mexican War an exercise in American Imperialism? Name 1) Matthew Yoder 2) Alfredo Molina 3) Joseph Fortenbaugh 4) Patricia Colby 5) Collen Filush 6) Andrew Hill 7) James O'Mara 8) Position Issue #13 Did the Westward Movement Transform the Traditional Roles of Women in the MidNineteenth Century? Name 1) 2) Heather Rose 3) Stephanie Falcone 4) Position 5) Sarah Esposito 6) Nicholas Mangold 7) 8) Issue #14 Have Historians Overemphasized the Issue of Slavery as a Cause of the Civil War? Name 1) Carolyn McGinely 2) 3) 4) Allison Hogeman 5) Michelle Hendershot 6) Erin Haught 7) Maria Dutt 8) Daniel Hodorawis Position Issue #15 Is Robert E. Lee Overrated as a General? Name 1) John Anisko 2) Timothy English 3) Michelle Henershot 4) Andrew Hill 5) Kathleen Lynch 6) Joshua Murphy 7) Chieh Wu 8) Position Issue #16 Did Abraham Lincoln Free the Slaves? Name 1) Brendon Kur 2) Tony Landy 3) Nicholas Mangold 4) Steben Warnek 5) Carolyn McGinley 6) Joshua Murphy 7) Kathleen Lynch 8) David Houle Position Issue #17 Was Reconstruction a “Splendid Failure”? Name 1) Collen Filsuh 2) Robert Cowan 3) Collen Dowds 4) Chieh Wu 5) Stephanie Falcone 6) 7) 8) Position