多选题 Some recent historians have argued that life in the British colonies in America from approximately 1763 to 1789 was marked by internal conflicts among colonists. {{U}}Inheritors of some of the viewpoints of early twentieth-century Progressive historians such as Beard and Becker, these recent historians have put forward arguments that deserve evaluation.{{/U}}
The kind of conflict most emphasized by these historians is class conflict. Yet with the Revolutionary War dominating these years, how does one distinguish class conflict within that larger conflict? Certainly not by the side a person supported.
The author most likely refers to "historians such as Beard and Becker" in order to:

• A. isolate the two historians whose work is most representative of the viewpoints of Progressive historians.
• B. emphasize the need to find connections between recent historical writing and the work of earlier historians.
• C. make a case for the importance of the views of the Progressive historians concerning eighteenth-century American life.
• D. suggest that Progressive historians were the first to discover the particular internal conflicts in eighteenth-century American life mentioned in the passage.
• E. point out historians whose views of history anticipated some of the views of the recent historians mentioned in the passage.