Foundations in Social Studies Vocabulary

The study of past events.

• evidence

• history

• timeline

• place

A person that studies the events of the past.

• movement

• geography

• historian

• location

Proof that something happened or is true.

• geography

• timeline

• evidence

• cause

Information from someone who witnessed an event.

• primary sources

• geography

• cause

• movement

Information from someone who did NOT witness an event.

• place

• secondary sources

• timeline

• historian

A sequence of events in the order that they happened.

• physical characteristics

• primary source

• point of view

• chronological order

A diagram listing important events within a particular historical period.

• history

• timeline

• evidence

• place

The way someone looks at an issue, an event, or a person.

• point of view

• chronological order

• human characteristics

• historian

An event or an action that makes something else happen.

• cause

• geography

• place

• evidence

An event or an action that is the result of something else happening.

• effect

• place

• region

• movement